What I love to read is a biography.

I started out as a child reading biographies about 9 years old.  I felt then that reading anything but true life was a waste.  As I grew in education, I studied literature to gain my Masters in English, but I loved learning about the author's life more than the work of the author, save Shakespeare, of course.

I read as a child, the Auto-biogaphy and biographies  of George Washington Carver, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and many more.  I then went on to study the lives of authors.

For instance, I found the story of William Wadsworth Longfellow so interesting, in that he had a beard.  The reason for his beard is that he tried to save his wife from a fire, and his face and hands were badly burned.  He grew the beard to cover those burns.

I could go on, but wanted to know if you have any biographies that interest you.  I have so many more, and my students always were more interested in authors lives then their works.  What a joy a biography is to me.