And how do you guys manage to balance the books you WANT to read and books which you SHOULD read? I haven't really had an issue with this. The books people sug

And how do you guys manage to balance the books you WANT to read and books which you SHOULD read? I haven't really had an issue with this. The books people suggest that I ought to read, especially non-fiction, tend to fall close enough to my curiosity zone that I enjoy reading them. The only "should read" books that I've disliked were ones I read for school, and I haven't had any issues with that since high school (and only a few books I read for high school fit that description). So my question is what kind of books (preferably, non-fiction) do you guys read? Right now, I'm getting towards the end of A History of Western Philosophy, about half way through Gödel, Escher, Bach, and early on in Real World Haskell and Types and Programming Languages. One could make a decent case for categorizing any of them as "should read"; I read them because I want to.