GG, I recommend you try taking a few speed reading courses. I have Evelyn Wood's 7 day speed reading course/book, it's excellent, and teaches you varying levels an techniques to increase your speed and retention. There are quite a few others you can find online for free, let me know if you're interested and I can email/lend some to you. Even if you increase your speed and retention by say only a factor of 2, you'll be able to read a TON more material, and retain and understand it better as well.
Books I've been reading -
Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom series. My ancestors being from the same area as his (Cornwall, I'm a Cornish (last name )) I find his books interesting. I'm reading his Civil war series as well, the StarBuck chronicles.
Like Elfie, I too have been reading the bible, I've never read it cover to cover, and it was a bucket list item that I'm intending to cross off this year.
I've been re reading some chapters out of a variety of Tom Clancy's books, the topics he wrote about and created resonate so well with what's happening today, from airliners used as poor man's guided weapons, the USA having to deal with terrorism on a large scale, the rise of China's military capability, to small infantry units stopping Russian tank column/advances with small shoulder and tripod mounted mobile anti tank missiles (a major theme in Red Storm Rising).
Lastly I've been reading a bunch of non fiction historical books on the BF109 and FW190. I have 2 dozen books in epud/pdf format on these aircraft alone, if anyone is interested in a book list or reading any of these, let me know. Some excellent stuff I've found over the years online.