My favourite book of all time is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. The reviews I've seen of it online have been quite split - it seems people either love or hate this book. If you are unusually fond of words, you will probably adore it.

Currently I'm reading Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters, which I can definitely say is something everyone should read. It is brilliant, comical, touching, political, provoking. And based on a true story. It's just a really good exploration of what makes human beings the way they are.

I'm also perpetually reading an introduction to biolinguistics, but though it's interesting, it is also fairly complicated. And the book is in my third language, so reading it is going rather slowly.