The Queue
I would take everything under "Presently" with a grain of salt, if for no other reason than, "Always in motion the future is." Meanwhile, my admiration for Thor Heyerdahl knows (very nearly) no bounds.

I recently recommended Len Deighton's novel Winter: A Berlin Family, 1899-1945 to my mother. The prequel to the Bernard Samson trilogy of trilogies is about far more than espionage, & my mother became enthused as soon as I mentioned the book's multigenerational focus. I've never before recommended a book for my mother's consumption, so her reaction could prove interesting.

Recently
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" from The Arabian Nights
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Thor Heyerdahl, translated by F. H. Lyon, Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

Currently
Matthew Kelly, The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic: How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change the World

Presently
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill ***suspended***
Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Swords of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Synthetic Men of Mars
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Llana of Gathol
Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter of Mars
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights
Richard Price, Clockers