I've been indulging in Victoriana - Hardy, Trollope, Elliot, Mrs. Gaskell, Conrad.  Also, for the first time, I've succumbed to Henry James and wonder why I did not read him before - quite extraordinary. In fact, the Americans at the turn of the century were better in most respects than their English counterparts - Wharton and Cather are particularly good.

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Other reading: loads of books on AI - and a wonderful dense book by Julie Cohen ('Between Truth and Power').  Zuboff's great book on surveillance capitalism is well worth reading (I came across her 'Age of the Smart Machine' many years ago and thought it was excellent).

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Interspersed with this, when I get a chance, I'm reading Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels - gritty noir tales of a detective in pre- and post-war Berlin. Nothing much has changed - I still need another hundred years or so to get through my current reading list.