The God Delusion is much better but if you don't have time his documentary is not too bad. Root of All Evil pt1 - YouTube

I am currently reading Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America and it's quite entertaining.

Before that I also enjoyed "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" and "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"

I have read a few Douglas Coupland novels recently and enjoyed them - J-Pod - though many dislike it I found it rather amusing.

My favorite novel is probably "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. His Neon Bible is very good and he wrote it at 16.

"The comedy of A Confederacy of Dunces is writ large in and between its many lines: a grand farce of overeducated white trash, corrupt law enforcement, exotic dancing and the nouveau riche in steamy New Orleans. The Pulitzer committee thought highly enough of Toole's comic prowess to give his only novel the Prize posthumously.

Therein lies the tragedy of this huge and hugely funny book: John Kennedy Toole didn't live to see this now-classic novel published. He committed suicide in 1969 at the age of thirty-two. It was his mother who was responsible for bringing his book to public light, pestering the hell out of Walker Percy, who was teaching at Loyola in 1976, to read it until finally that distinguished author relented. In his foreword to A Confederacy of Dunces, Percy laments the body of work lost to the world of literature with the author's death, but rejoices "that this gargantuan tumultuous human tragicomedy is at least made available to a world of readers." A Confederacy of Dunces -- book review