I'm looking for something good to read.  Any genre: philosophy, fiction, literature, humor, history.  It's all on the table.  What do you recommend?

"Foulcault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco. Covers all of those genre's (and then some). Also it is heavy enough to use as a door stop in a bank vault. 

I don't know if this is a good book. It's called " The Secret History Of The World" by Mark Booth.
 
I'm about halfway through. I disagree with the premise for most of it. Not a solid basis for the reasoning therein. It stretches to make some of the points made. No exaggeration. Makes points out of unfounded theories. Takes some Biblical things way out of context.There is some truth there. Not much. Gives you some of the strange basis behind many secret organizations. Lots of pagan history.
 
It's occult lite. No horns or pentagrams, but the ideas are basically all there. Religion is off limits here, so all I can say is it has helped me confirm why I never went toward it. Explains a lot of the odd stuff going on in our world. Not all of it. Like I said I'm only halfway through. I hope it doesn't get any weirder.
 
You may or may not think it's a good book. I don't know if I'm interested enough to keep reading it.
 

Tom Cox "Twentieth Century Yokel"

Its tagline sums it up pretty well, "a nature book but not quite any you have read before".

Lots of humour, folklore and observation.

Here are a few good ones I've read recently:
 
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: Friends Divided, by Gordon S. Wood
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought, by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides' Trap?, by Graham Allison
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith (requires more patience and concentration than the others)

Mystery Man novels by Colin Bateman.

For fun, I love the Florida-based lunacy from Tim Dorsey (Serge Storms rocks!; former Tampa Bay newspaper reporter)) and Carl Hiassen (especially the Skink books; former Miami newspaper reporter). I would read Dorsey's books in the order they were written. Serge Storms equals Steve Buscemi on acid. Best lunatic character ever!
 
http://www.timdorsey.com/chronology.html
 
https://www.orderofbooks.com/authors/carl-hiassen/

Also, the Key West mysteries ('retired' NY mobster in Florida) by Laurence Shames are excellent!
 
https://www.orderofbooks....thors/laurence-shames/

Thanks guys, these are all good starting places. 
 
Please keep the ideas coming.

TheMaartian
For fun, I love the Florida-based lunacy from Tim Dorsey (Serge Storms rocks!; former Tampa Bay newspaper reporter)) and Carl Hiassen (especially the Skink books; former Miami newspaper reporter).

Interesting ... I was quite a Hiassen fan early on (maybe the first eight or so novels) but his more recent stuff hasn't been as much fun for me.  I will definitely give Mr. Dorsey a try.
 
My recommendation is basic international thriller fare.  I used to read a lot of this type of book but rarely do so anymore.  But I stumbled across the writer Daniel Silva who has a character Gabriel Allon, an ex-Mossad agent who is a world-class restorer of priceless, centuries-old paintings and who gets called back for special assignments all the time because he's just so damned good at the secret agent thing.  Every book so far has been rip-roarin' page-turnin' exciting reading.  Start with The Kill Artist, the first in the series.