Just finished "High Noon in the Cold War" by Max Frankel, and "One Minute to Midnight" by Michael Dobbs. Both are about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. It's truly frightening to learn just how close we came to getting obliterated back then.
I've been re-reading "Lord of the Rings", by J.R.R. Tolkien. I've got the 50th anniversary single volume edition which is excellent. I've read "The Hobbit" and LOTR quite a few times since early adolescence, I seem to keep coming back to both of them.