Nitegazer
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A fave of mine is Stanislaw Lem - Chaos, Solaris, His Master's Voice... damn near anything he writes is gold. Highly recommended.I read every night before sleep... I go back and forth between regular fiction and sci-fi/fantasy. As I've gotten older I don't go for flashy stuff with lots of action, space battles, dragons, etc.. I find myself looking for well written books with well developed, complex, believable characters and plots. Authors like George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb.
Occasionally I'll do some non-fiction - mostly science related or language/etymology. (You mentioned Bill Bryson - his language books are great... a lot more entertaining than you'd expect).
I've kept a pretty steady pace for many years, so I'm not sure how many hundreds of books I've read.