Hi, hello.  I'm currently writing a book.  So far I've written a prologue and chapter one.  I have more chapters, but those two are the most critiqued and drafted over.  I really do think you may like it, it's short for now, but it's my belief that you'll want more if you read the whole of what I've written so far.  If you have time to kill and really want to start reading, please give my novel a chance.  Thanks.

It's called: The Maddening Tales of Science.

This is the tag line:

"When an old and almighty being detects a certain creature in the vastness of all reality, this demigod then abducts the creature and tells him stories of how Science made him this way. But why?"

http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/TommKanti/1599523/

The Girl On The Train

I really like Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne.
And the best thing is you can read it for free.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18857/18857-h/18857-h.htm

The iliad and the odyssey, the robert fagles translations if you just refuse to learn ionic greek to read them properly.

Kama Sutra

For someone trying to get into reading books, I think Dan Brown novels (Angels and Demons, Da Vinci Code, Lost Symbol) are a good starting point. The chapters are short, the plot moves along quickly and you learn fun facts as you go along. They do tend to stick to the same formula though so if you read them back to back, it gets repetitive.

Oh wow, didn't expect this many responses. Thank you everyone, and I'll try to get as many of the books you guys recommended :D (hopefully, I necrobump this to say I've read most if not all)

About the genres I like, I'd say history, literature, philosophy, anything involving time travel, physics or science overall, romance and adventures. Oooh, and terror... Specially terror and philosophy. Like I said, almost anything.

Hyperion (just the original, not the series)
World War Z (the book, not the movie)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Enders Game (just the original, not the series)

If you like the dungeons and dragons types of adventures then I recommend the Inheretence Series. The first book is called Eragon.

If you like horror as you said, try reading the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. He was a better writer than Stephen King. I also like H.P. Lovecraft a lot, but he's more of an acquired taste.

Something involving time travel, you say? Try the Time Machine. It's relatively short and brilliant.

Oh, and start reading the James Bond series starting with Casino Royale.