There’s no need to berate you with the same knowledge your mother told you over and over again as a child. Let’s all admit: books make you smarter, sharper, and more open-minded. And there’s no shortage of interesting topics to read about, so I am curious: what do you read that keeps your mind in tip-top shape?

Is if Fiction? I am an avid fiction buff. In fact, I wrote my own last fall! (Shameless plug of the day.) And studies show that reading an hour of fiction every night before falling asleep can calm nerves, wire up the right brain that likely doesn’t get much activity in the course of your accounting, data processing, call-taking, plumbing, or electrical work during the day. That rewiring of the right brain can make you better at problem solving and cause you to perform better at your left-brained job the next day.

But maybe it’s Non-Fiction for you. Non-Fiction is by far the biggest selling mega-genre of books. And it’s not a genre at all. There are thousands of genres and topics worth talking about. Books that give great ideas for business, leadership, parenting, and anything else.

If I can offer any advice for keeping yourself well-read and well-rounded, I would ask you to consider both. I have made the practice over the years of reading one fiction book followed by one non-fiction. And I am a connoisseur of them all. I am as avid a Malcolm Gladwell fan as I am of Stephen King’s. I devour anything by John Grisham or Nick Hornby, and I devour just as much from Seth Godin and Henry Cloud.

You may say you don’t have time to read much, and if you are a stay-at-home mom of young kids under the age of five, like my wife (who has material worth reading), then I believe you. But if, like me, you spend a lot of time driving, working, and connecting with clients, not to mention the time with your kids, believe me: there are ways! In fact, you might be shocked to discover I have not read a physical book in almost a year. But, when I turned 19, I became introduced to audiobooks, and my life has never been the same.

So, what are you reading? And what drives you to read it? Share your top picks below!