Jazz, blues, shoegaze, indie, old school rap ie grandmaster flash and the furious five, punk, post punk, new wave, a little bit of country and western, orchestral movie soundtracks, and those goodtime oldies.
Long hard road out of hell is a good read even if you don't like Marilyn Manson. Roots Max Cavalera bio is okay. I'm waiting on Scott Ian's autobiography. There's also the choosing death a run down of the history of death metal and grindcore. I read the Swedish death metal one and it wasn't too bad.