Not reading any books cover to cover right now, but I've been spending some times with some excellent reference books I've purchased lately. Namely, Eberhard Rossler's The U-Boat: The Evolution and Technical History of German Submarines, John Campbell's Naval Weapons of World War Two, and Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Naval reference books from the 70s and 80s are the best. They're all jammed with detailed diagrams, specifications, and statistics, obscure historical details, rare photographs, and details of prototypes and paper designs. The sheer number of Type XXI offshoots and unbuilt close-cycle designs covered in The U-Boat, for example, is pretty mindblowing.
I'm not saying that good naval reference books aren't published any more (Seaforth has been getting on my good side these last couple years), but you can totally get lost in the classics.
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