At the moment I'm reading Cathy Kelly, Past Secrets. Irish writer, maybe henlit is the best description of this, many of her characters are a bit older than those in chicklit as I guess is the intended readership, but then I'm not really a chicken either any more at 37!
Since starting maternity leave I've read the most recent Ian Rankin, which I bought half price in hardback when it came out but have been saving as hardbacks are a bit heavy to trug around when I'm at work (I normally read more on the way to work and at lunchtime than at any other time), a bunch of other crime novels - Liz Evans, John Harvey, Imogen Parker and others - and an account of travelling across the US by Greyhound bus, written by an American who has been settled in London for some years.
My problem is that I don't have nearly enough shelves or anywhere to put more shelves for all my books (there's a huge number) and we've had a lot of redecorating and putting down new flooring and carpet so the multitude of boxes are in different places from where they were, and I get told off if I try to lift stuff up myself. A lot of the crime books I want to read are the next in a series, and for example I might be able to see no 6 but not nos 4 and 5 which I haven't read yet.
I can happily read crime and it doesn't have to be too light and fluffy, but there are books I really wouldn't read in present condition around the place too.