I would like to do a kind of poll:
Which books/articles do you read now, which ones are on your reading list?
What would a "desk archeologist" find when digging up your desk?
Some links:
"A Stratigraphic Analysis of Desk Debris","Are we able to think clearly when surrounded by mess, asks Clive James":
Neal Stephenson isn't literature?
(I think I get what you're trying to convey - I have a separate "Evasion" fiction ebook folder myself - but Stephenson doesn't seem bad or shallow enough to me to deserve getting demoted that way)
Neal Stephenson self-identifies as a non-literature writer
Some links: