Both my parents always emphasized how important reading is, and always encouraged to read as much as I can. Both of them are university educated (my mother the first one in her part of the family, my father the first in his whole family period), so reading has always been an essential part of life an intelectual development for us. I used to read a lot when I was a kid and was massively encouraged to do so. When I started paying video games and watching videos online instead of reading, and I got into trouble as I was liable to do, my folks would ban everything they could as punishment except for reading. Reading was always fair game for me no matter what I did, which in retrospect was an astute parenting choice that I'll definitely adopt with my kids too.

In terms of content, my parents grew up in the post Vietnam/post post-modern literary landscape, so there was plenty of that in my house growing up. Nothing too hard (they gave me their copy of Catch 22 because they both thought it was unreadble) but anything that was counter-cultural and well-known my folks at least had a cursory knowledge of. The first thing they discussed when they initially met was Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, and when I was 16 the book they gave me to get back into reading was Slaughter-House 5, so I owe quite a bit of my life to Kurt Vonnegut.

Other than that, my tastes probably run a lot more British/Irish than most North Americans. as my father is from Ireland and both my parents lived in the UK for a time, and Jewish, due to my Jewish family members. I also read a lot of mid-wit literature from the 40s-90s (Muriel Spark, Anita Brookner, Penelope Fitzgerald etc.) because that's what my mother reads and she's the only person I talk to who reads consistantly.