What should I read if I had nothing to read?

Any book by cormac mccarthy. If you want a quick entertaining read, 'No Country For Old Men', if you want a longer deeper one 'Suttree'.

I must say read Hugo's Les Miserables !

As Rimbaud said "there is a novel which is not a novel, it is a long poem, poesy from start to finish, the greatest poem of our times"