1980s Dad Lit

If you were a dad in the 1980s, you could expect two things for Christmas: a bottle of Old Spice and whatever the latest Michener was. Or Ken Follett. Or Robert Ludlum. In the '90s, it was likely Crichton or Grisham (John, not his brother Kevin, who wrote The Rural Juror and Urban Fervor).

Are there "Dad" books any more? My sense is that:

(a) in general, the population isn't reading as much;

(b) men (outside of this sub) are reading even less than the general public; and

(c) television has taken the place of reading.

If you have a dad whom you could ask: what is he reading? What are any dads reading? Do they have an author from whom they buy the latest book when it's published?

Or is that way of looking at writers "old fashioned," as it were?