These days the Imam did not have the time to read novels and other such books. However, in bygone days, for instance when he was in Najaf, he would in fact read hundreds of pages of books everyday. He would bring a few novels or books on social issues and read ten pages of this and twenty pages of that book and so forth. He had read most of the famous novels. Now he would read either political or social books such as "A Look at World History", Nehru, or historical books from beginning to the end! What I want to say is that the Imam read these sorts of books.[1]
[1]He had read most of the famous novels: Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini