That can be a good thing. I've asked my sister to try sushi, but she never wanted to, although she does eat rice, vegetables, and fish (also raw, like herring and such). One day I invited some family members over for dinner, including her.
I made some Asian dish, with a (fat) roll of sushi per person as an appetizer. I made it a fat one, and sliced it as thin as possible and just served it as if it was some sort of salad. In the dish itself, I used some
nigiri sushi, but didn't tell anyone. I just called it 'fish and rice with salad dressing in an Asian style'. (And no-one noticed it was sushi... at that point, nobody knew. My family is not that Asian-minded with regard to food, except for me.)
In the end I told my sister the appetizer and half of the dish were actually sushi. Since then, we have a sushi shortage in the Netherlands, and my sister is very poor because of addiction treatment she now has to go through. (
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What I'm trying to say is: maybe you can get your husband to read without him realizing it. That sounds strange, but not too much, if you combine it with the short stories barrym suggested above.
Read some of the ones you know your husband would probably like. If he likes boats and history of wars and action movies and such (just an example) then read some naval historical fiction stories. Then ask him about it.
"Hey, I've been reading some stories over here, but some stuff is not really clear to me... do YOU have any idea how these guns are positioned on ships in the 1600's? Do they need to turn the ENTIRE SHIP to aim and fire?"
He'll probably tell you more about it than you'd want to know, because it's a subject that interests him. Do it a few times, with different subjects and stories. Ask rethorical questions, that show that the stories contain stuff he's interested in, such as: "Such a ship can't really be 350 feet long, can it? That would be HUGE for that time."
Leave the reader lying around.
If you're lucky, he'll be interested enough that he thinks: "I have to see what stuff that woman is reading."
Then, two things can happen. He gets hooked... or he gets bored. If he gets hooked, you'll just have to make sure that you have some stuff... eh... lying around... accidentally... that is interesting to him, but slightly longer than short stories (such as a novellette or a novella). If he gets bored, you're out of luck and he'll never read books.
That's what I'd do.
This can also be a good idea
Good luck