Currently reading:

Paolo Bacigalupi - Pump Six
Isaac Asimov - Robot Dreams
Arthur C. Clarke - The Collected Stories

(although I'm rather distracted by the new issues of Interzone and Science Fiction & Fantasy that I got in the mail a week ago or so)

Ordered and waiting to arrive:

Title 1: Letters to a Young Contrarian
Author 1: Christopher Hitchens
ISBN 1: 978-0465030330

Title 2: Beginnings, Middles and Ends
Author 2: Nancy Kress
ISBN 2: 978-0898799057

Title 3: On Writing
Author 3: Stephen King
ISBN 3: 978-0743455961

Am planning on getting at some point in the future:

Strunk Jr. - The Elements of Style

(I really wanted this, but the shop I ordered books from couldn't get it for me... Maybe something to do with the fact that it's a 1918's book, heh)

Spinoza - Ethics

P.G. Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters

George Orwell - 1984

George Orwell - Coming Up for Air

James Joyce - Ulysses

(not too sure about whether I really want to read this one or not, to be honest, but I suppose it is rather important)

Orson Scott Cadre - Ender's Game

Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth

(a nice popular science book on evolution)

Various Authors - King James Bible

(I've been planning to visit my old Catholic middle grade school for some time to get the contacts of my 6th grade English teacher whom I wanted to thank for getting me interested in writing, perhaps I can nag it from them for free)

The Bible and Spinoza - great choices

I'm limited to school books for the moment (I don't read much else anymore, which is a damn shame), but I'd like to get a copy of Rasmussen's version of Tao Te Ching, as well as get around to finally reading Anna Karenina.

I just read Bad Science really intersting, well written book about the bollocks that is nutritionists, 'detox', etc and how the media can't report science stories.

Seneca - Letters from a Stoic should be amazing as well.

Yeah, I've been wanting to read some Russian classics (especially since they're in my native language), but I've always found them so annoyingly down-beat that I gave up on practically every book I've started.

James May - Toy Stories
Isaac Asimov - Robots and Empire

After that will be;
Arthur C. Clark - 2010 Odyssey Two
Ty Drago - Phobos

Got a few comic book hardbacks to get through, too.

Haven't heard of it until now, thanks for pointing it out. Don't think I'll order that one, though.

PS. Good job he did with Nero, that guy.

Speaking about the Bible, this edition looks really compelling:

http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Authorized-James-Version-Apocrypha/dp/0192835254

Currently Reading:

This Time is Different by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
(book chronicling 8 centuries of bank crisises, probably the greatest empirical collection of data on them. Also basically shows a strong strong correlation between govt spending and economic collapse)

I've just started the seventh book (Reaper's Gale) in the series I'm currently reading, The Malazan Book of the Fallen. I've got 8 and 9 sat on my desk waiting for me to finish this one, although that may take a while since they're all pretty meaty volumes, but I should have finished all of them by the time number 10 is out.

I do find it odd how people can read more than one book at a time; I much prefer to focus on one before moving on to another. Which is actually helping with this series because it's incredibly in-depth and I'd probably get easily lost or confused if I read something else in between.

That's a good point, but the 3 books I'm reading now are all short story collections, so it's not really that troublesome. I don't usually read more than 1 novel at a time myself...

Currently reading Telling Lies by Paul Ekman (the guy whose work Lie To Me is based on).

I just finished reading a whole bunch of Charles Stross and Alastair Reynolds books, some good solid hard sci-fi.

I will say that I didn't really rate 1984 that highly, it was entertaining but the way the government worked required such a suspension of disbelief that it ruined my enjoyment of the later parts of the book. Brave New World was better, unfortunately I read with the preconception that the world was as tightly controlled as in 1984 when in fact beyond the caste system everyone had a remarkable amount of freedom - this meant I didn't get into the book as well as I should have.

I just finished reading "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. I'm constantly reading & studying "The Restaurant Manager's Handbook" by Douglas Robert Brown (this is basically the bible for restaurant managers). I'm probably going to start reading "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe tonight.

Ah, that's fair enough. I probably should've assumed from the one book that was actually called "The Collected Stories", but nevermind.

The last novel I've read was T.A. (Tim) Pratt's Blood Engines (an Urban Fantasy book). Was really fun, will probably get the other books in the series at one point or another.

I'm reading Up Jim River by Michael Flynn. As with his last few books, it's a hard read (he uses a lot of big words and complex sentence structures). The story is compelling but I have the feeling he's saving the best for last.

I recently finished Old Man's War and its spawn by John Scalzi. The first one rocked but the next ones, not so much.

I've also recently read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. It was pretty good.

i want to read Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy, and Stupid by Dennis Leary.

Reading book five in the Dark Tower Series: Wolves of the Calla.

I plan on finishing the Dark Tower series and I'm almost done with the Left Behind series. I'm also waiting for the next book in the Fate of the Jedi series.

Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, by Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner.

I read On Writing by Stephen King. Interesting mix of autobiography and writing advice. Not bad.

Currently, the only thing I'm reading is a draft of a novel a friend sent me. I have the first two Discworld books ready to read though. Beyond that, nothing much.

Currently:

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
The Guns of August

I have plenty of reading to do before I need to start thinking about what to read next.

I just read Logicomix, and recommend it to anyone interested in philosophy. It's a graphic novel about arguably the greatest mathematician/philosopher in the 20th century, Bertrand Russell. It's just great.

Wow, Zell, looked up Logicomix, looks great. Will have to check it out.

currently reading: nothing
plan to read (or re-read to be more precise): All Quiet on the Western Front, Notes of a Sniper, Zombie Survival Guide

Currently reading Norwegian Wood by Murakami

bump
any recommendations of books you read earlier?

I don't read books.

Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Taiko-Novel-Glory-Feudal-Japan/dp/4770026099

I have been looking for the third dune book locally, and still haven't found it.

I had a first edition "Children of Dune" hardback but I had to sell it when I got a bit desperate for money a few years back.

To pay for spice debts?

Something like that.

Just finished Johnny Got His Gun

Creepy as hell. Really weirded me out, but I enjoyed it.

Creepy is a good way to put it, that was a really really good book. The original movie is also VERY creepy as well. That book/movie was a major topic of one of my English classes I took last year about the concept of "voice".

I'm currently reading:

Plato- Republic
A Macroeconomics textbook
various translations of the Bible

I will have read by the end of the summer for school:
George Orwell- 1984
Thomas More- Utopia (re-read, though I got lazy last year and skipped a bunch of it, so some of it will be new to me)

By the start of my fall classes I will have read:
Machiavelli- The Prince (re-read, I liked it and my political views have changed a bit since I've read it last)
Sun Tzu- The Art of War (another re-read, but it's short and its a quick and easy read)
Muhammad- The Qu'ran (I'd like to at least buy one and read through a bit of it)

The Koran (Qu'Ran) technically wasn't written by Mohammed, but rather by his followers. Anyways, cool. What are you studying?

Also, did I all ready recommend Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? It's a wonderful blend of virtual reality, sword fighting, and linguistics. It also features Raven, the baddest mother****er in the world.

I thought it was a bit of both, but you and Wikipedia tell me otherwise I'm studying Political Science (or government/politics if you're European). The Bible is for religious reasons and because I think the narrative of Israel's history is interesting if at times tedious, while the Qu'ran is for curiosity and just because it's an important book.

Oh, I'd also like to read either Ender's Game or A Canticle for Leibowitz. Has anyone here read either of them and would recommend one (or both)?

Currently reading:
White Noise by Don DeLillo (re-reading; <3 this book so much!)
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

I just finished The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields the other day. Some day I plan on finishing Anna Karenina...some day....

I'm almost done with the first book in Tad William's Otherland Quadrilogy. It's pretty good.