I haven't read a narrative book in a long time, but I will tell you a great book every guy should read: Robert McCammon's Boy's Life. If you enjoy the magic of childhood, you will enjoy this book. Highly recommended.

Last narrative book I've read was 1984. It was for a philosophy class. Other than that, I've read a lot of Michael Crichton's (RIP) books like Congo, Andromeda Strain, Prey, State of Fear, 2nd Jurassic Park book (forgot what it's called).

Also strongly recommend Tom Clancy's Without Remorse followed by Rainbow Six. Great stuff. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is also great. Might have to pick that one pack up since I don't remember much about it, been 11 years.

Trying to finish the collected writings, articles and short stories of George Orwell.

Playboys from th 70s. Nice articles on post feminism, and the "tit condition." Did you know that inflation threatened the breast as we know it...
Thrilling stuff.

Just recently I finished "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. I had been meaning to read that for years, but never got around to it. Highly recommended. I started on "The house of Rothschild" by British historian Niall Ferguson some weeks ago, but have been too busy to finish it.

For the record, any book by John Steinbeck comes highly recommended by me.

Just finished reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by, Bill Bryson. It's a science book but it tries to cover a HUGE scope and is more about the people involved and why they made the decisions they made. Very entertaining and easy to read.

Lt Col Grossman "On Killing"
The Invisible Constitution
The Daily KOS - The founders book
Blackwater - Schahill
The pornography of power
many many more

Planning to read some of Dawkins books.

Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard.

All I've been reading for the last little while are LSAT prep books, as I prepare to go to law school and throw all my dreams of filmmaking right out the window.

Winkie. It's about a teddy bear who comes to life and is arrested as a suspected terrorist. Soon, however, I will be reading GRE prep books.

Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th Ed. by Tipler...

...The rate with which I apply torque to individual pages is constant and nonzero!!! (It's a real page turner)
...It promotes my center of mass to be position just above the perimeter of my raised sitting platform (It's got me on the edge of my seat).

Actually it sucks and it's old...

I just finished my first graphic novel 'Watchmen' a few weeks ago. I liked it quite a bit. Very dark.

Last book I read was "Memoirs of an Invisible Man". HIGHLY recommended. The Chevy Chase vehicle does not do the book justice. Saint eerily describes what it's like to be invisible.

I started Crichton's The Great Train Robbery the other night as it was one of his older titles I hadn't read yet.

Halfway through "Ishmael" - a good friend fussed over it, but it still hasn't really grabbed me.

Reading "Influence" by Cialdini that somebody here recommended, and I'm surprised at how interesting it is. I never would have picked that out on my own.

Have a small pile of others that I slog through on the side.

"Tile Your World" John P. Bridge
"The Essential Guide to Mold Making & Slip Casting" by Andrew Martin
and "Building Kitchen Cabinets" by Udo Schmidt
...yes, all at the same time (projects too).
I multitask.
I'll get back to the fiction and philosophy later.
Hesse, anyone?

"The Principles of Mathematics" by Bertrand Russell.

I just tried to read Anathem, but to no avail, see http://xkcd.com/483/ for an explanation.

Other then that mostly fact books, from MySQL to bullet loading.

"Leaves of Grass" suprised me.

Glad I read it in my thirties.

"Cony Island of the Mind" by Ferlinghetti likewise brought a smile.

Was sick this week, read Nerd Girl in Paradise City. It's basically the story of a smart college writer punkrock wannabe chick chasing the heavy metal dream in LA, and living Cake's Rock and Roll Lifestyle. Very well observed.

Library Books --

The productive programmer
Living Well without a car
Train Your Brain
Car Free in Boston

Books from Swaptree to read--
Steven Johnson/Emergence
The Big Switch

I guess it's funny that the only book that grabbed me was fiction and all the others are bran muffin books...I tend to packrat information to a much greater degree that I consume it. I want the Neo datajack.

Just discovered Canadian TV series Holmes on Homes. Home Renovation Schadenfreude. Very educational as we are in the market for a house. Will have to Netflix that.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn.

King Lear (the play) by Shakespeare

I'm reading some nonfiction books too about race and philosophy.

"Arsonist's guide to New England Homes" and "Mansfield Park" are the fiction I'm reading.
I've read quite a bit of shojo manga lately, but that's just trashy romance with a new cover, really. I'm still struggling through "Watchmen".
Non-fiction "Deal-Breakers" (romantic advice), "Starting out" (financial advice) and Perspective and anatomy books for artists.
I probably should find a book about motivating myself to go to bed earlier.

Currently reading "The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson," for a Women's History class. It's actually really interesting. This woman single-handedly started the bus boycott after hearing about the Rosa Parks incident. She and two of her students (she was a professor at the university there) printed up thousands of brochures announcing a one-day boycott and passed them out to every black person in Montgomery. Everybody thinks Dr. King was behind it all - he wasn't. He ended up being elected the leader of the movement, but he was very much against starting it. He also, during his "I Have A Dream" speech, barred women from the stage.

Learn new things every day. I have a paper due on it on Wednesday, actually. I might post it here for comments.

Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher. Dresden is da bomb.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D

Doing the job schools liberal indoctrination centers won't and don't.