What is everyone currently reading??

[Ray]

Here is what I'm currently reading and have read. How about you?

Currently reading:
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Before that:
Wastelands by John Joesph Adams
Needle In The Groove by Jeff Noon
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
The Light Of Other Days by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Pollen by Jeff Noon
Exultant by Stephen Baxter
The Fall Of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Zombie Survivors Guide by Max Brooks
Day by Day Armageddon by J.L Bourne
Rolling Thunder by John Varley
The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Armageddon Inheritance by David Weber <--Unfinished
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
Axis by R.C. Wilson
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Escapement by K.J. Parker
The Cat Who Walk Through Walls by Robert Heinlein
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Blackman by Richard Morgan
Anti-Ice by Stephen Baxter
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley
Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds
The Solaris Book Of New Science Fiction edited by George Mann
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds
War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
In Fury Born by David Weber
Next by Michael Crichton
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
Spin by R.C. Wilson
Radio Free Albemuth by P.K. Dick
Spindrift by Allen Steele
Iwo Jima by Bill D Ross <-----My Grandfather landed Iwo. AND LIVED!
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
...and so on....

[Shawn Powers]

Stranger in a Strange Land. A really old, yellowed, musty smelling copy too. I'm quite giddy. (It's also the first time I've read it, so I'm doubly excited)

[Ray]

Stranger in a Strange Land. A really old, yellowed, musty smelling copy too. I'm quite giddy. (It's also the first time I've read it, so I'm doubly excited)

Ahhh...Heinlein....
I have been itching to re-read his universe...
I am curious if I will enjoy them as much as I did the first time around...THE ANTICIPATION!!

ARRGH!

[udarnik]

I generally read more than one book at a time.

To Rule The Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (my commute read)
Dark Star Safari (my bedtime read)
Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia 1939 (my heavy read)
Light Scattering by Small Particles (don't ask)
Fourier Series (the one by Tolstov, because no one write impenetrable math like a Russian)
And several articles by Eli Yablonovich, the publications on which this lay article was based.

I'll start another cycle in a month or two. When I finish the Royal Navy Book, I'll work on Nomonhan until I finish it.

[mjr]

Currently I'm reading The Lies of Locke Lamora (right now it's only getting 2 stars, I hope it picks up soon)

The last few have been

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein
The Sunrise Lands - Stirling (only half of it, lost interest)
The Disappeared - Kristin Kathryn Rusch
The Lost Fleet (Dauntless) - Jack Campbell
Orphans - Bruttner (probably spelling the name wrong, I'm at work, can't check)
Clay Pigeons of St. Lo - written by one of the officers who was there whose name is totally eluding me (my dad was there, got a bronze star and purple heart)

Oh, I almost forgot Revolt in 2100 - Heinlein

[Random Michelle]

I read multiple books at once.

The Histories by Herodotus (By the bed; I love mythology)
Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan (By the bed; I am having a hard time getting into this and may give up)
Daemon Eyes by Camille Bacon-Smith (In my jacket pocket; I have a weakness for supernatural fantasy, and usually carry it with me as a distraction when I'm on public transportation or in waiting rooms.)
The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham (by the sofa)
Capacity by Tony Ballentine (In the... err... you know; The first SF I've tried to read in years. We'll see how it goes.)

What'll happen is that I'll go back and forth until I really get into a single book, in which case I'll finish that book, and then start another book to have at that location. Books by the sofa are usually read the fastest. Books in my jacket pocket often become books by the sofa. Books by the bed are deliberate slow reads, so I can get to sleep at night.

[Random Michelle]

Currently I'm reading The Lies of Locke Lamora (right now it's only getting 2 stars, I hope it picks up soon)

I loved The Lies of Locke Lamora, but it may have taken me a couple chapters to get into it--once I got past his childhood. But then I love reading about thieves, assassins, and other scoundrels.

[iiradned]

Kissing Sin by Keri Arthur

before that

Aa! Megami-sama by Kosuke Fujishima
Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell

[Crunchbird]

Currently in progress:

Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
The Third Secret by Steve Berry (pulp from the office book exchange shelf)
Dune by Frank Herbert (picked up a cheap hardcover edition and decided it was time for another re-read)
Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan (re-read)

Books finished in the last month or so:

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
The Clan Corporate by Charlie Stross
Extras by Scott Westerfeld
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (re-read)
Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan (re-read)
A Nameless Witch by A. Lee Martinez

I'm sure there are one or two others I've left off of here ... may have to come back and edit this after reviewing the bookpiles back home.

[JustAnotherJohn]

I finished Charles Stross' Halting State last night. Now I don't know what I'm going to read as I've run out of unread books. Maybe I should follow Shawn's lead and pick up Stranger in a Strange Land as it has been... umm... 18 years since I read it last. Man, tempus fugit.

[Randy Johnson]

I just finished The Last Tomb and am working on Grave Descend by John Lange. The first was an old copy and the later a new edition. Everyone appears to be keeping the secret of who he really is, but one minute on the internet will tell you that Michael Crichton wrote these, as well as six others, while he was going to college and medical school. He also wrote one under the name Jeffery Hudson that has since been reprinted under his own name and one with his brother as by Michael Douglas.

[hugh57]

Currently reading:
The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer

Recent:
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
Ragamuffin by Tobias S. Buckell
Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell
Mainspring by Jay Lake

Next:
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson

[Antony B]

Currently: All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye - Christopher Brookmyre

Previous: Old Man's War (I've been a lurker here for years, yet before reading OMW last week, I'd never read anything by Scalzi other than the online version of Agent To The Stars. After enjoying OMW so much, I'll be buying the rest of his novels very soon).

[sphere777]

In my backpack:

SFBC collection of four early Terry Pratchett novels (never really read him for some strange reason)

Finishing up:

Polity Agent by Neil Asher
Undertow by Elizabeth Bear
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (collection)
Bonehunters by Steve Erickson
The One Kingdom by Sean Russell

Coming up:

Whiskey and Water by Elizabeth Bear
Halting State by Charles Stross

[Nikitta]

Reading World War Z

Before that I read The Android's Dream and before that again I read The Knife Itself.

I've ordered Halting State online and am patiently waiting for it to arrive from USAmerica.

[helifino]

I also read more than one at a time.
I'm reading:

• Watch on the Rhine - Tom Kratman & John Ringo
• The Way to Glory - David Drake
• The Best of Jim Baen's Universe - various authors

[theophylact]

I just finished William Gibson's Spook Country. Like many here, I'm reading several at a time, including Fred Vargas's Have Mercy on Us All and Elizabeth Bear's Blood and Iron, and about to start James Hamilton-Paterson's Amazing Disgrace.

[PixelFish]

I am re-reading Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad.

[JustAnotherJohn]

Update:

I'm currently reading Guns, Germs, and Steel which is just great. But yesterday I saw an illustrated hard back of The Right Stuff on the bargain tables and just had to pick it up. It's sucked me in.

[Manzabar]

An Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature but not enjoying it as much as I thought I would. And I hit up our local library's annual book sale over the weekend where I picked up ~2cubic feet of books*, so I've now got plenty of other stuff to read once I get those books cataloged.

* I go on the last day of their sale every year as they sell books by the cubic foot and you can get some great bargains. Plus if I don't like anything I picked up I can take it to the used book store later for store credit.

[Nathan]

just finished World War Z and started Kris Longknife: Audacious (Mike Shepherd).

[Matthew Kane]

Just finished re-reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honour. I'd forgotten the little 'Aftermath' story at the end. very pretty in a sad way.

[Ray]

Updating this thread is great!
I just updated my original post with the last few books I read and what I am currently reading. This could be a great thread for book opinions!

[oldsma]

I am a genre outlaw. I am currently reading

• Virtually Normal, Andrew Sullivan
• The Nature of Economies, Jane Jacobs
• JLA : the ultimate guide to the Justice League of America, Scott Beatty
• You Can Teach Yourself the Accordion, (Mel Bay)
• Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America, Thomas A. Foster
• Captain Alatriste, Arturo Perez-Reverte
• The Sonnets, William Shakespeare

I probably have some SFF floating around somewhere, but nothing active.

[Domini]

I just finished "God's Demon" by Wayne Barlowe, and it gets a resounding "meh". Disappointing, considering it's from Tor and Tor has a high percentage of really good writers. And the idea's really cool...what if the demons that revolted in Heaven and Fell to become demons in Hell revolted again for the chance to go back to Heaven? The writing doesn't really carry that idea off as I'd like to see it, though. :(

Currently, I'm reading "Reserved for the Cat" by Mercedes Lackey. I'm enjoying it so far. As long as I don't expect too much from a Lackey villain I'm usually pleased enough with her works.

[JJS]

Invasive Procedures, by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

[david-de-beer]

The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick - slow start, but is picking up now and I love this world Swanwick created.
Best SF and Fantasy of the year, edited Jonathan Strahan
Year's Best SF 12, edited Hartwell and Cramer

Ghost in the shell 1.5 comic series from Dark Horse, but I'm not enjoying it as much as I've enjoyed some of Shirow's previous work. Bit of a dud buy this one.

[Manzabar]

I set aside An Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature for now and started on the box of books I bought at the library book sale. First up, Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper.

david-de-beer: If you like mysteries at all, a good/fun manga is Cased Closed by Gosho Aoyama (the original Japanese title was "Detective Boy Conan").

[Jeri]

I'm reading very little right now because of NaNoWriMo. But, just to suck up, I managed to pick up a copy of "The Android's Dream" in Anchorage and am enjoying that. :)

The first bookstore I went to had already sold out of it. WTG, Scalzi!

[Matthew Kane]

And an other:
The Cold Dish and Kindness Goes Unpunished, mysteries set in Wyoming by Craig Johnson. Not the usual sort of thing I read, but they're making me laugh.

[Zalandris]

I'm currently reading Lisey's Story by Stephen King. Pretty interesting seeing how I'm about a third of the way in and have no idea where he's going with this story.

Before that was:

Hit Parade by Lawrence Block. Love me the Keller stories.
Plague Year by Jeff Carlson. It was okay, nothing to write home about.
Heart-shaped Box by Joe Hill. Very good ghost story, highly recommended.

And a re-reading of Old Man's War. I noticied something this time; you have old people and soldiers, two groups known for their varied ways of expressing displeasure. Yet not much complaining in the book. Had a harder time suspending disbelief about that then the fact that everyone was green. lol

[Angelle]

You know, it's only when someone asks this question that I realize how scattered I really am.

On the bus: Beyond Belief - Elaine Pagels
At work: The Flight of the Creative Class - Richard Florida
Beside the bed: Stories - Guy De Maupassant
Book I really should get back to now that the move/job hunt is over: Spook Country - William Gibson

[Nathan]

I ran out of Terry Pratchett stuff to read and then remembered he'd done some young adult fiction. I'm now on the second book of his Tiffany Arching Adventures and I'm loving it. Sqweeeeee!

[LameLefty]

Currently reading:

A Game of Thrones, the first book in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, for about the fourth time
Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville (wonderful but DENSE with imagery - can't read too fast or it makes my brain want to vomit)
The Pale Blue Eye, by Louis Bayard
How NASA Learned to Fly in Space, An Exciting Account of the Gemini Missions, by David M. Harland (somewhat dry and a way over-long title, but very good).

[Matthew Kane]

Stormcaller - Tom Lloyd. And Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything

[ScottM]

I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. It isn't sci-fi or fantasy, so it's a bit out of my ordinary path. It was very interesting, had great, sympathetic characters, and was different without being alien.

I'm currently reading Pamela Seargent's Thumbprints, which is a pretty good short story collection. Though I disliked the intro story and had to skip it...

[Nathan]

I'm reading Ken Follet's World Without End. Its a sequel (20+ years later) to The Pillars of the Earth.

Really good a few hundred pages in.

[WinterIsComing]

I'm working my way through Frank Herbert's Dune. Not bad so found, but a little unnerving being inside of a slew of characters' heads all at the same time. Still, spice is nice and worms are scary. Don't know if I'll continue on with any other books in the series immediately when I'm finished, but I might give them a try down the line.

[TriviaDan]

Just Finished: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, and 1634: The Ram Rebellion by Eric Flint, along with The Royal Mess by MaryJanice Davidson (what can I say, I read everything my wife buys so we can talk about it. If only she would return the favor)
Currently working on: The Android's Dream by J. Scalzi, 1635: Cannon Law by Eric Flint and Lincoln by David Herbert Donald.
At any given time I am usually reading 3 to 5 books. Thanks to the thread on what to recommend to a new Sci-Fi reader, I have a big list ahead. Yay Books!

[green_hat]

Just finished up with "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson. Fun read, but I wish it were longer. Can't wait for the movie to come out.