Inspired by another thread about compulsive readers, here is a question.
What books do you have **right now ** in your car?
I have a paperback edition of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo.
And you?
Right now, on the floor of the passenger seat is a paperback copy of The Monkeywrench Gang by Ed Abbey. Behind the seat is a paperback copy of **Parliament of Whores ** by P.J. O’Rourke. Plus the random selection of magazines… 
I have…The Purgatory, by Dante. I mean to get all through all three, but I can only read it for about fifteen minutes at a time, so car is perfect.
And a well-worn, well-loved copy of Guards! Guards!
Also a light period romance novel.
And probably 2 or 3 I don’t even remember.
And last week’s copy of the Metroland, just in case.
I tend to keep my book with me wherever I go, so the better question is what book do I have in my pocket (Oliver Twist). But there’s also a copy of The Satanic Verses in my trunk as an emergency if I’m stuck somewhere without a book. I read it years ago and then bought a used copy cheap, so it’s just waiting for the day.
–Cliffy
Currently: the most recent copies of Fortune and Smithsonian magazines, the second Cerebus collection by Dave Sim, and Gentleman Revolutionary by Richard Brookhiser. I think there are a couple random books in the back seat, but I don’t know what they are.
I meant the Purgatorio, of course.
Branded nation : the marketing of Megachurch, College, Inc., and Museumworld , by James B. Twitchell.
On cassette: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett.
Small world. I assumed I was the only person on earth driving around with LaVey’s book in my car. Interesting book, as are the looks I get from people who notice it but do not say a word about it.
Gettysburg : A Testing of Courage By Noah Andre Trudeau
When I read the title of the thread, I thought, “Geez, I bet I’m the only person in the world who has Parliament of Whores on the floor of my car right now.” Guess I was wrong. Small world, huh?
I also have a James North Patterson book stuck in there. The title escapes me at the moment–it’s the one about the President’s wife’s family being killed.
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon.
At least I’m not the only one who reads at stoplights.
I actually had to go out and look; I knew one or two, but wasn’t positive on all of them.
The ones I’ve read:
Tara Road, by Maeve Binchy
Gold Coast, by Nelson DeMille
First Among Equals, by Jeffrey Archer
I finished these in the car and just never took them in the house. They’re mass market paperbacks, and I plan on just leaving them there as backup books in case I need something to read while out.
The ones I haven’t read:
Paper Money, by Ken Follett
Last Man Standing, by David Baldacci
These were both thrift-store buys ($1.00), and I tossed them in back as well, extra “backup books.”
I have all of Ken Follett’s books, and when I found Paper Money (out-of-print, one of his first), I just had to grab it.
I had The Illiad by Homer, but my car got broken into and it was stolen…
the bastards, now I’ll never know how it ends.
Nightfall by Asimov.
Demon by John Varley.
2001 by Clarke.
Probably got a couple in my trunk I’ve forgotten about.
Right now, Reading Lolita in Tehran.
It used to be Swofford’s Jarhead but I finished my book at work (Bryson’s Short History) so I moved my car book to my office and I moved my kitchen book (Reading Lolita) to the car.
My kitchen book is currently The Best Recipe from the Cook’s Illustrated people, which I am carefully skimming, page by page, reading maybe 20%, looking for ideas.
No changes in my bathroom, dining room, or living room books. 
The book in my gym bag, which is in the car, is Ngaio Marsh’s Night at the Vulcan. Gym time is mystery-reading time!
The book on the front seat of the car is The rise and fall of the Victorian servant, by Pamela Horn.
IIRC the kids’ car seats currently hold a Thomas the Tank Engine book and a board book or two.
Not The Satanic Bible or The Satanic Rituals. he said The Satanic Verses, the novel parodying Islam & Mohammed that earned its author Salmon Rushdie a fatwa against his life.
Myself- since I use my lunch time at work to sit in my car, listen to the radio & prepare for the Sunday School class I teach- several Bibles, some commentaries on The Revelation. the US Constitution & Declaration of Independence, & Farmer’s Almanacs so I can look for meteor showers & other interesting night stuff
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When I read the title of the thread, I thought, “Geez, I bet I’m the only person in the world who has Parliament of Whores on the floor of my car right now.” Guess I was wrong. Small world, huh?
That Title is one of the books kept for backup smokebreak reading in my cubicle.
In my Car, for emergency reading material is a pocket size timeline of history, listing major cultural and historical events and trends for every 80 year period. If I’m truly stuck, I can open it at random, and suck up historical facts I haven’t needed to know since I was a Humanities major back in the 80’s.
Have you read O’Rourke’s Holiday’s in Hell? another good read.
I have my PDA with me all the time, I have about 20 assorted novels from Baen’s Webscriptions.net on a memory card. I have another card with a bunch of assorted stuff from Project Gutenberg, and also a card with a bunch of dictionaries and other reference books.