Alternating between Downsize This! (Michael Moore) and Perl Core Language: Little Black Book (Steven Holzner).
They’re not new books – I’m re-reading old ones because I don’t have the budget (or the shelf space) for new books.
For fun, either being read or about to be read:
A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry
Memoirs of A Geisha, by Arthur Golden
Little Altars Everywhere, by Rebecca Wells
Up Country, by Nelson DeMille
For work:
Classroom Language Skills for Children With Down Syndrome, by Libby Kumin
Teaching Reading to Children With Down’s Syndrome, by Patricia Logan Oelwein
*What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? *, by Susan Ohanian
I See What You Mean: Children at Work With Visual Information, by Steve Moline
“High Five” by Janet Evanovich. Perfect series for light summer reading.
I’m re-reading both The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy right now (OK, so it gets a bit surreal) and I’ve got David McCullough’s John Adams lined up to read while I take some time off next week.
CJ
Just finished Black House by King and Straub and The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg.
Currently reading Time Enough for Love by Heinlein and re-reading The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society by Heather Mac Donald.
Politzania, give Robinson a chance. Blue Mars is a big improvement over Green Mars. Though if you forced me to choose, I’d have to say that the first book was probably the best of the three.
The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis, and I have Dorothy L. Sayers’ translation of Dante’s Inferno waiting for me. Then I have to read *The Silmarillion[/]. My fiance says I have to. Warning: by the end I’ll probably think I’m an ent.
Oh, i also have The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. I, waiting for me. It’s a beautiful book. Lots and lots of pages. 
Bother. What did I do to the coding?
Since the last time this question has come up, I’m still working on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. I’m just picking it up again and hope to finish it this weekend, since I’m on chapter 93 (out of 100).
I’m also reading The Amateur’s Mind by Jeremy Silman, a chess instruction book; and I’m working through Chess by Lazlo Polgar, a book of over 5000 mating problems. I should finish the latter in about a year or so.
I’m almost done with “This Present Darkness” by Frank Peretti. I read it years ago but forgot literally everything about it.
Next on the list is “Piercing the Darkness,” same author.
Finally, this thread comes up and I have a book that I am not embarrassed ( ok, I’m not embarrassed, I just don’t want to be flamed) to mention here. You dopers sure read some high falutin books.
[cue trumpet voluntare] I am reading **The Poisonwood Bible **
It is the first Oprah’s Book Club book that I’ve liked (most seem too depressing or dull. It must be me.) and I am not sure if that means I am getting smarter and more hip or just more lemming.
Currently I’m reading Virtual Light by William Gibson, but I’ve just come back from the library so I’ve got The Difference Engine up on deck.
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. Frikkin’ brilliant, better than Solaris IMHO.
I only ever read one book at a time.
Working through book 5 (I forget the title) of the New Jedi Order series of Star Wars novels.
I also picked up Hulk: The End from Marvel today, by Peter David and Dale Keown. Arguably the best Incredible Hulk comic I’ve ever read, or at a minimum, in the top 5.
Just finished Perchance to Dream by Denise Little. It’s a collection of short stories about dreaming.
1/3 of the way through Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier.
Starting A Confederancy of Dunces by John Toole.
Browsing Herbal Healing by by Phyllis A. Balch.
Also on the currently being read pile is What Your 4th Grader Should Know and What Your 5th Grader Should Know but am too lazy to go get the books to find the author.
Anxiously awaiting Requiem for the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon.
I’ve just finished that one. Its a great series, although I will admit to being more interested in the romantic developments than the bounty hunter plot line.
I’m currently reading “The Colour of Light” by William Goldman.
I’m reading ‘Darwin’ edited by Philip Appleman…excerpts from some of Charles Darwin’s works (Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle etc) plus some VERY interesting essays on the influence of Darwinism on the scientific, socio/economic, philosophical/ethical, and religious world views.
Grouse book
I’m re-reading King’s IT for about the millionth time. No real reason, but I don’t have any new books and the library is really out of my way, so I just grabbed IT.
About half-way through Neal Asher’s The Skinner. Dunno about this one, yet - I quite liked one of Asher’s small-press short story collections, but this one seems a bit routine… and I think I detect a heavy Iain M. Banks influence (not that this is a bad influence, but I’d like to see more originality).
Catch-22