I know that reading in the bathroom is ubiquitous-everybody does, nobody admits to it. Anyway, I used to keep lots of magazines hand…lately, I have picked up a lot of magazines from the 1940’s (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, LOOK, LIFE, etc.). I got them from my local library …they are clearing out their stacks. I like my guests reactions-“gee, is it 1947 in here?”. Most lie them a lot.
What do YOU stock your bathroom library shelves with?
Maxim. - Most important
Car Craft. - Most informational on cars.
Biography. - Just waiting for another Gywneth Paltrow Shoot.
Reader’s Digest. - This one isn’t mine.
An ocassional Time magazine. - Good reading all around.
Tiger Direct. - Yep, I’m a dork.
Usually a book that I’m reading, right now its “Jitterbug Perfume” by Tom Robbins in the front bathroom, and “Jailbird” by Kurt Vonnegut in the back bathroom, along with assorted issues of Car and Driver, Road and Track, Popular Science, and Discover magines…
Right now I have a couple of *circa-*1995 Dragon magazines and Nabakov’s Lolita, strangely enough.
Maxim, FHM, a tattoo magazine, Vibe, and a catalog from Tigerdirect.com
I have a ‘bathroom reader’ in there, a world history book, and a few magazines.
I prefer Maxim as my bathroom reading. Once in a while a Cosmo will slip in there, but that’s been happening less and less lately. At work, our small (3 person) office has a bathroom with quite “diversified” reading…Maxim, Playboy, and Victoria’s Secret.
Yes, I work with 2 guys, but I like reading them anyway 
New Scientist
oh and we currently have a gay magazine called Out in there for some reason (not mine).
My books rotate, but right now it’s The Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness, Dave Barry’s Guide to Guys, and a couple Calvin and Hobbes books.
National Geographic. There is no better bathroom reader.
Four or five (different) Calvin and Hobbes books per bathroom.
I don’t read in the bathroom, and I’m somewhat confused by those that do. There’s no reading material in my bathroom. The SO, who uses the guest bathroom more than anyone, doesn’t read in the bathroom. There’s no reading material in my guest bathroom. A friend gave me a book called “The Bathroom Reading Book” or something like that, but it’s on the bookshelf with all the other books.
For me, there’s a practical reason. However, out of respect for some of our more delicate readers, I’m going to put the very-TMI description in a spoiler box, as it may spoil someone’s appetite. Highlight and read at your own risk.
[spoiler]I have a hairy ass. I usually sit and read in the bathroom as it gives the dingleberries time to fall off.
Now aren’t you glad you read that?[/spoiler]
Harper’s, for the shorts at the front.
Jessica’s Biscuit.
And right now “It’s My F**ckin’ Birthday” by Merrill Markoe.
Me neither. I don’t know exactly why, but bathroom reading material has always struck me as vaguely crass and crude. Perhaps it’s because I don’t like to advertise that I’m “spending time” in there. I really couldn’t say.
I don’t keep my bathroom stocked, per se, but there are books within a short range. Currently:
“The Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History”
“Our Dumb Century”
“The Onion’s Finest News Reporting”
“Dispatches From The Tenth Circle”
“Dune” by Frank Herbert
“Smile, You’re Travelling” by Henry Rollins
and, of course, my GameBoy Advance. Currently loaded: “Tactics Ogre: The Knights of Lodis”
Three week old Wall Street Journal editorial pages.
It’s all about Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. Best bathroom reading material on Earth, conveniently separated into Short, Medium, Long, and Extended Sitting subjects to read about!
They even use The Straight Dope as some of the material.
Napalm and Silly Putty, by George Carlin. I just liked the title.
Usually whatever book I happen to be reading finds it way in there with me, also recent issues of Popular Science and The Economist can often be found in my bathroom, and (can’t believe I’m admitting to this) from time to time I’ll bring the laptop in there with me so I can read SDMB or Slashdot or something similar. Yea I’m a geek 