Right now, sitting on the back of my commode till I get a magazine rack, is a hardback copy of Rick Riordan’s The Devil Went Down to Austin. I’ve also had gasp various Straight Dope books :o and Mad Magazines.
So, what do you keep in the can for reading pleasure?
Robin
I’ve got two Politically Correct Bedtime Stories books, about eighteen Entertainment Weekly magazines, the third Harry Potter book, two National Geographics and a Pottery Barn catalog.
It’s a nonstop party in there.
“Caution, contents may be under pressure.”
I have the perfect little bookshelf in my bathroom, within arms reach of the toilet. It’s so cute I could scream. On it right now is Questions For The Movie Answer Man by Roger Ebert, Return Of The Straight Dope by God and Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead and Notes From The Underground by Eric Bogosian.
very nice selection, if I do say so myself.
jarbaby
I keep a rotating supply of Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County books.
Heck…I spend more time in there reading than…well you know…
Dave Lettermans book of the top 10 list
Michael Jackson’s beers of the world
Bathroom reader #8
A bunch of FHM, Stuff & GQ Mags that my roommate trash picked
Other Stuff:
1 Gasmask
2 Large metal candy canes
Rubber duckie
Bart Simpson soap
Dogfish head beer shampoo
In the room of bodily discharge and teeth flossing I have three of the most functional and dog-eared books ever:
**The Simpsons Forever: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite family
The All Music Guide to Rock
An Incomplete Education**
Three titles guaranteed to please, inform, & entertain.
Currently, Meditating With Koans by J.C. Cleary, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu, and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
Just trying to keep my cosmic bases covered.
Someday I’ll have a bathroom big enough to be the library, then y’all will be jealous!
:sigh:
Until that day, I have to make do with remembering to take something in with me. 
Currently reading: God in Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics by CS Lewis.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - the bathroom is not a library and shouldn’t be used as such. How long can it take? Don’t you have more comfortable chairs? What about the smell? Would you visit the real library more if it smelled like a toilet?
Go in, take care of business, get out. THEN go to a comfortable chair, with good lighting no noxious odors, and read your hearts out.
What about when I’m taking a bubble bath plnnr? That’s one of my favorite places to read!
jarbaby
Lets see… I have
A Mars Music Catalogue
A Sam Ash Music Catalogue
A guide to Springfield
3 OLD Details magazines
a pottery barn catalogue (for fiancee’s reading pleasure)
Most recently though I have been enjoying the David Sedaris book, Me talk pretty one day while doing #2.
I’ll grant you that exception, jarbaby. But otherwise - the appeal completely escapes me.
Does anyone else do crossword puzzles? I have the LA Times Sunday puzzle books and a pencil (not THAT confident) with an eraser (well…) and I’m happy.
I keep a couple of ‘really fucked up shits’ of ESPN: The Magazine and currently the book *Ghost Story[/] by Peter Straub.
Consider this, plnnr. I’ve got irritable bowel syndrome and occasionally have to spend some time in my second-favorite room of the house. I’d rather enjoy the company of a good book than my own thoughts.
Robin
Well, you’ve got the extra time when your brain is otherwise unoccupied; why not take advantage of it. I mean, its not like we go in there for the specific purpose of reading, but if the time’s available…
And jar, preach the word, sistah! Mmmmm…bubble baths.
Holy crap*, that’s exactly what I have in my bathroom.
*Pun intended.
“…extra time…” How long is this process taking? Maybe its a question of diet. Oh, well. To each his own.
All sorts of woodworking catalogs, woodworking magazines, old tool magazines, and wood collector journals…
…Because my husband is the one who leaves reading material in the bathrooms. However, I like to slip little things in conversation at dinner, stuff I picked up in the john. Like “Who’d have known a cabinet scraper could be so useful in preventing tearout when planing difficult grain, honey?”
We also have a funny book called “Outhouses by Famous Architects” but I’m tired of reading that one.