One bathroom has an Onion complete news archive collection, although I’ve also put a gardening/lawn care book in there as well. The other has Mike Nelson’s Mind Over Matters, which is a collection of short, funny essays. The Playboy magazines are in that one as well (yes, I do actually read the magazine).
I’m now imagining irishgirl on the can going,
“Ooooh, so THAT’S where the tampon goes. No wonder I’ve been so constipated. And what’s that little dohickey there? The clitoris? Well that doesn’t sound right!”
bouv, you don’t read many of my posts, do you. I’m MUCH smarter than that! 
Usually. Sort of. Sometimes you’re not far off the mark.
Required bathroom reading…
Triumph of the Straight Dope
The Straight Dope Tells All
Return of the Straight Dope
More of the Straight Dope
The Straight Dope
Know It All
Ok - I admit it, I don’t have them all 
Nothing, unless we happen to have a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s.
Four people and one bathroom–I have no business tying up the toity.
Let’s see, what have I got in there at the moment:
- “Star Trek, The Eugenics War, Vol. 2” (my husband is reading it - I’ve read it already)
- Style at Home magazine
- Westworld magazine
- Kenneth R. Miller’s “Finding Darwin’s God”
- Home Improvement 1-2-3 Do-It-Yourself book
I normally have my current book in there, too (which currently is “Sundiver” by David Brin), but it is in my computer room for a change. I think I have too much stuff in the loo - time to cull a little.
Reader’s Digest is the only thing that ever stays.
10-year-old Playboys which were left in the house when we bought it
The current issue of Pages magazine
A couple of collections of Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side
The Chocolate Corndog – a Balona book – these are self-published. I forgot the author’s name. These are kinda like low-rent versions of the Mitford books. The title of this one seems appropriate for a bathroom.
At work: I bring my PDA and (silently) play Bejeweled.
At home: Whatever I’m currently reading.
Currently residing in the john are the following titles:
Bound For Glory: The Autobiography of Woody Guthrie
Two most recent issues of Interview Magazine
Structures for Jazz (a book about advanced harmonic concepts for jazz guitar)
Some back issues of the Onion
Robert Hunter: Collected Lyrics
Colin McEvedy’s Historical Atlas series! Most of my historical knowledge I’ve gained in 5 minute increments over the last 10 years.
On occasion I have kept a bathroom novel that I worked my way through on successive visits, but it’s always been something I’d read before, like a P.G. Wodehouse novel. Otherwise…a volume or two from an old encyclopedia, or one of those old Time Life Science books…in short, anything from which I can read a more-or-less self-contained snippet while I’m there.
I usually keep Cosmo, Glamour or Us Weekly. Nothing too heady. Trashy reading for the bathroom. I like to read in the tub too. But I will bring a novel into the tub with me. Or other magazines that are a little more pithy.
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I think I love you. 
The Bible
I bring whatever book or magazine I’m currently reading. I’ve never kept reading material in the bathroom; the apartments I rent tend to have small bathrooms, and there’s usually no place to put books or magazines where there’s no chance of them getting splashed with water or misted with hair spray or falling in the toilet. My mother usually leaves a book of mystery stories in the bathroom, but she doesn’t much care if her books get wet.
12 Great American Court Cases, circa 1967.
The latest issues of:
Vintage Guitar magazine
Paddler magazine
American Whitewater magazine
Cabela’s catalog
Military history and historical biographies of late - currently one on Alfred the Great and another on Angevin loss of Normandy to Philip Augustus.
Also comic book trade paperbacks :).
Those are decent little books. I’d also recommend them, though some are getting a bit dated now.
- Tamerlane
About ten puzzle books with only a few puzzles left, that I need to give up on someday.
A London Daily Times crossword puzzle book I’m almost done with.
Will Shortz’ Sudoko book, volume 2.
And I often bring in the book I’m reading, currently Thud. Sometimes the paper. Sometimes a magazine.
When I was 10 I lived in the Congo, and read the entire Rise and Fall of the Third Reich on the pot, while adjusting to the region.
Not all in one sitting. 