Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein – although why I’m still reading copies of it I will never know. This is probably like my 88th time through it. Maybe I’m trying to become it in case Farenheit 451 ever comes true.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy collection. I can kill 10 minutes to a couple hours with Dent, Ford, Marvin and the rest of the gang and always be entertained.
For a long time I kept copies of the state bar journal in the car with me as time-killers, but they tended to accumulate and then I’d eventually just throw them out unread. Now I read them (or at least skim them) weekly, as soon as they come in.
But I always keep some magazines, and often a book, with me. Looking in my briefcase, I see that I now have J.R.R. Tolkien’s The End of the Third Age (comparisons of Tolkien’s earlier LOTR drafts with the final published text - interesting to see how his thinking changed), the July 9, 2007 issue of Newsweek (“181 Things You Need to Know Now,” some of which I even agree with), and the December 2006 issue of Naval History (focusing on WW2 naval aviation).