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I figured I might as well write down the books I'm currently reading/planning to read because 1: I want to be able to remember, and 2: I'm interested in what other people's stacks are.

Currently on:
A Storm of Swords (reread)
A Feast for Crows
Then:
The Algebraist (Banks)
Transcendent (Baxter)
(new releases by favorite authors go here, if any come out between now and when I get here.)
Books 5,
6,
and 7 of The Dark Tower
Most recent Jasper Fforde book
The System of the World (time to finish the Baroque Cycle)

What's yours look like?

A lot slimmer than it once was.

Cobweb
Interface
American Gods
Neverwhere
Errant Story Vol. 2
Babylon 5: Centauri Prime trilogy Vol. 2
And a small selection of random fantasy novels.

Reading: Dune

In Hand:
Dune II

Need To acquire, but plan on doing so soon:
Bunch o' ringworld books
Bunch o' dune books

Huge stack 'o' Discworld (haven't really read it since 5th Elephant).
Huge stack 'o' History books.
Huge stack 'o' Military books.
Huge stack 'o' Gaming books.
Huge stack 'o' Business plans, partnership agreement drafts and several hundred pages of handscrawled notes.
And anything by Cussler, Clancy or Reilly that crosses my desk (even if I've read it before).

I've been re-reading the Wild Cards books lately, trying to separate the stuff I still enjoy now from the crap that caught my attention when I was 12.

First three books of the Night Watch Discworld series.

Waiting on Feast of Crows.
Leningrad, just a little documentry.

Uh... Actully doing a book report on The Big One

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Men at Arms.
and my mums trying to find a copy of Three Men in A Boat, for some reason

Noam Chomsky - Keine Chance für Frieden. (don´t know the english title)

Books waiting to be read:
Shadow of the Giant - Orson Scott Card
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Mobius Dick - Andrew Crumey
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston
The Shroud of the Thwacker - Chris Elliot
and
Blood Memory - Greg Iles

I want to read Anansi Boys by Neil Gaimon but I can't afford the hardcover.

Actually, I may toss His Dark Materials in there at some point, probably toward the bottem.

Currently reading/trying to start:

Non-Fiction
The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
How to Make War (4th Edition) by James F. Dunnigan (not really reading through, just perusing)
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

Fiction
Dark Tower VII by Stephen King
Traitor General (WH40k) by Dan Abnett
Double Eagle (WH40k) by Dan Abnett

Every single Nebula Award novel from 1965 to 2005 (I am currently on 1978).

The Literary Canon as defined by Harold Bloom (Meaning Shakespeare, Dante and Chaucer over everything else).

Brian

Recently finished: Most of Jack McDevitt's bibliography.

Currently Reading:
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
Next:
Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds.
Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds.
Probability Moon by Nancy Kress
Probability Space by Nancy Kress

Waiting for:
More of the 1632 series from Eric Flint. I dunno why, but I'm addicted to 'em.
The sequel to Eric S. Nylund's Signal to Noise. Haven't been able to find it anywhere.
Anything by Vernor Vinge.
The next Halo book(s).

Also reading (Manga/Comics):
Kare Kano, Yotsuba&, Berserk, Hellsing, Full Metal Alchemist, Kenshin, Scrapped Princess, Evangelion, Saikano, Death Note, One Piece, Naruto, Trigun, Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Excel Saga, Ah! My Goddess, Exploitation Now, Errant Story

Recently completed (manga/comics):
GTO, Video Girl Ai, Calvin & Hobbes Complete Collection

Nothing too big right now. Mostly manga and a handful of novels.

Salem's Lot, Stephen King
On Basilisk Station, the authors name escapes me right now
The Tower of Sunset, L.E. Modesitt (think I got the name right, maybe)
xxxHolic, volume 6,
Tsubasa Chronicle volume 6,
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order vol. 6

Just read: Most of Peter David's ST New Frontiers, from halfway through book 11 through to book 15. (including the gateways novel and conclusive short story)

Am reading: Thud! By Terry Pratchett

Will read: Temeraire by Naomi Novik
And Robin Hobb's Assassin, Liveship traders and Fool Trilogys and possibly Shaman's Crossing after that.

Let's see, currently reading:

FAR/AIM 2006 - highly recommended as an insomnia cure (It's the US Federal Aviation Regulations and Aeronautical Information Manual, updated. I read it once a year)
Pilot's manual for the 7ECA Bellanca Citabria
Stiff by Mary Roach
Healer by F. Paul Wilson (can't read technical stuff ALL the time!)

Next up to bat:

Raising the Stones by Sherri Tepper
Singer from the Sea by Sherri Tepper
(would have got both today, but the library was closed by the time I got back from the airport, might just go out and buy them)
Pilot's manual for whichever airplane I'm going to be flying while they recover the Citabria - not sure which one, I have a half dozen to choose from.

Was looking over my bookshelf today - think it's time for another purge. I have books I haven't read in decades, probably will never read again, and I need the room for new books.

Origin of the Species and The Selfish Gene. Being a Biology student i know i should read these, but i found Origin a bit boring when i started and got side tracked off of Selfish by re-reading Small Gods (Terry Pratchett).

My stack of potential books to re-read stands at the first 7 Gaunt's Ghosts novels (Dan Abnett), The player of Games (Iain M. Banks), Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), Watchmen (Alan Moore) and the afore mentioned Smallgods. That's my permanent stack of re-reading (and would also include the Eisenhorn compendium (Dan Abnett) if my brother hadn't have leant it out to a friend).

Right now, Hyperion and Rising Sun are at the top of my to-read stack. Currently trying to find my Legacy of the Drow Omnibus, as I was in the middle of it and lost it somewhere. Just finished 1984 and Animal Farm quite literally back to back. Attempting to find Crime and Punishment at the moment. Collapse, by Jared Diamond, is in my non-fiction stack, as well as my new school-books (though I'll never finish any of them before term starts, might as well get a bit of a start on them now).

A Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
A New Kind of Science by Steven Wolfram
A History of Mathematics, 2nd edition by Carl B. Boyer

I'm also planning to re-read Carl Sagan's Cosmos sometime soon.

Recently finished

"The Ancestor's Tale" (Richard Dawkins)
"A briefer history of time" (Stephen Hawking)
"What evolution is" (Ernst Mayr)
"Why intelligent desing fails" (Taner Edis)
"Evolution and the Myth of Creationism" (Tim Berra)
"How to be mortgage free in 4 easy steps"

Currently reading

"Prince of fire and ashes" (Katya Reiman)
"Darksong Rising " (L.E. Modesitt)
"Dinosaurus"
The Black Company series (currently read book one and will eventually get more in the series)
The Malazan series (read the first 3 books, got book 5 cheap second hand, and now looking for book 4 before I read further)

And I am looking for "The Elegant universe" (Brian Greene), and trying to get hold of "The origin of species" (preferably a cheap copy and not the ones currently selling combine with Darwin's other works and in an expensive box to boot).

mr friendly guy wrote:And I am looking for "The Elegant universe" (Brian Greene)

I've read that, it's very good. Even if I didn't completely understand it all.

Zadius wrote:

mr friendly guy wrote:And I am looking for "The Elegant universe" (Brian Greene)

I've read that, it's very good. Even if I didn't completely understand it all.

I saw it on television. I am hoping the book will explain things in more detail.

mr friendly guy wrote:

Zadius wrote:

mr friendly guy wrote:And I am looking for "The Elegant universe" (Brian Greene)

I've read that, it's very good. Even if I didn't completely understand it all.

I saw it on television. I am hoping the book will explain things in more detail.

Yeah, I've seen the program as well, and the book does go into more detail of course. Greene does a good job explaining things without getting overly technical.

mr friendly guy wrote:

Zadius wrote:

mr friendly guy wrote:And I am looking for "The Elegant universe" (Brian Greene)

I've read that, it's very good. Even if I didn't completely understand it all.

I saw it on television. I am hoping the book will explain things in more detail.

Indeed it does. It's a phenomenal book. Greene does a superlative job of describing a lot of extremely complex concepts in a simple and elegant manner, entirely without mathematics or complex equations. As to where you can find it, Amazon.com is your friend.

Elegant universe is also reccomended, tell me if you want rec's on similiar science books

Currently reading (Started 3 days ago and have'nt had any free time):
Crime and punishment.[2 time]
I, Claudius. [for the 3d time, Lost my original copy]
The decline and fall of the roman empire (Abridged, only 600+ pages long) [first time].
[Empire of the ants- first time, finished yesterday].

I need new books dammit [I know my disc books by heart and have em all , save Thud!]