I tend to read short story anthologies.

Libraries are cool!

I haven't read any new books lately, just some older titles I've had for years.

"Letters From a Nut"
"Stories from a Moron: Real Stories Rejected by Real Magazines"
"Letters To Penthouse, Vol IV"
"776 Stupidest Things Ever Said"

Among many others.

@Lady Stories from a Moron sounds great!!!

I just finished the "Song of Ice and Fire" books by George R. R. Martin (there are four) - read them for the second time. There's supposed to be a fifth, but the last one was published in 2005, and his website keeps promising, promising...*sigh*

Now I'm sort of at a loss on what to start next. I'll watch the comments, see if anything sounds interesting.

I Love You, Miss Huddleston

And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood

By Philip Gulley

The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb

The Spiritual Brain

Mario Beauregard & Denyse O`Leary

peece,
dj

"Consider the Lobster" and "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men": I'm on a David Foster Wallace Kick. Also finishing up "Postwar" by Tony Judt; it's long but worth the slog.

Love in the Time of Cholera for me.

Charity, I too have been waiting for the next book in the Song of Ice and Fire series for what seems like forever.

@Natalie - how are you like 'Love' - We read that for our book club a couple months ago.

currently reading DROOD by Dan Simmons, a novel about the character of "drood" who was the topic of Dickens' last, unfinished novel. The whole thing is narrated by Wilkie Collins, Dickens' friend and ? who tracked Dickens' last five years.
I will say the first hundred pages were slow, almost plodding, but now that I'm past that part, it's gotten interesting.
And, if you're not already aware of it, look up OS BOOK CLUB. Our next selection is REFUGE.

@Natalie: Read "Love in the TIme of Cholera" 20 years from now and see how it affects you. The only word I can use to describe the power that book had/has over me is "mystical".

Oh, I had big plans, big plans... But basically, I had to punt, for lack of time.

Colette's Cheri and The Last of Cheri.

Memoirs of Hadrian (French: Mémoires d'Hadrien) by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Hadrian

Fascinating......a fictional glimpse into the life of a Roman Emperor.

It's an incredible book. I am re-reading a lot of old biographies. Right I am reading a bio of Katharine Anne Porter. I really like her, and her writing.

@Natalie, Love in the Time of Cholera is awesome, one of the best books I've ever read. Garcia Marquez is at his powerful best.

J. Robert, Cartouche and Stephen, I'm really enjoying the book. Cartouche nailed it with the 'mystical'. It's mellow and a definite pleasure - kind of like a ballet in it's delicacy. Does that make sense?

@natalie "kind of like a ballet in it's delicacy. Does that make sense?"
Couldn't have said it better!

I LOVE the library, would live there if I could, and "For Whom The Bell Tolls" is one of my favorite books ever. I don't read a lot of fiction nowadays though, so I'm currently reading "Hide And Seek; The Search For Truth In Iraq" by Charles Duelfer and "America and the World After Bush" by Thomas Barnett.

A long, but not exhaustive list:

Robert L. Stevenson - The Black Arrow
W.A. Fraser - The Outcasts
William Smith and Eugene Lawrence - A Smaller History of Rome
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
Isaac Asimov - The Complete Stories
Ray Bradbury - Death is a Lonely Business
Raymond Chandler - Collected Stories
Phillip K. Dick - Complete Short Stories
Richard Gorden - A Question of Guilt - The Curious Case of Dr. Crippen
A. H. Beesley - The Gracchi Marius and Sulla
Robert Frost - Mountain Interval
Horace Walpole - Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King
Richard the Third
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Aristotle - Politics, A Treatise on Government
Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

I have all of theses in eBook form and read them at my computer.
Did I mention that I'm an insomniac?

Love For Whom the Bell Tolls, each time I read it I discover something new.
Plan to reread Big Two-hearted River>/i>

@Wayne - what a great list you have going there! I read FWTBT when I was in high school so I decided to revist it for that very reason.

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. I'm not liking it as much as her The Secret History, which I just finished and found very compelling.

'Profiles in Courage' -Senator John F. Kennedy
Someone paid 35 cents for it, a Cardinal Edition, Pocket Books, Inc. Harper edition published January 1956. Copyright (C) 1955, 1956, by John F. Kennedy. Also, 'Naked Poetry'- Recent American Poetry in Open Forms-edited by Stephen Berg & Robert Mezy. Copyrighted (C) 1969 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. It is an an excellent colander for the hungry. It includes strands of carbohydrates written by: Stephen Berg, John Berryman, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Weldon Kees, Galway Kinnell,
Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, Robert Lowell, W.S. Merwin, again Robert Mezey, Kenneth Pathen, Sylvia Plath, Kenneth Rexroth, Theodor Roethke, Gary Synder, William Stafford and James Wright.
My ambition was to keep these books around for all these years in the event someone asked me what I was reading. My most recent book purchase was 'Man Without a Country', copyright 2005, by Kurt Vonnegut. With all that, it is rather sad to note that Studs Terkel penned the back jacket blurb, please bare with me as I quote,
"Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we discover his family's legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable humanism. What makes this all the more remarkable is that most of it happens in Indiana. I'm also reading 'Mumbo-Jumbo' by Ishmael Reed, as I've had it with me for a long time; it makes me kind of jittery. It has an undertow of the internet with all its 'bloggishness' including B/W photos of what must have been Cotton Club jazz groups and barroom shootouts at varied, disassociated venues. Not unlike many 'experimental' works one nearly requires a technical guide to work through it as the author intends. Esoteric and unfocused comes to play here, like musicians never quite in sync, insouciant on the edge of a very high place. However, one can certainly notice the resonance if one wishes to pay attention.

My little free time for reading is spent here on OS. These days, OS is all I read!

I've read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" at least three times over the years... but haven't looked at it for at least twenty years. I'm currently rereading it. With the 20-20 of hindsight, it's amazing to realize how much influence it has had on my life's outlook.

Dog On It, by Spencer Quinn. A detective story/mystery told from the point of view Chet, the dog. It's irresistible, a perfect summer read.

The Tailor of Panama - John le Carre.

@Natalie - looks like everyone has said everything that I could about "Love ...." I'm a tad jealous that I can't read it again for the first time.

@ Jeff - "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" was hugely influential to me also. For better and worse. And it's probably been at least 20 years since I've last read it.

I'm re-reading right now. Moved recently and culling the collection of those I know I may have read once, but should pass along. Keeping Wallace Stegner books, Steinbeck and Jane Austen, too. Wally Lamb's 'This Much I know is True', all things by Diana Gabaldon (what a fertile mind!), and I still love Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'.

I'm back again. I thought I'd recommend a good book that I read before starting Love in the Time of Cholera. It's called The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra, who is really a man writing under a pseudonym because he was in the Algerian army or something. The story is brilliantly written.

@Natalie - Cool thanks!

Oh! Running In the Rain for animal lovers and anything by Isabel Allende - especially the non-fiction story of her relationship w/ her daughter, it's a hankie read.

I read predominantly non-fiction. Always have.

Though, I'll embarrassingly admit that I'm reading Twilight right now. First piece of fiction I've read in a while (other than some pieces here.)

@Beth - I am just like you, I have read mostly non-fiction for quite a while now.
But for some strange reason I am gravitating back toward fiction. Esp. the classics as I read many in high school literature classes and undergrad but I didn't give them the thought they deserved.

Wintering, a novel of Sylvia Plath by Kate Moses.

Run, a novel by Ann Patchett.

Started Karka's The Trial today - really enjoying going back to these classics.
Also if you ever saw the movie version with a young Tony Perkins it was good. Too bad Perkins became type-casted with his Psycho roles because man he could act.

GREAT question. I just completed Vivian Gornick's amazing memoir Fierce Attachments. I am also reading some of Doris Lessing's African Short Stories.