I work at a library. As a staff member, I don't pay fines. I check out lots of books, and I tend to keep them until I actually either get them read or decide that I'm actually never going to read them. I was trying to find places for all of them in my nightstand, and I thought it might be fun to list them all here, to give you (Hi, Mom!) a small window into my psyche. There're things other than law school and Transformers in there, after all.

So, here's everything I've tucked into the drawers and stacked on top of my nightstand, starting with the ones I'm actively reading:

• The Android's Dream, by John Scalzi - I've finished this one, just haven't taken it back yet. This is the final book in my John Scalzi binge, since there isn't anything left. Zoe's Tale can't come out fast enough.
• McSweeny's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, edited by Michael Chabon
• Maps in a Mirror, the collection of Orson Scott Card's short fiction (this one I actually own)
• No One Cares What You Had For Lunch: 100 Ideas For Your Blog, by Margaret Mason (of Mighty Goods, Junior & Girl, and yes, it has some wonderful suggestions. A list like this might be one of them, but I don't know, as I've only skimmed a few pages so far.)
• Screw Heaven, When I Die I'm Going To Mars, by Shannon Wheeler (who we just interviewed at About Heroes)
• The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America, by Michael Ruhlman
• A Gladiator Only Dies Once, by Steven Saylor
• 2008 Writer's Market
• Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life, by Robert Reich
• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, by Crystal Zevon
• The Making of Star Wars, by J. W. Rinzler
• Creation, by Gore Vidal
• I Am America (And So Can You), by Stephen Colbert
• McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, Edited by Michael Chabon
• Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category
• Rubicon, by Steven Saylor
• The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, by A.J. Jacobs
• The Accidental Time Machine, by Joe Haldeman

and finally,

• The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Edition with the Apocrypha

What about you, are there any other voracious readers out there? What's in your 'to read' pile? Feel free to start the meme, I don't mind.

Tags: books

Posted by Dan on February 8, 2008 10:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)