What Books Are You Reading?

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I'm reading:

The Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe

Catechism of the Catholic Church

I plan on reading Gray's Anatomy.

I just finished the second edition of Taleb's 'The Black Swan', it was quite a workout so I'm taking a break before my next book

I'm nearly finished reading Harry Potter for the first time

...I'm taking a break before my next book

Eva Ibbotson, 'Which Witch'
John Hatcher, 'The Black Death'
Shizuo Tsuji, 'Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art'.

Dragon Avenger By E.E. Knight

Dragon Outcast - Almost finished. The very first book in the series, Dragon Champion, is my favorite book of all time. This one might be better. It's the third in the series. As the first three books of this series(Age of Fire) can be read in any order, I am reading it and the second book(Dragon Avenger) at the same time.

Temeraire by Naomi Novik- I like how this book incorporated Dragons into the real world and a real conflict(The Napoleonic Wars)

A couple of stories from the Cthulhu Mythos by Howard P. Lovecraft

Metro 2033 By Dmitry Glukhovsky- I really love the book. It's about Post-apocalyptic Russia. The world is so irradiated from the Nuclear Holocaust, that the survivors have to live in the Moscow Metro. As a result of all the radiation, animals and even Humans have begun evolving to better survive the environment. The book has a game also that just came out. Here's a trailer to give you an idea:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MXXaPdg9Go[/youtube]

reading magazines, books on the other hand never seem to appeal to me

The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larsson

The farther I get into it, the more convinced I am that the author either knew someone with Asperger's Syndrome or spent a whole lot of time lurking on WP or a similar site. Reviewers are speculating that the writer character in the book is a stand-in for the author himself- that character is NT. But the Lisbeth Salander character: there are whole paragraphs about her that could have come right off of threads here.

The author died in 2004 so I don't know if that makes it impossible for him to have lurked here.

Anybody else here read it and formed a similar or different reaction to Lisbeth Salander?

I read all 3 of the books and got a very strong impression that she had AS. If you google it, you'll see that quite a few people have that interpretation of the character. It's a real shame that the author died, they are great books.

Dracula by Bram Stroker

Quicksilver- Neal Stephenson. A period piece of sorts about the inventors of calculus. Some other characters from the era are included as well, but they're the front and center characters atm.

The Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

and after that, maybe read a few murder-mystery novels

The Transition of H.P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness

Asperger's from the Inside Out by Michael John Carley