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Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson

Folsom's The Myth of the Robber Barons. A great little book, by an actual historian, which should be read by anybody who thinks that Vanderbilt, Rockefeller et al. were evil exploiters.

About to start Swafford's Beethoven. Looks promising.

Lancaster and York – The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir

Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise; By Andrew Rich

I will have to check out that book Jory.

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (alas, not in the original latin) by Seneca

Actually a collection of essays on Stoic philosophy, I've read many of them at one time or another, but never all of them in sequence.

I gotta have something to break up my current, steady diet of comics...

^^^ COOL!

I like me some Shakespeare & Hemingway too.

I'm a very slow, deep reader. When school's in my reading load is so heavy (lotsa social science and psychology journals, texts, etc.) that comics are the ONLY personal reading I do. But, now that I'm on break, I find I miss that heavy reading.

Daniel Kahneman - thinking, fast and slow

got it as a gift, a great book

Twilight Children by Torey Hayden. She's a special education worker who writes memoirs about the kids she's worked with and I find them pretty interesting. I'm taking a bit of a break from reading the books I'm most obsessed with - fabricated memoirs - I don't think any of her memoirs are made up, at least none of my searches to find out have been able to find any evidence or accusations. I do have James Frey's book My Friend Leonard cued up for when I finish it and I haven't read that yet so I'm a little itchy to finish and get to it. I've read A Million Little Pieces and if that was exaggerated this one probably has to be too, especially since he wasn't really in jail long enough to have written a whole book about it. If anyone knows of any other memoirs that have turned out to be fake, let me know because I really want to read them!

What if? by Randall Munroe
Answers really ridiculous what if questions using scientific calculations. It's quite ammusing.

I'm the kind of person that reads multiple books at once. Right now, I'm working my way through these:

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi. It's an autobiographical story detailing her experiences of attempting to continue her career as a teacher at a university under the Islamic Republic of Iran before being expelled and starting up a literature class for women in her home.

The Testimony by Halina Wagowska. She is a Holocaust survivor and the book details her experiences in multiple concentration camps as well as her trying to reintegrate back into society afterwards.

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx and Ian Gittins. The story is mainly told through diary entries and unused song lyrics. Most of them are about drug addiction.

Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry. One of his three autobiographies detailing his childhood.

I recently finished Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I enjoyed it but it was very confronting and distressing at times.

I do read books other than autobiographies though.