I love seeing what other authors are reading, so I've put together a list of my personal favorites and recent reads: RECENT READS Spook Country, William Gibson The Society of Others, William Nicholson Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, A. Scott Berg The Android's Dream, John Scalzi The Faithful Spy: A Novel, Alex Berenson SCIENCE FICTION Dune, Frank Herbert Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card Treason, Orson Scott Card Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson Neuromancer, William Gibson Gunslinger, Stephen King Jennifer Government, Max Barry Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan The Descent, Jeff Long Escape from Katmandu, Kim Stanley Robinson Old Man's War, John Scalzi THRILLER/MYSTERY The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum The Company, Robert Littell The Day After Tomorrow, Allan Folsom A Small Death in Lisbon, Robert Wilson Improbable, Adam Fawer The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl Bangkok 8, John Burdett FICTION House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski Lord of the Barnyard, Tristan Egolf Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield A Cafe on the Nile, Bartle Bull HUMOR The Illuminatus Trilogy, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson Tokyo Suckerpunch, Isaac Adamson Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, Jim Munroe NONFICTION Chatter, Patrick Radden Keefe Radical Evolution, Joel Garreau Body of Secrets, Jams Bamford Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd, Richard Zachs Iron and Silk, Mark Salzman Ugly Americans, Ben Mezrich NATURE/TRAVEL Solo Faces, James Salter The River Why, David James Duncan Seven Summits, Dick Bass et al. Below Another Sky, Rick Ridgeway White Spider, Heinrich Harrer Video Night in Katmandu, Pico Iyer Touching the Void, Joe Simpson CLASSIC Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges Dubliners, James Joyce Gilgamesh, Stephen Mitchell translation Inferno, Dante Alighieri