I always end up reading severalbooks at once my 'currently reading' list is:
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
A little bit of light reading.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson
Thomson's account of the Nixon-McGovern campaign, seemed a good time to read it as I'm rolling through Thomson's work anyways and something similar is happening over in the US of the As right now.
The Story of Art - E. M. Gombrich
A history of art from primitive man to the 1950's. Interesting stuff, as a Biochem major I don't get much of a look at this sort of thing.
The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose
I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this monstrous 1000 page tome containing everything you need to know about physics including 350 pages of maths to get you up to speed with what comes later.
Blood River - Tim Butcher
A journalist's account of trying to make it down the Congo river in 2010. Some interesting history that is putting in a historical and political context a lot of the incidents that I heard about only peripherally from my parents while I was growing up in East Africa. Not very far in, but its sounding pretty hairy for Mr. B at this point.
Chaos - James Gleick
I started this before realising that this is in fact the exact book on chaos theory that I read about eight or nine years ago when Jurrasic Park first generated my interest in it. Still rereading it now is proving interesting, if only because I have a more critical eye for some of this stuff than I did back then.
I'm also reading essay collections from R. Dawkins, G. Greene, J. Franzen, W. Self and C. Buckley.
