Please, tell me what book you are reading right now. Do you like it? Why? Tell me if I should read it or not. Since I started college, I haven't read enough contemporary fiction.

Last book I read was freakeconomics was super good, its not fiction though.

Coincidentally enough, at 2am this morning, I just finished reading "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore. I thought it was funny as hell, even if it wasn't the norm for Moore.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, which I'm reading currently and love.

Recent reads (for me) on the thumbs-up list:
A Year of Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (short story, non-fiction)
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Afterlife by Gary Soto
Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff by Christopher Moore
Monster by Walter Dean Myers

On the to-read list:
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

i'm in the middle of two right now.

the first is "sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs: a low culture manifesto" by chuck klosterman. it's interesting and a little funny, but i think i'd want to punch this guy if i found myself having a conversation with him. anyway, i really wanted to read "killing yourself to live," but i couldn't find it and heard this one was good too, which is debatable.

the other one i'm reading is "dorothy parker's elbow: tattoos on writers, writers on tattoos." it's co-edited by one of my favorite poets, kim addonizio, and it's just a big collection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry about writers and their tattoos. i like it a lot. i feel like maybe it's one of those niche things, though?

@daisy: If nothing else, it'll give you an interesting perspective on what the bible skips: Ages 1-30something.

@ultigirl: I've read Speak and Year of Magical Thinking. Both were very good and I enjoyed reading them.

I've seen that curious dog book on the shelves for several years now and have been intrigued each time I read the back cover. I should try it sometime.

@brainbox: I have that book sitting in my bookcase. It's an abomination against my combination of major and minor (English and women's studies) not to read it.

I'm reading a compilation called The Minority Report and other classic Stories by Phillip K. Dick.

I'm not sure if you should read it or not. Ever read any Dick?

@Jay: Nope. Political/scifi things aren't normally my bag. Scifi in general is difficult for me to read, unless it's Douglas Adams.

Great Apes by will self, psychogeography by will self and ralph steadman, probably some other thing by will self, heart of darkness, don quixote

I am reading The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. It is fantastic. I'm almost at the end, and I have no idea what's going to happen next!