I just finished a sci fi book by Vernor Vinge, "Rainbows End". This guy KNOWS the future! He is a real computer scientist by trade and has projected the future of the coming digital singularity world (see also Ray Kurtweil, 'The age of spiritual machines'😉.
He makes our era of text messaging and cyborg tags sitting on our ear to connect via bluetooth to the cellphone look like Amerinds sending smoke signals.
Also just finished Old mans War, another sci fi by John Scatzi.
Starting 'From a logical point of view' by Willard VanOrman Quine, a heady read about philosophy and logical thinking.
The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula, by Eric Nuzum.
A nonfiction account of one person's delving into vampires as cultural phenomenon. Nuzum doesn't take himself seriously, and as such, the accounts of his research (attending "vampire" gatherings at chain restaurants, taking historical "vampire" tours in San Francisco, and even a tour through Transylvania hosted by Butch "Eddie Munster" Patrick) are amusing, insightful, and all-around great reading.
October 1964 by David Halberstam
A in-depth re-telling of the 1964 Major League baseball season in which the dynastic, but aging, New York Yankees were defeated by the upstart St Louis Cardinals in the World Series. The protrayals of legends like Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Bob Gibson, Whitey Ford, Lou Brock are incredible and amazingly vivid. But most of all, the book is wonderful in depicting the era in which a change in American society was also played out on the baseball field. A great example of how life imitates sports. Highly recommended. The author, David Halberstam, is also a pulitzer prize winning journalist.
"Chomsky on Anarchism" by...you know, some guy named Chomsky.
"Understanding Power" by...you know...that samy guy.
"How We Believe" by Michael Shermer
"The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God" by Carl Sagan...because I don't believe in God...and neither did Carl.
"Functions of One Complex Variable" by Conway.
I've got "Armed Madhouse" by Greg Palast on order.
Usually I don't read many books (outside of mathematics). Now I'm waist-deep in several.