I'm reading Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds - science fiction. I just started it and have not read this author before. So far, it is interesting.
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christoper Clark. It's interesting, but not a fast read for me. I've been slowly working my way through it.
Quicksilver/Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. I have no idea how to classify it, steampunk maybe, but it's pretty damn good.
Wilderness and the American Mind; Roderick Nash. Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine; Hemmleb, et al.
"The Gates of the Alamo" by Stephen Harrigan. Pretty good historical fiction. The author accepts many of the stereotypes for Travis, Crocket, Bowie, & Santa Anna. Had he not, I suspect many readers would be disappointed that he got these characters 'wrong.'
50 Rules Your Kids Won't Learn in School - Charles Sykes Il Minotauro - Benjamin Tammuz (reading the Italian language translation) La Invencion de Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares (stumbling through the original Spanish) About to start either an Evelyn Waugh book or a Graham Greene book while on vacation
Oil Guns, Germs, and Steel On deck - No Country for Old Men, Garden of Last Days, Collapse, John Adams
texashorne - after Tipping Point, read Blink - also by Gladwell. I like Blink much more than Tipping Point.
Golda - by Elinor Burkett. Good biography of a great leader and interesting insight into the early days of Israel. Just finished - Tao of Willie
King of the Club - about Grasso's stint at the NYSE Guns Germs and Steel - why did societies evolve at the rate they did Fooled by Randomness - interesting, better-than-thou take on random events in the markets