Always on my nightstand: Still Life With a Woodpecker
The Hitchhiker's Guide
Lord of the Flies
James and the Giant Peach
Welcome to the Monkey House (I am also a huge Vonnegut fan)
also on my nightstand: Say You're One of them
And Another Thing...
Brave Story
In my purse or stashed in my car: American Gods
The Draining Lake
Twilight Watch
On my ipod: The Lightning Thief
Dream Catcher: a Memoir

I should probably have some Howard Zinn in there as well...but a girl can only take so much, you know?

Wow! You have one big nightstand!

actually, my nightstand is a pile of books. I set my glasses on top of them all when I go to sleep!

I guess I'm like the usual book junkie I have several going:
The Bible
Faith & Courage - Joe Wheeler
Every Patient Tells A Story - Lisa Sanders
If You Want To Write - Brenda Ueland
Chesnutt: Stories, Novels and Essays - A Library of America Book
IBM & the Holocaust - Edwin Black
The Passion of the Western Mind
Enoch Arden - Tennyson
A Reel Of Rainbow - F.W. Boreham

And I have a bookmark in a few others as well!!!

I'm about a year late,(i'm just a newbie still) but in case you haven't read 1776 yet it is excellent. Of course I am a McCullough junkie but he is an excellent writer!

Right now I'm reading "The Winds of War" by Herman Wouk.

Reading now:

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Do the Math (by Philip Persinger)

I've been so occupied with school and sports lately that I haven't got much time to read anymore, such a shame - but I managed to finally finish Wuthering Heights and La Fille de Monsieur Linh by Philippe Claudel and as of yet I'm proceding into Beowulf, Ulysses and a Dutch novel whose title translates into Russian Blue. A great book by the way, by Rascha Peper.

This looks really good, where did you find this little gem? This may make for a good dicussion in the poetry thread. Please share your thoughts, I would be interested in hearing if you are enjoying the book.

Deception Point by Dan Brown (started to read The Lost Symbol and Digital Fortress and found out that I really like Mr. Brown ^^)

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Terror-Dan Simmons

I'm currently in between books. I usually like to leave a day or two in between finishing a book and starting a new one to let the whole of the novel stew in my mind for a while before I start something new. It's fascinating the way the mind works, as even if I've just finished one book I often find myself still contemplating one I read before it.

At the moment I can't decide which book to start next. It seems to be a choice between a William Gibson novel and Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land." Either that or I return to trying to tackle "Don Quixote" or "Les Miserables," but I have a feeling one of the science fiction books will win out as I've been on a sci-fi binge for quite some time now.

"Neverwhere" is an amazing book. I hope you love it as much as I did.
And if you do, there is a not so terrible BBC mini-series that was made in the late 1990s that is interesting to watch, and it's understable even to someone who hasn't read the novel, if you wanted to watch it with friends or family.

I love Neil Gaiman and everything he touches, for the most part.

I just finished "Best of the South, the Best of the Second Decade", a collection of short stories with Southern locations, written by Southern writers. I loved it so much that I had to get a copy of the first one that was published "Best of the South, from Ten Years of New Stories from the South". The first one is out of print, but I got a copy from one of Amazon's private sellers. These books have some of the best stories I have ever read. I have connections to the South, but I think anyone would appreciate the humanity and the beauty of these stories.