Here are some books I've read lately (most recent listed first) ...

• Transcendent - Stephen Baxter
• Exultant - Stephen Baxter
• Coalescent - Stephen Baxter
• The Algebraist - Iain M. Banks
• Look To Windward - Iain M. Banks
• Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
• Excession - Iain M. Banks
• Stamping Butterflies - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• The Snow - Adam Roberts
• Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds
• Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds
• American Legal History: Cases & Materials - Hall, Wiecek & Finkelman (eds)
• Grass - Sheri S. Tepper
• The Fresco - Sheri S. Tepper
• The Road From Coorain - Jill Ker Conway
• The Minority Report - Phillip K. Dick
• A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
• A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
• A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
• Batavia's Graveyard - Mike Dash
• The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Menace From Earth - Robert A. Heinlein
• Virtual Unrealities - Alfred Bester
• Bellwether - Connie Willis
• The Hammer of the Gods - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Chronoliths - Robert Charles Wilson
• Tales of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
• Tangents - Greg Bear
• Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
• The Earthsea Quartet - Ursula Le Guin
• The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction - Ferman & van Gelder (eds)
• The Taylor Years - Ken Piesse
• He Died With a Falafel In His Hand - John Birmingham
• Rise Of Endymion - Dan Simmons
• Endymion - Dan Simmons
• The House of Doors - Brian Lumley
• Mercury and Me - Jim Hutton
• A Southern Belle Primer - Maryln Schwartz
• Pythagoras' Trousers - Margaret Wertheim
• Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
• About A Boy - Nick Hornby
• Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
• In A Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
• Side Effects - Woody Allen
• Measuring the Universe - Kitty Ferguson
• High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
• 1999 Best SF 4 - David Hartwell (ed)
• Is There Anyone Out There? - Frank Drake and Dava Sobel
• The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
• The Night Is Long - Martin Gardner
• Children Of God - Mary Doria Russell
• The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
• Polgara The Sorceress - David Eddings & Leigh Eddings
• Science Fiction Carnival - Brown & Reynolds (eds)
• Pacific Book Of Australian SF - John Baxter (ed)
• Belgarath The Sorcerer - David Eddings & Leigh Eddings
• Sing To Me - Penny Flanagan
• The Best New SF 10 - Gardner Dozois (ed)
• Star Science Fiction No.4 - Frederick Pohl (ed)
• Four For The Future - Groff Conklin (ed)
• Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
• Metamagical Themas - Douglas R. Hofstadter
• The Bradbury Chronicles - Nolan & Greenberg (eds)
• R Is For Rocket - Ray Bradbury
• The Return - William Shatner
• Gold - Isaac Asimov
• Encounters - Asimov, Greenberg & Waugh (eds)
• The Physics of Star Trek - Laurence M. Krauss
• Magnificat - Julian May
• Mistress of Empire - Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts
• Servant of Empire - Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts
• Daughter of Empire - Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts
• The Seedling Stars - James Blish
• Striped Holes - Damien Broderick
• The Interpreter - Brian Aldiss
• Queen And I: The Brian May Story - Laura Jackson
• Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett
• The Tale Of The Body Thief - Anne Rice
• The Stainless Steel Rat Sings The Blues - Harry Harrison
• Diamond Mask - Julian May
• Jack the Bodiless - Julian May
• Intervention - Julian May
• Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
• The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
• Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice