Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

Mind Magic (by Marc Lemezma) - Im trying to improve my mentalism skills (and though that book is really basic it is a good refresher on ideas).

Last serious book was a 620 page tome entitled "Writing Security Tools and Exploits". A book with potentially the largest "great title" to "boring content" ratio ever :( (stuck at it though in principle :P)

"A People's History of the United Sates" by Howard Zinn. A decent history book, not exactly uplifting.

Reading currently: "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert Caro. Absolutely loving it.

That, and my usual climbing books.

Current: The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Last: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.

The best recent: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamon.

Last: I am a Strange Loop

Current: Neuromancer

The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock

Last: Hacker's Handbook 3.0 by Dr. K (waste of time)

Current: Last Light by Andy McNab (awesome)

I am currently reading "beautiful code" by Greg Wilson, Andy Oram(and all the contributors)

The last book I finished was Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.

I am currently perusing numerous books for summer research.

Just finished "Anthem" by Ayn Rand (it's like 100 pages so it only took a few hours)

Started "The American Political Tradition" by Richard Hofstadter, pretty engaging history of our major politicians and founding fathers...

last book: The Dark Tower II

currently: The T Programming Language

Previous: Anathem

Current: Programming in Scala

The big switch

before that

Accelerando

Cat's Cradle, by Vonnegut.

"The Screwtape Letters", by C.S. Lewis

In the middle of "Roughing It" by Mark Twain now.

Just got done reading 'the fountainhead' by ayn rand.

Last serious book : http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Cryptography-Practice-Hewlett-P...

Last fun book : http://www.amazon.com/Woken-Furies-Takeshi-Kovacs-Novels/dp/...

I can't resist the body swapping stuff ever since reading Lord of Light as a kid

Last book: 1984 Current book: Master & Commander

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by David Eggers. Ironic title, thoughtful and enjoyable book. Suggested.

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (excellent; recently saw Food, Inc. as well)

The Next 100 Years by George Friedman (amusing; was given to me as a gag gift)

Currently reading: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Last: What is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages by Potter.

Current: Flow: The psychology of optimal experience by Csikszentmihalyi

Last fiction - The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

Before that - The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson (recommended to all fantasy fans)

Last technical - AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis

'Create Your Own Economy' by Tyler Cowen - a good read.

last: East of Eden (Steinbeck)

current: Design Patterns of Enterprise Architecture (Fowler)

Current:

Ghandi and Churchill by Arthur Herman

Last:

The Odyssey by Homer

A bull in China by Jim Rogers