My list is quite pedestrian compared to the high brow stuff most of this list seems to read. Do you guys take Derrida and Pynchon to the bathroom? Just finished Jonathon Franzen's "The Corrections" which almost lived up to the hype and was excellent. My nightstand has well worn copies of Ron Carlson's short story collection "At The Jim Bridger" and John Dufresne's yet-to-be-published "The Lie That Tells the Truth." I'm nearly finished with both. My bookshelf's on deck circle is crammed with Kat Meads's latest short story collection, Frank McCourt's "Tis," a Howard Gardner book on Multiple Intelligences, Knut Hamsun's "Mysteries," Heinrich Boll's "Adam and the Train," Brian Boyd's two-volume Nabokov biography, Bill Bryson's "Notes From A Small Island," Dickens's "David Copperfield" (how I earned two English degrees without reading it is a mystery), the complete works of Isaac Babel, Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus," Stephen Jay Gould's "Dinosaur in a Haystack," Brian Green's "The Elegant Universe," David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest (thanks to recommendations from this list!) and Paul Davies's "About Time." That should keep me busy well through Christmas 2004. Should be reading instead of writing, Tom