Following Kniwt's example, I decided to look back at the past year or so and see what I've been reading. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and some I actually think I read more than a year ago. But it's pretty representative, and not a clunker in the bunch except Tommy's Tale (ugh.). Even Clinton's book is enjoyable, if only for the fact that no one seems to get it. Yes, he rambles and goes off on tangents, but between the lines he's saying as much about current events as past ones. And some of it is very enlightening.

Ilya Zbarsky- Lenin's Embalmers
Olympia Dukakis- Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress
Michael Chabon- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Alan Cumming- Tommy's Tale
Douglas Coupland- Girlfriend in a Coma, Souvenir of Canada
Bill Clinton- My Life [still working on this one]
Oscar Wilde- The Picture of Dorian Grey [in progress]
Iain M. Banks- Inversions, Excession, Look to Windward, Consider
Phlebas, The Player of Games, The Wasp's Nest
Neal Stephenson- Quicksilver, The Diamond Age
Al Franken- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Rush Limbaugh is a
Big Fat Idiot
Michael Moore- Dude, Where's My Country?, Downsize This!
Sue Monk Kidd- The Secret Life of Bees
Yann Martel- The Life of Pi
Nikolai Gogol- Dead Souls
Catherine Ryan Hyde- Pay it Forward
Dai Sijie- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Marc Almond- Beautiful Twisted Night
Wally Lamb- She's Come Undone
Robert Morgan- Gap Creek
Jeffrey Ford- The Physiognomy