Currently reading
Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tristes Tropiques
Richard III
The Dwarf
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Labyrinths
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Gravity's Rainbow
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
I seem finally to have found a type of genre-writing that I get. This is a really fabulous, fabulous book -- better than Faceless Killers (which itself was excellent) -- a mystery set partially in the grim landscape of a decaying factory town in southern Sweden, and partially in the even grimmer setting of Latvia (Riga) during the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mankell's construction of plot, and his characters show mastery.
Modris Eksteins' Rites of Spring is one of the most astonishing books I have read over the last few years -- and reading Dogs of Riga puts in mind someday to read:
http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Since-Daybreak-Eastern-Century/dp/061808231X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1330373185&sr=8-2
Anyway 5-stars for the Dogs of Riga