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
The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism
An excellent introduction to the topic of Italian fascism. The book contains a bibliographical survey of the principal perspectives and interpretations that have been offered by leading scholars of a range of topics, and thus not only presents the various topics, but gives the reader the status questionis in each case. The analogous book on the German side, which I have not found as compelling (frankly), is Ian Kershaw's:
http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Dictatorship-Problems-Perspectives-Interpretation/dp/0340760281/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230962833&sr=1-8
I'm not enamored of Bosworth's more widely acclaimed book, though I don't know it that well:
http://www.amazon.com/Mussolinis-Italy-Fascist-Dictatorship-1915-1945/dp/B000MR8TFO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230963011&sr=1-1
I find Bosworth a bit too glib and superficial for my tastes -- But the current book on Problems and Perspectives serves its function admirably.