I am currently reading...

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. My friend Tony rails against the use of the term science fiction for space fiction such as Star Wars, but this is the real deal.

After I finish this, I shall be reading:

• The Crusades, A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

I recently finished:

• The War Of The Worlds, re-reading H G Wells' classic some 50+ years after I first read it. Stimulated by the recent excellent Fox TV series, which was more a re-imagining than simply an up to date version.
• the miracle of castel di sangro (Ed: lower case as used in the title - no grammatical purist comments, please), not only a great football book but tremendous social commentary. "In the summer of 1996, in a tiny, impoverished town deep in the remote heart of southern Italy, a sporting miracle took place. The footballers of Castel di Sangro (population: 5,000) won promotion to Serie B, the division directly below the most glamorous league in world football."
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, the second novel by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
• And The Mountains Echoed, the third novel by Khaled Hosseini. All beautiful books.
• Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
• The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray: "Murray paints a grim picture of a draconian isolationist Britain" says the Guardian Books of the Month (really? you want us to read about ourselves, Nigel?)

I also have a bedside cabinet with a pile of half-read and waiting-to-be-read books, just waiting for me to delve into. All gathering dust waiting to be started/finished and gifted/lent by family/friends:

• Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov
• blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Potter's Hand A.N.Wilson
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Mao's Greatest Famine by Frank Dikötter
• The Charlton Men by Paul Breen
• The Bones of a Season by Paul Breen
• The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

and...

• a job lot of The Complete Novels of H G Wells (over 55 works one down only 54 to go) - £0.75 for the Kindle! That H G, he was a busy man!

Please feel free to share your current reading here; I'd be happy to know!