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"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. Unfortunately I have to read the English translation since I don't speak Spanish.
 
The Wheel of Ice, a Doctor Who novel. It's been excellent so far. The author writes Troughton's incarnation of the Doctor quite well, and the setting is interesting.
 
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Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination. More specifically The Domain of Arnheim at the moment.

Book was bound in the early 20th century, so it's a bugger keeping it from falling apart!
 
Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
Slavoj Zizek - The Fragile Absolute
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones

Don't know about you guys but I have the bad habit that I'm always reading too many books at once. Makes it harder to get the most out of each...
 
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Got my own copy of Ed Wood: Nightmare of Ecstasy, it's a high school favorite of mine. Rereading now, its still really interesting seeing countless viewpoints on Ed. Through the last third is depressing as heck.
 
I'm reading the Doom Novelization. Specifically, Knee-Deep in the Dead. It's actually fairly fast-paced and more enjoyable than I thought it'd be. Flynn "Fly" Taggart, the eponymous Doomguy is remarkably well-characterized and robust as a protagonist, and though the writing and characterization is a bit chintzy, the overall presentation oozes with delightful camp and just the right amount of Grimdark. I went in expecting it to be fucking retarded, and it turned out to be probably the best book I've read in about a year.
 
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Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
Slavoj Zizek - The Fragile Absolute
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones

Don't know about you guys but I have the bad habit that I'm always reading too many books at once. Makes it harder to get the most out of each...
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Currently reading through Dostoevsky's Demons. Dostoevsky is probably my all-time favorite novelist and I have yet to read this gem. It's him at his most politically reactionary, but that of course makes it all the more entertaining. Also currently have a huge backlog, especially after getting Proust's In Search of Lost Time for Christmas.

By the way, if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend Life of the Mind for more Arendt and Less Than Nothing for Zizek. Life of the Mind is truly one of the greatest books on the philosophy of philosophy.
 
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Ark Royal, by Christopher G. Nutthall.

It's... it's OK. The story is decent enough, the characters are alright, if a bit generic, and it gets let down by the writing style. To be honest, I only picked it up because of the title, and the premise of the Royal Navy in space.
I still can't bring myself to dislike it though. It's nothing spectacular, but there's enough decent ideas that a second draught could have polished up to make it readable.
 
I bought "The Shining" by Stephen King this afternoon. This is my second Stephen King book and after "On Writing" and the first of his novels I've read.
 
I own nearly the entire Redwall series, so I've resolved to read through all of them again. I'm almost finished with Mossflower, and I'm exploding with the feels. It's one of my favorites in the series!
 
I'm reading "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde and so far it's my kind of weird. The writing quality isn't superb or anything but the story and world-building are pretty engaging.
 
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