I just finished Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon, which would make a terrific summer read.

I am currently reading:

Douglas Adams' The Salmon of Doubt, Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Jorge Luis Borges "Collected Fictions"

Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik

Chasing the Sun, Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by Jonathon Green

James Gleick's Chaos, Making a New Science

Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

Let Us Talk of Many Things by William F. Buckley Jr.

Lewis & Clark, Voyage of Discovery by Stephen E. Ambrose

also on my stack:

Longitude by Dava Sobel

interpreter of maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence

oh, and I also just finished reading Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh -- a fascinating little book on "The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem".

(whew)