Books...a dangerous question to ask an academic.
Okay, just bought Anton Strout's Deader Still, sequel to his Dead to Me.
Just finished Simon Green's The Spy Who Haunted Me, (3rd in his Shamus Bond series), also Jim Butcher's Turn Coat (Dresden Files--I'm big on the "Urban Fantasy" thing right now).
For work, I am reading 34 Days, an account of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, and also Jon Sumida's Decoding Clausewitz. I've yet to finish the US Civil War history Battle Cry of Freedom.
For research, I'm reading Alpaslan Ozerdem's Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration. My book on the same subject will hopefully be finished in early 2011. At least, my contract says so
Oh yeah, I'm slowly finishing How to Reassess Your Chess and reading the "Bible" of Poker, Doyle Brunson's Super System.