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Ebooks ftw! All my library (and it's huge) always with me :)

Check out the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher. My favorites by far.

'The Caves of steel' (Asimov) .. read it myself 2 month ago ^^

Personally, I can only read ebooks in two formats - either a wall of text that fills 1/2 of the screen or on Word using View/Full Screen Reading/2 pages. And a huge font. I find small text on screen a thousand times harder to read than on paper, for some reason.

This week I've read:

• Ready Player One (Found it meh, though the VR concept really appeals to me. I wanted to like this so bad.)
• Night on the galactic railroad (a classic japanese novel about happiness and 'heaven'.)
• The Adventures Of Harry Potter, the Video Game: Exploited (One of the best fanfictions I've ever read.)

Currently reading:

• The World is Flat
• My Name is Red
• Legend of the Moonlight Sculptor (It's being translated by fans- my favourite VR series by far.)

A confederacy of Dunces is a fun book

Science fiction - "Flowers for Algernon" (short story/novel)

If you don't mind fantasy there's always "Malazan Book of the Fallen" and The Witcher(if not novels, short stories are definitely worth reading).

And from medieval era I can recommend you Don Quijote.

And for me it's Cryptonomicon and "Incognito, The Secret Lives of the Brain" audiobook at the moment.

Oh, well. Might as well...
Started reading the first GoT book in March, still haven't finished it. I just find it really uninteresting. At some point I started reading An Idiot Abroad and few months after that Psychology Major's Handbook. Thing is that they're both on my phone and I don't use it that often for anything other than music.

What I can recommend -
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. Very interesting read on the psychopathy and not just that. If you're even remotely interested in the areas of psychopathy, insanity and human behavior, go for it.
Whole Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett. One of the best fantasy series I've read to this day. The only books that were able to keep me reading all night.
Other than that I mostly read Polish fantasy, which so far is high on my list when it comes to quality. I could recommend the Eragon series as well but that fucking fight at the end... Just.. no.

"With Friends Like These..." is a collection of short stories by Philip Jose Farmer. You can read those on the bus ride.

If you're interested in humor, you might try "Another Fine Myth" by Robert Aspirin.

If Fantasy is your thing, check out "The Riddle-Master of Hed" by Patricia A. McKillip.

Those are just three of the many outstanding contemporary authors you can find in a bookstore or library. If you like what I've suggested, they have plenty more to read. I can also recommend additional authors if you'd like, contemporary or otherwise.

In last 2 months I reread again all Discworld novels . They are really good for short breaks to read them.

Solzhenitsyn. read a book that has three novellas of his recently when the power was off (because that's the only time i'm not distracted by the technology), with candle light. i basically tortured my eyes. it was that great.

You better give us examples of books that you really like, doesn't matter how long ago you've read them. Cause right now I've no idea about your taste in book styles/authors/genres, and it's kind of pointless to advise based on my own taste. So maybe give us at least few favorite titles?

This year I read all Sherlock Holmes adventures, Crimes and Punishments, For Whom the Bell Tolls and started reading Dracula

You should give a try to 1984 and Brave New World, they are the best books I have read. And if you like fantasy and stuff like that you should read the Silmarilion. Another good one is The Art of War.

I am currently reading the Hobbit (it's meh, not the best novel of Tolkien) but last week I read most of the tales and stories made by Lovecraft, they are AWESOME if you are into horror and mystery. A Song of Ice and Fire is in my wishlist mainly because of the TV show but I have heard that the book kicks the show's ass

I haven't read a lot of English books in their original (untranslated) form since I'm not a native English speaker, but my favorite so far is 1984. Whether it is a good novel or not is debatable, but it is undeniably a good essay. It's so depressing and terrifying, I'd say it would not be out of place in a horror section.

I actually just signed up for a Secret Santa done with books. I've done it before, and it's a lot of fun.

I read a lot when I have the time. I read The Hyperion Cantos in high school, the first two books were much better than the second two. I loved how the first one was reminiscent of The Canterbury Tales. About 7 or 8 years ago, I got a copy of Old Man's War for free, at Comic Con, and Scalzi is now one of my favorite authors, because of that book. American Gods is okay, but I find with Gaiman I like his short stories and his comics much more than his full length novels. Murder Mysteries, Babycakes, and Nicholas Was are some of my favorite Gaiman works. Snowcrash was a decent Stephenson. I definitely liked it more than Anathem. I think I liked Cryptonomicon a bit more, though. My brother started to read Cryptonomicon, and gave up on it, 50 pages from the end. I think he's crazy. I also really like "In the beginning was the command line" by Stephenson.

My current favorites in books and authors are

• Sunshine, by Robin McKinley. A great urban fantasy, with a girl who identifies with sunshine befriending a vampire.
• Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. If you know anything about recent fantasy books, you've heard of Name of the Wind. An absolutely amazing story. The second book (Wise Man's Fear), in my opinion, falls short of the first, but is still great epic fantasy. The first one, though, it hooks you, at the beginning, and never lets you go. I eagerly await book 3.
• The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson. The first two books in his eventually 10 book series, The Stormlight Archive. The worldbuilding in these books is amazing. The stories are great too. With every book you find out more about the past of one character, while learning the present for all of them. I would say that Sanderson currently tops my list, and his books come out a little more frequently than Rothfuss'.
• Feed, by Mira Grant. Actually, anything in the Newsflesh series, by Grant. They're zombie stories, but a little different from your average zombie story. Most of them take place a few decades after the zombie uprising, so you get an entirely different culture than you do with most zombie stories. She's written three novels, and quite a few short stories, in the series.
• The Black Prism, by Brent Weeks. I have not found a more innovative magic system in any book I've read. And the twists and turns in that book... I very much want to read the second and third, just waiting for their prices to fall a little more.
• The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter. Another truly innovative concept, parallel worlds reached via the aid of a little box that even a gradeschool child could make for a couple dollars. Obviously, once the plans for that were put online, the world changed forever.
• Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson. One night, a bubble appears around the earth. They learn later that the bubble is changing how fast time passes within the bubble compared to outside of it. Much much slower on the inside. It allows them to do fun things with time dilation, like terraform Mars to make it suitable for human life, in less than a decade.

As for how you read, I picked up a color ereader from Barnes and Noble about 4 years ago, and I barely touch paper books now. My Nook is just so convenient. Especially now that I don't live near any bookstores. Having hundreds of books at my beck and call, rather than the half a dozen paperbacks I'd toss in my backpack, is really nice. And so much lighter weight. And if I'm taking the bus home at night, it provides it's own light. I still read paper books, when I get them for free at Comic-Con. I also buy a few hardcovers now, specifically for getting the authors to sign them (mostly the ones I mentioned up above). I've tried the audio book thing. I mostly do audiobooks on my computer, while I'm doing other things (cleaning my room, typing stuff up so I can't be watching Hulu, etc). I cam read faster than the audiobook can talk, though, and they take up a decent amount of space, so I don't use them at other times. If you do try the ebook thing in the future, as you seem to be in the science fiction/fantasy genres, look at books published by Tor. They sell all their ebooks (even through other retailers) without DRM.