on my nightstand

Yes, guerilla-reading style nowadays:

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia
Superpowers: A Novel by David J. Schwartz
The Starry Rift by Jonathan Strahan
Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories by Owen King and John McNally
Bagets by Carla Pacis and Eugene Evasco
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction) by Gardner Dozois
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Strahan
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Thieves' World: Enemies of Fortune (Thieves' World) by Lynn Abbey
The Hellboy Companion by Mike Mignola, Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, and Victoria Blake
Hero by Perry Moore
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Dave Mckean
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends by Avram Davidson

And over at my office desk:

Superheroes by John Varley and Mainhardt
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham

I'm going through the anthos, as well as the essays and non-fiction. The novels require more time - but I'm loving Oscar Wao (astounding) and Schwartz's Superpowers (now I want to write superhero fiction too!).