What good books have you read lately?

I'm currently re-reading the next book in the series, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow. Fantastic books.

Well, having being on night shift the last few nights I finally got round to finishing the His Dark Materials trilogy, great stuff, starts off a bit childish (it was originally intended for children), but i think Phillip Pullman realised that his ideas were quite adult so changed his writing style in the second and third books acordingly.

After that i read George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, an honest and amusing account of a couple of months in Orwell's life spent beneath the bread line, times may have changed but Orwell's wit and social critique are as relevant as ever.

Currently about a third of the way through Genome by Matt Ridley (this has been sitting on my bookshelf for about 4 years).  This is a fascinating account of human evolution and behaviour told through the story of our genes.  It may be a science book, but it is written in a manner which everyone can understand (well, I understand it anyway) and is surprisingly amusing and entertaining, I never imagined when i started it that it would be so "unputdownable".