John deNardo runs a great sf blog called sfsignal. I got to meet him at last year’s World Fantasy, and thoroughly enjoyed chatting with him.  He does posts he calls “mind melds” where are number of us get asked to chatter on about one topic or another.  In this case, he asked what books are on top of our “to be read” piles.  The resulting list is so good that I ordered two books immediately.  Bad me. My to-be-read pile is already rather high!