These are books I've read lately, as much for my reference as anything else.

Fall 2004
Crusade
James Carroll
Politics
Scathing commentary on Bush's war
Pandora's Star
Peter Hamilton
Science Fiction
Opening volume in new hard-sf epic
Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World
Neal Stephenson
Historical Fiction
Hoo, boy. Sweeping? Epic? Impossible to categorize? Read all 3000 pages.
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Naval Battles
Richard Russell Lawrence
Military History
Mostly in the words of them what was there, too. Goes from ancient Greece to the Falklands.
Sundiver, Infinity's Shore, The Uplift War
David Brin
Science Fiction
Classic, and rightly so
Modern Jihad
Loretta Napeolini
Politics
Traces the money connections behind terrorism
Paper Trail
Ellen Goodman
Politics/commentary
I really like her columns; the subtitle "Common Sense in Uncommon Times" really nails the book
The Sixth Battle
Barrett Tillman
Technothriller (naval aviation)
Ugh. Nice try.
Deep Black
Jim DeFelice and Stephen Coonts
Technothriller (spy)
I've read worse.