Eeeee, this thread is awesome! :D I always feel like a nerd putting books on my Christmas List, so it's nice knowing other people are as excited about books as I am.

So far, I've gotten Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth, the entire works of Franz Kafka and Koko Be Good by Jen Wang (which is a simply AMAZING graphic novel), and am working on reading Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger, Trash by Dorothy Allison and Leaves of Grass (the first edition, not the deathbed edition, though I want to read that one too) by Walt Whitman. I freaking love breaks; they give me so much more time to totally geek out and read books that aren't assigned for class. =w=

How about you, Knerd? What novels are you reading now?