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What 📔book are you reading right now?

I'm re-reading The Dune Chronicles for the first time since I was in college. Frank Herbert's ability to create practically a whole universe with multiple worlds, cultures, political systems, environments, etc. is right up there with The Professor's.
 
I finished the Divergent Series, I read the Maze Runner Series (Excellent and the movie looks really good too!), and the Delirium Trilogy (Also amazing). Now I'm going back and going to read more Song of Ice and Fire, I'm on 'A Feast for Crows' and my Kindle app on the iPad says I'm 33% of the way through. I'm ahead of the tv series (except for Bran in the North) and have A Dance with Dragons sitting at home, waiting for me too.
 
Romulus Buckle and the City of the Founders.
I thought since I'm trying to write steampunk, I should actually read some steampunk. This is pretty awesome. The style is a lot "busier" than what I typically like, but it reads quickly and keeps my attention. I'm not sure if "busy" is indicative of the entire genre or just this particular author.
 
I just finished The Mistborn Trilogy, which also was excellent. I'm currently reading Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
 
I got hooked on The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling. The title makes it sound like a horror book, but it's really in the fantasy genre. I just the third book in the series.
 
The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock.
I've been revisiting Ryhope wood recently, re-reading the whole Mythago Wood cycle... The spell hasn't worn off one bit.
Holdstock was a bloody genius. As John Howe put it - there sure was something of the shaman in his way of side-seeing. And very, very few contemporary writers understand stories and myth quite like Holdstock did.
 
I finished reading Crossfire at Barbed M & Sidewinder Showdown from Ace Double Western series by Tom West. Now reading Terror Town by Stuart M. Kaminsky.
 
I just got done reading The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, and now I am reading Saint Joan of Arc by V. Sackville-West. It's slow-going and wordy, but I love Joan of Arc, so i'll read it.
 
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