Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy. The only McCarthy novel I haven't read. 50 pages in and it's as dark and macabre as any other, although not sure anything can beat Child of God for sheer darkness.

Cloud Atlas (again) after watching the film...I thought the film was ok and did not deserve the slating it got..of course it was probably incomprehensible to anyone who hadn't read the book but that was always going to be the case...

Also the Dead Women of Juarez by Sam Hawkes, much enjoyed despite such grim subject matter...I have been interested in the femicides in Juarez since reading 2666 by Bolano- I still find it amazing (in a bad bad way) that this can go on for so may years and not be resolved by the police.

Next on the list-having whetted my appetite for Latin American noir/crime, No One Loves a Policeman, by Guillermo Orsi- anyone read?

I have ten books half cracked open:
the leaders?
Tobias Wilson: the great rebellion has turned out to be great so far, and I look forward to seeing if this is indeed a lost classic. (about some Yankee sympathizers during the Civil War)

The Big Sleep: Oh, Mr. Chandler, man can you write. Five pages in and I love the prose of this classic. It'll be dessert, as I have Open City and Nostromo to read up on as well.