I'm doing something I've tried to swear off; reading multiple books at one time. Currently I'm reading four (five, if you include my current audiobook).
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (the current MR Book Club selection),
Spanish Mystery Stories for Beginners: El Detective Pepe Sevilla by Alex Diez (no one on the planet is slower at languages then me),
The Epic of Gilgamesh (no idea who the translator is for this version), and an impulse buy I couldn't resist:
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link. The last is another collection of short stories and I was sucked in by the description on the
National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" project website. The first story in that collection concerns a teenager who, in attempting to dig up his deceased girlfriend's grave to retrieve some of his poetry that he left with the corpse (without making copies first), accidentally digs up the wrong grave. But hey, young love! Who hasn't done silly things like that?