After Christmas, I will go to Montana for a couple of weeks. I could not possibly travel without a large stock of options-to-read, so I am already accumulating a pile of possibilities. So far:

Daniel A. Bell, Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context (Princeton 2006).

Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History (Yale 2006).

Deirdre N. McClosky, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (Chicago 2006).

Michael Perelman, Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology (Monthly Review Press 2006).

Carlotta Perez, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (Elgar 2002).

AND

Nelson DeMille's new thriller, Wild Fire (Warner 2006).

There are no prizes for guessing which one is certain to actually get read.

ADDENDUM: And if I run low, I can always check the New York Sun's list of "The Year's Best Books."