What books you want to read, but haven't done so yet?

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The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
Anything by Roger Penrose.
All those popular history books by Giles Milton.
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.
Oh, lots of stuff.

Way too many to list across many different genres. However, there are two books I would really like to read, but they're textbooks and even buying them used will likely cost at least $150.

Forensic Pathology: 2nd Edition, by Dominick DiMaio

Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques: 2nd Edition, by Vincent DiMaio

The two books are complementary, and I pretty much need both (Forensic Pathology lacks information on gunshot wounds, which are covered in the other book). I have a copy of Vincent DiMaio's Handbook of Forensic Pathology: 2nd Edition (and have read it a few times, cover-to-cover). It covers the same material but it's basically an outline; the two books go into more detail.

i started reading Freedom by Jonathan Franzen but i'm not really fan in it yet, i'm too busy with my interests.

and a certain book by Ron Paul called Freedom ''idk''

I've read every single book you mentioned. The Rainbow Boys series is alright. There are better books about what it's like to be gay in high school. Books like The Perks of Being A Wallflower. Terrific book about a high-school freshman named Charlie who has some gay friends, goes to parties, does a bunch of crazy stuff I don't remember (it's bben years since I've read it). Don't really like The Catcher In the Rye because Holden Caufield seems to have a "f**k life" depressed attitude. And The Great Gatsby is about a guy who can't speak up for himself and win the girl of his dreams. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is by far the best book out of the ones you listed.

Catcher In The Rye is the first book I read cover to cover in a single sitting. Jory is uncharacteristically wrong in this case...

As for my reading list, my kindle is full of old, unread Roman histories, as well as Mark Twain's The Gilded Age and Tom Madden's Empires of Trust... but I'm gonna read those two pretty soon.... I promise.

Uncharacteristically?

Are you implying that I'm usually right?

I get nervous when people agree with me.

As for the topic question, I'll get around to reading these Sherlock Holmes related books that I recently bought on eBay, if they ever arrive in the mail:

The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle & Peter Haining
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
The Holmes-Dracula File by Fred Saberhagen
Moriarty by John Gardner

One of them is coming from Colorado, and I'm in Oklahoma, and it's been over a week. I was going to jokingly ask if the postal service has gone back to using horses, but even if they have, it shouldn't take this long.

Well, you're dead wrong about Rick Deckard not being a replicant in Blade Runner, but other than that, you do okay...

On topic: I'm shamed to admit I have not read I, Claudius or the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough.

Oh, them's fightin' werds.