2012 thus far:

* Anna Karenina - read at intervals backstage throughout Act 1.
* Hallam Foe.
*  Quick skip & a dance through both The Paris Wife & Fifty Shades of Grey (meh).
* War & Peace, resumed reading from July 2010.

Meanwhile, Munroe's comic strip the other day amused.
(Disclaimer: Closest I've got to Atlas Shrugged is Cloud Atlas or Greek myth. 

But still,) I laughed.:

http://xkcd.com/1049/