Occupation: Manager, adult and young adult sections, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Library

What’re you reading right now?: “I carry it in my little book list so I can remember. I just last night finished reading Royal Heist, by Lynda La Plante, who’s a British suspense writer who wrote the series Prime Suspect that was on PBS.”

What’d you last read?: “Well, there’s one that I also just read, and it’s called—can I get my cheat sheet?—Between Two Rivers, by Nicholas Rinaldi. Very different, deals with a high-rise apartment building in New York City about a year or two before 9/11.”

What’re you looking forward to reading?: “That’s tough. The fall publishing season is just coming down the pike now, so there’s a lot of good stuff coming out. I don’t have a particular thing I’m looking forward to, although a couple of my favorite mystery writers are due to come out with things in the fall. Diane Mott Davidson, who’s the grande dame of a lot of the culinary mysteries, has a new one coming out [Double Shot]. That’s probably the one I’m looking forward to the most, right now. Ask me this afternoon, it’ll be something else.”

Occupation: Video technician, Laureate Education

What’re you reading right now?: “Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed. She is a journalist . . . and she took this assignment to try and work minimum-wage jobs in different places in the country and see if she could live off that.”

What’d you last read?: “More often than not, I read periodicals. The last [book] I read was the entire [J.R.R.] Tolkien collection that I got for Christmas a coupla years ago.”

What’re you looking forward to reading?: “And the next thing I got is Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.”

Occupation: Student, environmental science and economics, Johns Hopkins University

What’re you reading right now?: “I’m reading a lot of books for school, but currently a book by Tennessee Williams called Camino Real. It’s a play.”

What’d you last read?: “Also by Tennessee Williams, The Night of the Iguana, another play.”

What’re you looking forward to reading?: “The new book by [Gabriel] García Márquez. It’s his autobiography.”

Occupation: Taxi driver

What’re you reading right now?: “The [Big] Book of Reggae, I’m reading the book.”

What’d you last read?: “Last book that I read? It’s been a long time. I can’t remember. Being a car driver, there is no time to read books.”

What’re you looking forward to reading?: “I’m looking to read that book that [Bill] Clinton wrote [My Life], but I’m not looking to buy.”

Occupation: Host, The Marc Steiner Show, WYPR (88.1 FM)

What’re you reading right now?: “The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos, by Peggy Pond Church, really interesting story. 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs—The Election That Changed the Country, James Chace. And I’m reading Laura Lippman’s new one, By a Spider’s Thread.”

What’d you last read?: “The Mists of Avalon. And the one before that was a sci-fi book about the Jesuits in 2004 that came back from outer space [The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell], really a good novel, intense.”

What’re you looking forward to reading?: “I need to read for work, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis, by Eli Zaretsky. I spend my life reading, that’s what I do.”

Occupation: Mail carrier

What’re you reading right now?: “What am I reading? The Sunday papers. Are you talking book? Right now I’m reading [The Lake House, by James Patterson], it’s a mystery novel.”

What’d you last read?: “[The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison]. An ethnic-type book, I guess.”

What’re you looking forward to reading?: “I think it’s called Bad Boys. It’s about money, why bad things happen to bad people.

Occupation: Mayor, Baltimore City

What’re you reading right now?: “The 9/11 Commission Report.”

What’d you last read?: “The Fourth Power, by Gary Hart.”

What’re you looking forward to reading?: “How John Kerry Became President and Saved Our Nation from Another Disastrous Bush Term.”

Occupation: Hot-dog vendor, Charles and Chase streets

What’re you reading right now?: “I don’t read anything.”

What’d you last read?: “The book about American history, it was very good, interesting.”

What’re you looking forward to reading?: “I’ve got to improve my language.”