Note: I still have to resolve some references in this page, to give full credit, html links where possible, exact titles to some of the books, etc...
Mags
I subscribe to EDGE magazine, a really cool UK mag on videogames. I started reading it on september'95, month more, month less.
I usually read Doctor Dobb's Journal, a very good US magazine on computers programming. The first one I bought was on september'91. I started reading it regularly about a year afterwards.
I checked the US Game Developer mag a few months ago, ordering the 5 back issues in which Chris Hecker comments on perspective texture mapping. Personal opinion: the mag ain't good, Chris Hecker's column is.
Jim Blinn's corner in IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications is probably the best column about graphics there is. He has published a book with some of the columns (about 18 of them). Read on to find out the title.
Programming books
I have a strong disbelief for "products" such as Tricks of..., Black art... and most of Zen of... (except Abrash's). I believe in Graphics gems, Aho, Sethi and Ulman's Dragon book, Kerninghan & Ritchie's The C programming language and Stroustrup's The C++ programming language.
Buy Jim Blinn's A trip down the graphics pipeline. It's a collection of some of his columns in IEEE CG&A. Useful even if you've read the mags (no changes, but a little book is more comfortable that 18 mags or the photocopies of those). I hadn't read the last chapter, in which he explains his jump from Fortran to C++. By the way, it's the only place I have seen explicited how one should raster convert a polygon perfectly, with sub-pixel adjustments.
One discouragement: do not buy AI Agents in Virtual Reality Worlds. The notions on object creation and deletion of the author are wrong, and so the code is buggy. And, what's more, the AI Agents created are incredibly dumb. The techniques presented, in the way he implements them, are worthless.
Novels
I read Science Fiction mostly (and I am not ashamed to say so). Books I've read in the last few months:
Eon, by Greg Bear. Extremely good science fiction. No more comments are necessary.
Space merchants and its second part, Space merchant wars, by Frederik Pohl and some other guy whose name I can't remember. Heavily sarcastic and very good. Yeah, I know, how come I didn't read this one before?
Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. I liked the initial trilogy a lot (maybe because I was very very young). This one is crap.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset, by Robert Heinlein. Fun, lots of sex for a Heinlein book but mostly well handled. My copy (cheaply bought at an old-book fair) missed 32 pages near the end. Still haven't finished it. Man that got me mad! It was a long time I hadn't read anything by Heinlein (over 5 years).