This is such a great list. I have to admit I just finished HP..vol. 6.
I'm in the middle of James Patterson's Lifeguard. I've just finished The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman, A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrison and The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty.
It's a bit odd, but the man who is walking from California - east reminds me of the character in McLarty's book...he rode a bike from New England to California...sometime life is even stranger than fiction.