Probably a lot of readers of /r/water have read Cadillac Desert.

I own a copy of, and have made two false starts reading, The King Of California as recommend by the anonymous author of the blog On The Public Record.

I highly recommend A Great Aridness, a worthy heir to Cadillac Desert.

Also on my to-read list is Rising Tide. I would like to find a book that does for the Great Lakes what Marc Reisner did for water in the American West with his book Cadillac Desert.

A few things I've read this year that have little to do with water:

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
• The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
• The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2
• The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
• Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

EDIT: Oh, and Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt