Beginner programmer help.

I've been teaching myself C for a little while and I plan to study programming in university. I was wondering what languages I should try next. I'd rather avoid web development if I can. I saw Microsoft's express books on VB and C# and was thinking of getting one of those. If you guys could suggest some books (titles, authors or publishers) that I could easily find in a book store like Borders (Chapters for me here in Canada though) I would greatly appreciate your help and someday I may be posting here a little bit wiser because of it.

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Learn common lisp and don't touch scheme.
Why, so one can write C with parenthesis? Common LISP is like a garbage dump for programming methods.

Who cares about WOW?
No one. It was a joke. Lua is awesome, but for its lack of native bignum. It's about its only fault.

Embedded systems don't need C actually
Seen that way, nothing `needs' C. But when you can buy a ZiLOG dev board for less than $40 and download a free C compiler, it's better than mucking around assembly language.