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.

Hi OP, if you're a beginner the first thing you should check out is SICP. It teaches all the most important fundamentals of programming and computer science... actually that's a terrible way to start..

Oh and by the way, it's free (as in GNOO/LINUX) http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html