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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C# is object-oriented, newer, sane, etc.
Also, there's no ``better''. I would never choose C++ over C# when, say, creating a GUI application, but using C# in low-level or performance-critical applications is stupid (though in those cases you're better of with simple C and assembly anyway).