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.

OP, don't listen to /prog/. What you want is to learn a modern, rich, stylish programming language that you will use in the real world and that will be the de facto standard in the future: Ruby.

You'll want to check this out http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ ;)