The post I wrote on Saturday on what I’ve read so far this year got me thinking about the kind of reading I have been doing lately. While predicting what I will read next week or next month is always a challenge—mostly because my future reading is often driven by my current reading—I scribbled out a list of books that I would like to be able to read in the near future. Many of these are books I’ve been wanting to read for years, but haven’t around to. I list them below, exactly how I listed them out last night, in the order they came to me.

• The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H.W. Brands
• Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years by Carl Sandburg
• Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marinates
• The Baseball Codes by Jason Turbow
• Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (not scheduled for release until the fall of 2016)
• The Story of World War II by Donald L. Miller
• Reamde by Neal Stephenson
• John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan
• The Second World War (4 volumes) by Sir Winston Churchill
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson (4 volumes) by Robert A. Caro
• The Abominable by Dan Simmons
• Jefferson and His Time (6 volumes) by Dumas Malone
• End of Watch by Stephen King
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• The Civil War: A Narrative (3 volumes) by Shelby Foote
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
• Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella (a re-read)

Mostly, I just go where my current reading takes me, but the recent reading I’ve done has me primed for the kinds of books I’ve listed above.