There is something both exciting and comforting about having a large stack of books you are eager to read. Here is the “stack” in no particular order:
- The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski
- This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee
- In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
- St. Thomas Aquinas by G. K. Chesterton
- The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
- Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
- Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken
- Novelist as Vocation by Haruki Murakami
- Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling by Thomas Hager
- Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg by David C. Cassidy
- On the Wild Side by Martin Gardner
- The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie by Richard Dawkins
- The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener by Martin Gardner
- The Night Is Large: Collected Essays 1938-1995 by Martin Gartner
In addition to these there are some books “coming soon” that I am eagerly awaiting:
- The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson (coming 11/18/25)
- John Williams: A Composer’s Life by Tim Greiving (coming 10/7/25)
- Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue (coming 3/17/26)
- When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life by Steven Pinker (coming 9/23/25)
- Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold Story by Jeffrey Kluger (coming 11/11/25)
- The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of Wind by Simon Winchester (coming 11/18/25)
- History Matters by David McCullough, edited by Dorie McCullough Lawson (coming 9/16/25)
What’s in your stack?
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