Future Reading, March 2025 Edition
I’m back from another recent jaunt to the future to scout out interesting books that will be hitting the shelves. One of the more exciting books that I’ve mentioned elsewhere is a new posthumous collection of essays by the late David McCullough called History Matters.
I was delighted to see that Simon Winchester has a new book coming out, The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of Wind. I always enjoy his books. There’s a bit of a wait on this one as it doesn’t drop until mid-November.
I’ve also enjoyed many of Alan Lightman’s books, and so it was nice to see a new book coming, cowritten with Martin Rees, The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live. This one also debuts in mid-November.
Richard Russo has a new collection of essays, Life and Art, coming in May. And Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has a memoir arriving in September, This Is For Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web.
A couple of novels I’m looking forward to are on the horizon: Return to Sender, the latest Walt Longmire novel by Craig Johnson, and Never Flinch, another novel featuring Holly Gibney by Stephen King. Both drop on the same day, May 27, 2025.
There’s a biography of John Hancock by Willard Sterne Randall coming in June, and a biography of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow coming in November.
I recently wrote about art that moves me, and on my jaunt, discovered a book that describes mathematics in artful terms, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel. In this case, the book isn’t new, but the audio edition is. This one comes out in September. And while I’ve read plenty of books on the Apollo space program, I don’t think I’ve read one specifically about the Gemini program. That will be remedied in November with Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon–The Untold Story by Jeffrey Kluger.
Those are a few of the notable books I saw, and I’m looking forward to all of them. Some don’t come out for quite some time. Fortunately, I’ve got plenty to occupy me in the meantime. At present I’m re-reading one of my favorites, The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (a recent entry in my Shelf-Life series). It has me deeply interested in the scientists who formulated quantum theory. I’ve got three additional books to pursue on the subject: Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar; Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World by Tobias Hürter; and Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bombby William Lanouette (with Bela Silard).
Then, of course there is the current book club book, There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak, to say nothing of the growing stack of nightstand books I’m making my way through, which range from sports writing to systems engineering.
My current stack of nightstand books.I think that should keep my plate full while I wait for some of these other books to arrive.
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