The Thrill of a Tall Stack of Books to Read

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?