Some items I am hoping to get to this fall:
My Bright Abyss - Christian Wiman
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington - Terry Teachout
The Leonard Bernstein Letters - edited by Nigel Simeone
Transatlantic - Colum McCann
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop - Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
That last item is by one of my colleagues at the day job - check out his blog here.
James Primosch, composer 