Some of the items on my bookshelf at the moment:
Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989 – Tim Rutherford-Johnson
The Givenness of Things – Marilynne Robinson
Incarnadine – Mary Szybist
The Politics of Upheaval – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Deeper Than Words – Brother David Steindl-Rast
The Bible and Proust are there as well, but the above items are ones I might actually finish at some point.
James Primosch, composer 
Thank you for your suggestions, Jim - I’m assembling my summer reading list and will check into yours. . . .
Pat