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.