What books are on your nightstand waiting to be read?

While I don’t keep books on my nightstand specifically, I have placed Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner and Intermezzo by Sally Rooney by my reading chair indicating they are to be read next. Those are two very recent books, but A Room with a View by E.M. Forster is also next on the docket. For some reason I thought I’d already read it, but I hadn’t (even though I’ve read Howard’s End, Maurice, and A Passage to India).

@Hawaii_Jake Oliver Sacks is a great read. I finished a month ago Musicophilia

Wrapping up The Dark Tower Series – Stephen King half way through Book VII

Awaiting me:
Chasing Hope – Nicholas Kristof
All the Colors of the Dark – Chris Whitaker
A Walk in the Park – Kevin Fedarko
The demon- Haunted World – Carl Sagan

Aw, bloody hell, @Hawaii_Jake, I have an ereader, so way too many. Prominently right now: Justice Jackson’s memoir, the new Jodi Picoult, and Hannah’s The Women.
And a whole mess of “whatever strikes my fancy at the moment” titles, a Siverberg I never read, a Herbert I haven’t cracked for a couple of decades, and maybe a Follett thriller or two.

I am nothing if not fickle.

^i also use an e-reader. My proverbial nightstand is portable.

This reminds me I should get back into reading “Grimoires and Gunsmoke”, an ongoing story where NATO counter-invades a Tolkienesque fantasy world.

My next bedtime story is “Earth to Moon” by Moon Unit Zappa. It is an account of her upbringing in a dysfunctional family. The patriarch of the family was the legendary Frank Zappa who is also my favourite composer, and I look forward to reading such insights as the book may provide.

PS “The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat” is excellent as are all books by Oliver Sachs.

I have two dozen books in my “to read” pile. Joyce’s Ulysses just floated to the top as I am going to Dublin next month.

Blood Sweat and Chrome. It’s about the making of Mad Max: Fury Road

How Doctor’s Think. I’ve been meaning to finish it for two years now. It starts off very interesting and informative, I just am terrible at reading books.

Burn Book by Swisher
Arthur and his Knights by Steinbeck
Liz Cheney’s book
Adam Kinzinger’s book
Hutchinson’s book
Washington by Chernow

I’m the worst procrastinator so by 2026 I might be done. Reading Infinite Jest again.

As Nature Made Him and Murder by His Wife. The former is about a boy being raised like a girl to support an insane doctor’s idea of gender. The latter is about a woman living during the American Revolution who somehow got an American and a British soldier to fall in love with her and murder her husband. I’ve been sitting on them for quite a while now.

There is also a book that I was reading but has been leaving behind. It’s a Japanese book. I’m not sure it has an English translation, but it’s a collection of proses by a coroner talking about various things in his life, from a normal day at work to how the human body works. There is a lot of interesting things about science and humanity in it.

Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand.

I’m about half way through it. It’s very good. I’ve read some of her other novels that I also liked.

I have 2 bookshelves filled with books I’m planning to read. I love to read, but often more pressing things prevent me from reading as often as I like.

I don’t keep my books that are waiting to be read on my nightstand. I would run out of room, lol! Right now I am currently reading nine books at the same time. Why? Because I’m crazy of course. But I am making myself wait to read Supernova Era. I bought it after I read the first chapter in the back of three body problem and found it intriguing. But I’m reading so much else right now that I might save it for the holidays or some such thing.