My list for the coming year (I am going to try and mix fiction with popular science).
1) Listen to the Sherlock Holmes books on audio (someone bought me the boxset of Stephen Fry reading them all - laying in a hot bath listening to it is pure bliss)
2) Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
3) Dickens Nicholas Nickleby
4) Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time (well, I will give it a try - whether I make it to the end or not remains to be seen!!)
5) D H Lawrence Women in Love
6) Richard Dawkins The Magic of Reality
7) Nabokov Pale Fire
8) Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
9) T S Eliot Four Quartets (slowly and with notes)
10) Edward st Aubyn The Melrose novels
I also want to read something by the British travel writer Bruce Chatwin, and I might re-read Shakespeare’s Henriad cycle.