Has anyone got a list of books they hope to read in 2025? Here is mine:
Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four
Douglas Adams: So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
Henry James: Portrait of a Lady
Ford Madox Ford: Parade's End
George Eliot: Middlemarch
Tolstoy: War and Peace (no chance!!! I'd like to at least make a start though)
Dickens: Bleak House (ditto)
Patrick Leigh Fermor: Mani
Jane Austen: Emma
Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle
Oscar Wilde: Essays (I did read them this year, but want to re-read them)
P. G. Wodehouse: Blandings books (I adore the Jeeves and Wooster books, but have never read any of the Blandings series)
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies
No way will I read all of them. Frankly, I'll be lucky to read half! But those are some of the books I really want to try this year. Would love to see other people's lists. I still haven't read Wolf Hall. And I've never read a word of Iris Murdoch, Martin Amis, John Updike, or Alan Hollinghurst. I also want to read Thomas Halliday's Otherlands and a decent book on astronomy, which I know nothing about. So many books, so little time.😡