Things to do in Battersea when you're bored.

Ten years or more ago, as an exercise I kept a note of all the books I read in a year. I came across it a while back and was astounded to discover that I'd churned through over a hundred. Thinking about it, I was very confident that thanks to easy access to the internet and a telly had significantly reduced my reading-time so the year before last I kept a list again, and yes, I was right I hadn't read a hundred this time round. In fact, I'd read fewer than half that and I thought this was probably not great so one of my resolutions for 2014 was a minimum of one book a week, just to keep my hand in.

I failed. In my defense, although I didn't read enough books I did write one* but even so I feel a bit disappointed in myself so my new New Year's resolution is the same as last year. A book a week. What's yours?

If you're interested, here's last year's list:

Alistair Reynolds - Revelation Space
Greg bear - Darwin's Children
Penguin classics - The penguin book of gaslight crime
Alan Dean Foster - Aliens
Julius Caesar - The Civil War
Dean Koontz - Odd Hours
Joyce Tyldesley - Egypt
Anthony Sattin - Lifting the veil
Vita Sackville-West - Passenger to Teheran
Anthony Sattin - The Pharaohs Shadow
Geraldine Pinch - Egyptian Mythology
Ae van Vogt - Destination Universe
Connie Willis - The Doomsday Book
EM Forster - Alexandria
Paul Brunton - A search in secret Egypt
Colin Greenland - Take back plenty
Jerome K Jerome - Idle thoughts of an idle fellow
Gaie Sebold - Shanghai Sparrow
Connie Willis - To say nothing of the dog
Terry Pratchett - Monstrous regiment
Rose Tremain - The Colour
Bill Bryson - One summer, 1927
Nicolo Machiavelli - On conspiracies
Rick riordan - The red pyramid
Geoff Dyer - Zona
Nikolai Gogol - Viy
Tom Bingham - The rule of law
Jerry Brotton - A history of the world in twelve maps
Michael bishop - No enemy but time
Scott Lynch - The republic of thieves
Simon Winchester - The surgeon of Crowthorne
Gyles brandreth - Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders
Bradley Garrett - Explore everything
Peter F Hamilton - The evolutionary void
Zakhar Prilepin - Sankya
Peter Watts - Blindsight
Antal Szerb - The pendragon legend
Hp Lovecraft - The dreams in the witch house and other stories.
Harry Harrison - Winter in Eden.
Harry Harrison - Return to Eden
Ernest Cline - Ready player one.
Marjorie Bowen - The bishop of hell

*More on that later, hopefully.