Given the length of The Mahabharata, I won’t promise how much I will manage in October, especially as work has increased to a size where I needed to postpone my holidays sitting in the sun reading.

After the Mahabharata, I will tackle

• The first 5 books of the Old Testament (haven’t chosen which version of the Bible, but probably the King James Version)
• The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
• The next 7 books of the Old Testament
• The Homeric Hymns
• Tao te Ching (Lao Tzu)

One or two titles beyond that, and I will be firmly entrenched in the Greek plays by December.