Everyone should have a project for the summer months. I have plenty of writing projects all ready, but I thought I should have a reading one too. Not just that list of books I want to read and plan to work my way through, something a bit more… structured. Which I can write about here.

And I’ve come up with just the thing. I have on my book-shelves three quintets I really want to read – and which, coincidentally, I have to date only read the first book of each. The quintets are:-

The Canopus in Argos Archives, Doris Lessing

1. Shikasta
2. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
3. The Sirian Experiments
4. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
5. The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

The Bold as Love Cycle, Gwyneth Jones

1. Bold as Love
2. Castles Made of Sand
3. Midnight Lamp
4. Band of Gypsies
5. Rainbow Bridge

The Marq’ssan Cycle, L Timmel Duchamp

1. Alanya to Alanya
2. Renegade
3. Tsunami
4. Blood in the Fruit
5. Stretto

Starting in July, I’m going to work my way through the fifteen books listed above. I’ll decide once I’ve begun whether to post per book or per quintet.