Holiday reading

I have just been watching Spanish CNN’s programme about books to read on holiday. In thirty minutes a writer and bookseller came up with:

• A fine edition of La Regenta by Valle-Inclán. A classic of Spanish literature, in a slip case like Folio Society books.
• A book by Alan Bennett about the reading habits of Queen Elizabeth II.
• A new translation of Kipling’s short stories.
• Patrick Leigh Fermor, ‘Walking to Constantinople’. ‘Of particular interest as he passes through Austria just after it became Nazi, as well as his interest in other cultures that he met on the way.’
• Henry James, London.
• Juan Benet, Londres victoriano
• Milena Agus, Mal de Piedras (Spanish title of an Italian novel)
• José Luis Pardo, a book about music that mentions Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles and Kafka
• Stieg Larson, a novel
• Jan Valtin, a novel
• Rafik Schami, a novel, a love story about a Christian and a Muslim in 1960s Damascus

I wonder what British CNN is proposing as summer reading.