Every year one of my New Year’s resolutions is to read a book I have always wanted to read but haven’t, whether it was a classic or just a few years old. One year I read Brontë’s Wuthering Heights; another year I read Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, and just last year I read Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. This year I’m Resolving to Read Dickens’ Great Expectations. However, I wondered what books other people were Resolving to Read this year. So, I asked our HPB bibliomaniacs what books they have always wanted to read that they are Resolving to Read this year. Here are their answers.
- Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
- Underworld, by Don DeLillo
- Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, by J. Anthony Lukas
- Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann
- The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
- At Swim, Two Boys, by Jamie O’Neill
- Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
- The 42nd Parallel, by John Dos Passos
- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
- Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
- Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story, by Richard Preston
- The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
- Dune, by Frank Herbert
- East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Host, by Stephenie Meyer
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- What Alice Forgot, by Liane Moriarty
- The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil
- Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
- The Art of Asking, by Amanda Palmer
- The Sandman series, by Neil Gaiman
- The Dark Tower series, by Stephen King
- A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas
- The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
- The Path Between the Seas, by David McCullough
- Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre
- In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust
- House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Louder than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Heavy Metal, by Jon Weiderhorn and Katherine Turman
- The Revenant, by Michael Punke
- Magick Without Tears, by Aleister Cowley
- Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
- Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert
- The Black Arrow, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Bible
- Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
- Storm Front, by Jim Butcher
- Iced, by Karen Marie Moning
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- Thanking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
- The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
- Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
- City of Ashes, by Cassandra Clare
- Interview with a Vampire, by Anne Rice
- The Glass Bead Game, by Herman Hesse
- The Danger of Music, by Richard Taruskin
- The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
- The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx
- A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
- Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue
- Mischling, by Affinity Konar
- Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
- The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
- Collected Works of Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare
- The Game of Thrones series, by George R.R. Martin
- The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing
- The Princess Casamassima, by Henry James
- King Rat, by China Mieville
- Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers
- All Men are Mortal, by Simone De Beauvoir
- Killing Reagan, by Bill O’Reilly
- Trump: The Art of the Deal, by Donald Trump
- Gifted Hands, by Ben Carson
- Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
- American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- A Man Called Ove, by Frederik Backman
- By Land, Sky & Sea: Three Realms of Shamanic Witchcraft, by Gede Parma
- The Art of Fermentation, by Sandor Ellix Katz
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- Iron Lake, by William Kent Krueger
- Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
- Our Revolution, by Bernie Sanders
- The Thing Around Your Neck, by ChimamandaNgozi Adichie
- Pastoralia, by George Saunders
- Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewsky
- Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
- The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens
- The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- The Stranger, by Albert Camus
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
- The Shepherd’s Crown, by Terry Prachett
- Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
- The Plague, by Albert Camus
- The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, by Mark Haddon
- The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter, by John Pipkin
- A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
- Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
So, what books have you always wanted to read that you are Resolving to Read this year?
Typo on #48 (thinking)
Gone with the wind!
Do you have any more copies of the book “Down the Rhodes” by Gerald McCauley and Benjamin Bove. Please advise my at gerry@p-xm.com. Need more copies.
War and Peace. It was always intimidating but this is the year!
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I love this list!
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Started Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World last week…. seemed appropriate.
Haha, so true!
Books from elementary school I enjoyed and would like to read again. They inspired me to be a reader early on!The series the Box Car children.
Great ideas! I’ve only read 5 of these so far.
It seems a bit unfair to throw in several books just published in 2016. They take up spaces that could go to War and Peace, Rebecca, more Dickens, etc.
Rebecca-definitely a must read. The sequel, Mrs. DeWinter, is also good.
Shocking lack of non Eurocentric authors!