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 in 2017. 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.

1. Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
2. Underworld, by Don DeLillo
3. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, by J. Anthony Lukas
4. Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann
5. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
6. At Swim, Two Boys, by Jamie O’Neill
7. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
8. The 42nd Parallel, by John Dos Passos
9. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
10. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
11. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
12. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
13. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
14. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story, by Richard Preston
15. The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
16. Dune, by Frank Herbert
17. East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
18. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
19. The Host, by Stephenie Meyer
20. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
21. What Alice Forgot, by Liane Moriarty
22. The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil
23. Ulysses, by James Joyce
24. Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
25. The Art of Asking, by Amanda Palmer
26. The Sandman series, by Neil Gaiman
27. The Dark Tower series, by Stephen King
28. A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas
29. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
30. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
31. The Path Between the Seas, by David McCullough
32. Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre
33. In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust
34. House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
35. Louder than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Heavy Metal, by Jon Weiderhorn and Katherine Turman
36. The Revenant, by Michael Punke
37. Magick Without Tears, by Aleister Cowley
38. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
39. Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert
40. The Black Arrow, by Robert Louis Stevenson
41. The Bible
42. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
43. Storm Front, by Jim Butcher
44. Iced, by Karen Marie Moning
45. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
47. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
48. Thanking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
49. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
50. The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
51. Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
52. City of Ashes, by Cassandra Clare
53. Interview with a Vampire, by Anne Rice
54. The Glass Bead Game, by Herman Hesse
55. The Danger of Music, by Richard Taruskin
56. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
57. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
58. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx
59. A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
60. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
61. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62. Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue
63. Mischling, by Affinity Konar
64. Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
65. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
66. Collected Works of Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare
67. The Game of Thrones series, by George R.R. Martin
68. The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing
69. The Princess Casamassima, by Henry James
70. King Rat, by China Mieville
71. Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
72. Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
73. A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers
74. All Men are Mortal, by Simone De Beauvoir
75. Killing Reagan, by Bill O’Reilly
76. Trump: The Art of the Deal, by Donald Trump
77. Gifted Hands, by Ben Carson
78. Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
79. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
80. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
81. A Man Called Ove, by Frederik Backman
82. By Land, Sky & Sea: Three Realms of Shamanic Witchcraft, by Gede Parma
83. The Art of Fermentation, by Sandor Ellix Katz
84. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
85. Iron Lake, by William Kent Krueger
86. Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
87. Our Revolution, by Bernie Sanders
88. The Thing Around Your Neck, by ChimamandaNgozi Adichie
89. Pastoralia, by George Saunders
90. Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewsky
91. Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
92. The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens
93. The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
94. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
95. The Stranger, by Albert Camus
96. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
97. The Shepherd’s Crown, by Terry Prachett
98. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
99. The Plague, by Albert Camus
100. The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
101. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, by Mark Haddon
102. The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter, by John Pipkin
103. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
104. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
105. Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

So, what books have you always wanted to read that you are Resolving to Read this year?