Resolve to Read 50 Books

I love to read, but I never get enough time to read all the books that I want to read. That’s why I’m excited to commit to HPB’s Resolve to Read 50. That’s right – I am committing to reading at least 50 books this year. Now, I just need to pick the books! I want to read some older books that I’ve never read but also a lot of the new books that have come out in the last few years (and some that will be coming out this year) that I really want to read. Here is what my list will probably look like.


  1. Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner
  2. The Last Wish, by Andrzej Sapkowski
  3. Game On, by Janet Evanovich
  4. The Love Hypothesis, by Ali Hazelwood
  5. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margret Atwood
  6. Better Off Dead, by Lee Child
  7. Bad Luck Bridesmaid, by Alison Rose Greenberg (January 2022)
  8. The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune
  9. Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens
  10. We Are Not Like Them, by Christina Pride & Jo Paizza
  11. Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  12. The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henriquez
  13. Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose
  14. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
  15. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, by Grady Hendrix
  16. Saturday, by Ian McEwan
  17. On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
  18. Meet Me in the Margins, by Melissa Ferguson (February 2022)
  19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
  20. Grave Peril, by Jim Butcher
  21. Whose Body?, by Dorothy L. Sayers
  22. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil F. Frankweiler, by E.L.Konigsburg
  23. The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
  24. Ross Poldark, by Winston Graham
  25. Shakespeare for Squirrels, by Christopher Buckley
  26. First Comes Like, by Alisha Rai
  27. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
  28. The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett
  29. People We Meet On Vacation, by Emily Henry
  30. Will, by Will Smith
  31. House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende
  32. Read Dangerously, by Azar Nafisi (March 2022)
  33. All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds
  34. Billy Summers, by Stephen King
  35. Mort, by Terry Pratchett
  36. A Girl’s Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson
  37. Beasts & Beauty, by Soman Chainani
  38. The Good Terrorist, by Doris Lessing
  39. Very Good, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
  40. Letters to Wendy’s, by Joe Wenderoth
  41. All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
  42. Let’s Not Do That Again, by Grant Ginder (April 2022)
  43. When Can We Go Back to America, by Susan H. Kamei
  44. The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
  45. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
  46. Body Movers, by Stephanie Bond
  47. A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
  48. Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
  49. There, There, by Tommy Orange
  50. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As you can see, I love to read all sorts of books. What would your list look like? Visit HPB.com/resolve to sign up to Resolve to Read 50 (where you could win a $50 gift card) and then download their printable reading list where you can keep track of the books you read this year and even rate them. Then, share your list on social media with #HPB50.

Happy Reading!