With new book buying ban in 2017 I turn to my bookshelves and my Kindle, I won’t run short of things to read with around 400 books I hoarded in one form or another, so here’s what I would really want to read this year, a wishlist if you will. Just 40, less than last year, I wonder how many I’ll manage this time, last year I managed 13 out of 50, so it shouldn’t be difficult to do better. Some books will repeat, as I still want to read them.

Have you read any of them? Share in the comments!

links are to Amazon website, or to my review if marked (r)

• Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke – DNF, I give up on this one
• The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
• All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• Middlemarch – George Eliot
• The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
• Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
• Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• We Can Remember it For You Wholesale – Philip K. Dick
• House of Cards – Michael Dobbs
• The Ocean At The End Of The Lane – Neil Gaiman (r)
• A Winter Book – Tove Jansson
• Satantango – Laszlo Krasznahorkai
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré (r)
• Music for the Torching – A. M. Homes (r)
• How to be Both – Ali Smith
• The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
• Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
• The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
• The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood (r)
• Let Me Tell You – Shirley Jackson (r)
• Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
• House of Day, House of Night – Olga Tokarczuk (r)
• England, England – Julian Barnes (r)
• Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (r)
• Sofia Khan is not Obliged -Ayisha Malik (r)
• The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion (r)
• Somewhere Towards the End – Diana Athill (r)
• The Good Terrorist – Dorris Lessing
• Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• I Married a Communist – Philip Roth (r)
• This is London – Ben Judah (r)
• The Trouble with Goats and Sheep – Joanna Cannon (r)
• American Gods – Neil Gaiman (r)
• It – Stephen King (r)
• Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
• Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome (r)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver (r)
• Big Brother – Lionel Shriver (r)