Wondering whether to make a new list for 2017? These insights might influence you:

Lists of books we reread and books we can’t finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. — Russell Banks

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. — Eileen Myles

We like lists because we don’t want to die. — Umberto Eco