I recommend anything by Hardy and Dickens, because I love the way they both used language. Dickens, with the neatly wrapped up happy endings, is a good antidote to the gloom and doom of Hardy.
Of Mice and Men goes quickly, if you want to mark another one off.
I reread Vanity Fair every few years. It never gets old for me.
Anna Karenina is like the Bible, in that every possible human emotion is there. I loved it! Also in translation: Les Mis and Madame Bovary. Both terrific stories. No Balzac? Odd.
I liked Love in the Time of Cholera, but couldn't get three 100 Years of Solitude.
The Lovely Bones and the Time Traveler's Wife were both good reads, but I'm not ready to put them on the must-read list. Lolita? Sure.
My walking partner recommended A Confederacy of Dunces just yesterday, as I was talking about the futility of filing.
The only thing I remember about A Woman in White is that I devoured it rapidly.
Of everything on the list you haven't read, I'd say that Vanity Fair and Anna Karenina are my favorites.
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I recommend anything by Hardy and Dickens, because I love the way they both used language. Dickens, with the neatly wrapped up happy endings, is a good antidote to the gloom and doom of Hardy.
Of Mice and Men goes quickly, if you want to mark another one off.
I reread Vanity Fair every few years. It never gets old for me.
Anna Karenina is like the Bible, in that every possible human emotion is there. I loved it! Also in translation: Les Mis and Madame Bovary. Both terrific stories. No Balzac? Odd.
I liked Love in the Time of Cholera, but couldn't get three 100 Years of Solitude.
The Lovely Bones and the Time Traveler's Wife were both good reads, but I'm not ready to put them on the must-read list. Lolita? Sure.
My walking partner recommended A Confederacy of Dunces just yesterday, as I was talking about the futility of filing.
The only thing I remember about A Woman in White is that I devoured it rapidly.
Of everything on the list you haven't read, I'd say that Vanity Fair and Anna Karenina are my favorites.