All terrific choices -- although I haven't read Tolstoy yet. My five changes as I read more, but I have really enjoyed Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Persuasion by Jane Austen; Moby Dick by Herman Melville; and Dracula by Bram Stoker. Don Quixote is a loooong book, but when I finished it I felt sad like a favorite long-running TV show had its series finale.
I've been wanting to read Don Quixote since reading The Idiot, but the size of the book kind of deters me. Moby Dick on the other hand I'm so prejudiced about even I find it ridiculous. I read Dracula this year and really enjoyed it.
The Brothers Karamazov is SO good! I loved War and Peace too. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are two of my favorite authors for sure. Also loved Middlemarch by George Eliot. I just adore really big books. I want all in. Almost forgot Gone with the Wind. Really good though I think the southern lost cause narrative is total nonsense.
Both Gone With The Wind and Middlemarch are on my list for this year. I agree about big books, once you get into them it's like being lost into this other world. I really enjoy that.
All terrific choices -- although I haven't read Tolstoy yet. My five changes as I read more, but I have really enjoyed Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Persuasion by Jane Austen; Moby Dick by Herman Melville; and Dracula by Bram Stoker. Don Quixote is a loooong book, but when I finished it I felt sad like a favorite long-running TV show had its series finale.
I've been wanting to read Don Quixote since reading The Idiot, but the size of the book kind of deters me. Moby Dick on the other hand I'm so prejudiced about even I find it ridiculous. I read Dracula this year and really enjoyed it.
The Brothers Karamazov is SO good! I loved War and Peace too. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are two of my favorite authors for sure. Also loved Middlemarch by George Eliot. I just adore really big books. I want all in. Almost forgot Gone with the Wind. Really good though I think the southern lost cause narrative is total nonsense.
Both Gone With The Wind and Middlemarch are on my list for this year. I agree about big books, once you get into them it's like being lost into this other world. I really enjoy that.