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CuriousG
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May 25, 8:27pm
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Interesting list, and as Kimi said, they help re-stir one's interest to read the unread.
6. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) -- Love this book!! I read it at the right time, in my 20s, so I could relate to both Lev and Anna.
9. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) -- Love this too, mainly because it felt charming throughout and had subtle humor, plus it was an anthropological telescope into a mysterious tribe (British upper class)
10. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) -- ugh, started and only got through 2 chapters, just couldn't connect.
Tied with LOTR:--To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) -- One of my all-time favorites! It ties with Watership Down as my #2 behind LOTR.
--Light in August (William Faulkner) -- really wanted to like it, as Faulkner is legendary, but felt like a slog and was happy to reach the last page.
Honorable mentions:
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe) -- recommend this one. A bit bleak, but still a good read. And I liked that Achebe said that reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and realizing he was one of the mindless, animalistic natives in that novel inspired him to write his own novel and show that Africans aren't mindless savages.
(A Wizard of) Earthsea (Ursula K. LeGuin) -- no-brainer. Re-read Tehanu a while ago, and it's a world apart from Wizard of Earthsea, jarringly so, but I just like following LeGuin's mind as it plays out on the page.
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) -- bit of a slog, but the Grand Inquisitor chapter was worth it all.
No Margaret Atwood anywhere? Philistines!!!! 
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