There are a lot of classics I haven't even touched so my list is going to lean heavily in that department. Please feel free to leave recommendations:
1. The Book of Negroes
2. Crime and Punishment
3. A Tale of Two Cities
4. Great Expectations
5. Madame Bovary (in French)
6. Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi
7. Something by Chabon...either The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay or the Yiddish Policemen's Union
8. The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
9. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (2011's Giller prize winner)
10. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
11. Of Mice and Men
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. War and Peace
14. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or Hitler's Scientists
15. The English Patient
16. Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
It's going to be a heavy year in reading!!
Wow, I love what your doing. I only day dream about reading the books on your list. Perhaps one day I will get to your literary level.
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