Originally Posted by
jackb
Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Stendahl: Red and Black
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Dickens: David Copperfield
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Gaskell: Wives and Daughters
Eliot: Middlemarch
James: Portrait of a Lady
Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Fitzegerald: The Great Gatsby
Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Melville: Moby Dick
Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter
Can't say that I've read all, or even most, but some of them are among my favorites.
Anna Karenina and
Crime and Punishment are right near the top of my list, though my Dickens of choice is
Our Mutual Friend. I loved
Heart of Darkness and am constantly amazed that Conrad was writing in something other than his native language. Some people think me odd at times, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that my favorite Faulkner was
As I Lay Dying.