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Originally Posted by waxwing
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
But these have already been mentioned. How about:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
Personally have never enjoyed any of the British 19th C "classics" such as Dickens, Austen etc.
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except for lolita our reading hands seem to match quite well.
Did you read
Red Cavalry by Isaak Babel? it is not a novel but a collection of short stories.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I have a little story about this one.
Spoiler:
Instead of reading me she was passing most of her time with her pretty nose in this thick book. One day we were going somewhere and she was driving so I picked up her book and started to read it to her, with the idea that with that out of the scene she would notice how interesting were my features again. (BTW there was something wrong down deep as the story did not have an happy ending). In few minutes I was hooked to the story for good. I was rewarded years later as I was talking a walk with an other one and a couple of friends near the
Cataratas do Iguaçu, when I found my head surrounded by a cloud of little yellow butterflies, that followed me for a while. A great moment in my life