Starting in college, I read this every year. I finally bought the unabridged version (about 1,000 pages), and I promptly stopped reading it every year.

I hope to read it this year.

Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Persuasion by Jane Austen (I like all her novels, but Persuasion is my fave)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Age of Innocence and The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens


And then, there's David Copperfield by Dickens. This is a sentimental favorite - because it's the first piece of classical literature I ever read. I was 9. Saw the miniseries on TV and decided I wanted to read the book. Let me tell you how people laughed at a 9-year-old lugging around that big, fat hardcover book. They thought I was kidding when I said I was reading it.

Starting in college, I read this every year. I finally bought the unabridged version (about 1,000 pages), and I promptly stopped reading it every year.

I hope to read it this year.