I'm searching for fresh, truly worthwhile prose.
Books that have blown me away:
In Search of Lost Time
Oblomov
Middlemarch
The Good Soldier
Absalom, Absalom!
The Runaway Soul
Moby Dick
Caryle's History of the French Revolution
The Golden Bowl
Essays -- Emerson, Nietzsche, William James
Liked & respected: Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Dickens, Austen, the Brontes, Hardy, Conrad, Nabokov, Calvino, Borges, Marquez, Bernhard, Sebald
Haven't been able to get into most contemporary fiction though, but would like to -- if I can find works I love. Do not generally like minimalism, but I am open to suggestions.
What else might I truly love?