War and Peace is quite good. Many of the books mentioned have merit—both in the canon of literature and difficulty in readability. Some people don’t like the syntax of a translated poem like the Odyssey—that’s understandable—but it is an important text.
My vote for modern readable text that I’ve yet to finish is Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace. Really good and clever, but just too much. More of a “look at me” than a story.
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