I have been reading Finnegans Wake over the course of this year, a few pages a day, along with a group over on reddit. It is one of the very few things that still keeps me visiting reddit at all.
Since the group are aiming to have a few weeks to review the book, I now have only two weeks before finishing it. It has been quite a ride, hovering right on the edge of comprehension at best - and usually some way beyond.
Last year, I read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, and the year before War and Peace - which makes particular sense in this format, since there are 365 chapters.
Anyhoo, I am now giving thought to my next annual big read. Some options are The Brothers Karamazov, Gravity’s Rainbow, and Crime and Punishment but I sm undecided and would like to consider some others.
Have you done anything of the sort? Do you have any suggestions?
EDIT - and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms sounds like an interesting one too.
It is over on /r/TrueLit
The have been doing FW over this year - and they also vote for other, shorter, readalongs (just voting for another now, I think), but I have not joined any of those,
I don’t know whether it would work here. I feel that getting enough people interested in a particular title to make it viable would be the issue - since a lot of people will inevitably drop out for one reason or another over the course of the year.
With the other titles in previous years there were dedicated subreddits - but not private or anything.
Great write up. Thanks for making the post and this follow up comment. For what it’s worth, to answer your original question, you can’t go wrong with Brothers Karamazov. It’s one of my personal favorites, and if you’re into character-driven vs plot-driven reads you’re in for a treat