Katy, of the ones you haven't read that I have read, I'd most encourage you to drop everything and read (1) David Copperfield, and (2) Paradise Lost, through.
Paradise Lost was another surprise peak reading experience of my life. I had read it before, but in an edition with at least three footnotes per page telling me what this or that word meant. Years later, someone gave me a nicely printed hardcover edition that didn't have a single footnote (just a few Blake prints here and there). I ended up reading it like a wonderful novel, and if I didn't understand a word or two here and there without footnotes, I just pushed on and it didn't matter in the slightest. I would urge anyone to find an edition without footnotes (hard to find, I think) and curl up for an amazing read.
Oh, and (3) Robinson Crusoe is also pretty fabulous, though not on the same level.
I've also not been able to read Don Juan straight through, though I did barely manage Childe Harold. And I've read only one book by Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) and nothing by Philip Roth.
For a while I tried to strike it rich by writing a legal thriller like Grisham, but one day it occurred to me that I had never succeeded in reading a Grisham so the odds of writing one were not good.
And I haven't read Trollope.
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