The Mandarins by Simone de bBeauvoir/b Roxana by Daniel Defoe Great Expectations by Charles Dickens -> I've actually labored through Dickens' English even as I've seen the movie too much, much later, which is a drag b...../b The Young bLions/b by Irwin Shaw ? what I've read is Rich Man, Poor Man A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute Maus by Art Spiegelman The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson A Sentimental Journey by Lawrence Sterne ...