[Aquinasfan]

Brothers Karamazov. It's not as pretentious and boring as it sounds. In fact, it seems to me to be more "modern" than modern novels. Best one I've read anyway.

[PJ-Comix]

I'll check it. BTW, it seems that Russia has the best novelists. However, good as those novels are in English, Russian speakers tell me they are even better in the original Russian. I love all of Solzhenitsyn's novels, even his lesser known works. Check out Lenin In Zurich. It is a novel about Lenin in exile in Switzerland. Interesting stuff.