Just finished: “A Walk on the Wild Side” by Nelson Algren.
Completing “The Metaphysical Club” by Louis Menard.
Just started: “Nicholas and Alexandra” by Robert K. Massie “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” and some other short fiction by Tolstoy, and “The Everlasting Man” by G.K. Chesterton.
Massie is an excellent author. Never read “Nicholas & Alexandra” but did read “Dreadnought” and “Castles of Steel.”