The Big Book (was a brief note to stave off entropy) Update 2020.

Coming here to look for something, I notice that I haven't post in... a long while. For the sake of continuity, I'll be back to post my Year in Reading 2016 list (which I think I've written out somewhere) before too long. Right now, here's an updated version of the thing I came looking for--my now 20+ year habit of starting each year with a "big book" I "should have read" already.  (Those quotation marks show not only my qualms over the project as stated but also my occasional deviation from the broad parameters.)

1995 Ulysses
1996 Swann's Way
1997 Poetry of William Carlos Williams
1998 In Search of Lost Time
1999 Don Quixote
2000 The Divine Comedy
2001 The Cantos
2002 Middlemarch
2003 Bleak House
2004 Paradise Lost
2005 The Recognitions
2006 The Odyssey
2007 "A"
2008 Anna Karenina
2009 Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances
2010 Shakespeare's Histories and Tragedies
2011 Tom Jones
2012 Emily Dickinson, Complete Poetry
2013 Complete Fiction and Selected Non-Fiction, Jorge Luis Borges
2014 Romantic Poetry
2015 Gulliver's Travels
2016 Pride and Prejudice
2017 The Constitution of the United States and The Federalist Papers
2018 Robinson Crusoe

2019 The Hunchback of Notre Dame

2020 A Room of One's Own

2021 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell*