/lit/ - Literature

ITT: books that are as long as Infinite Jest but actually worth reading.

I know this is an older list, and The Millions has done A Year in Reading list for every year since, but how many books have you read? Any thoughts on the list? Any chance some of these will be lasting reads?

The List:
>#20: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
>#19: American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman
>#18: Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
>#17: The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
>#16: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
>#15: Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis
>#14: Atonement by Ian McEwan
>#13: Mortals by Norman Rush
>#12: Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
>#11: The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
>#10: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
>#9: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
>#8: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
>#7: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
>#6: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
>#5: Pastoralia by George Saunders
>#4: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
>#3: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
>#2: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
>#1: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

>http://www.themillions.com/2009/09/the-best-fiction-of-the-millennium-so-far-an-introduction.html

Honorable Mentions:
>http://www.themillions.com/2009/09/best-fiction-of-the-millennium-so-far-honorable-mention.html

The Longlist:
>http://www.themillions.com/2009/10/best-fiction-of-the-millennium-so-far-the-longlist.html

i'm about to start reading this book

wish me luck, /lit/