OT: What is your favorite literary work?

<p>I am not as avid of a reader as I used to be
but I am searching for a literary work which exemplifies florid and polished writing which proves to be both compelling in narrative and innovative stylistically
I am looking for some new reading material</p>

<p>FYI I am a huge fan of Hawthorne and Huxley</p>

<p>any advice?</p>

<p>Flaubert
Hamsun
Nabokov
Malamud
Auster</p>

<p>Leisure: Tolkien
Hayek (Road to Serfdom basically encompasses my whole political philosophy)</p>

<p>Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy</p>