B says so. Although I am well aware that some unenlightened souls prefer to read “And Peace”, B always found those bits were unnecessary distractions from “War And”.
However, to be fair, he mainly enjoyed Anna Karenina for its discussions of Nineteenth Century Russian farming practices and railway timetabling.
With all this talk about the challenge of War and Peace, has anyone successfully read Finnegans Wake? I made it about two pages in.
No – I don’t think I got even that far. I’ve read JJ’s Ulysses a couple of times over the years and found parts of it brilliant (and other parts interminably boring), but life’s too short for Finnegans Wake.
Even though I had no issues reading all of the books by William S. Burroughs & J.G. Ballard way back when, Joyce has always eluded me.
You were lucky, you saved yourself. Others have not been that fortunate 
A Book Club Took 28 Years to Read ‘Finnegans Wake.’ Now, It’s Starting Over
Nope. The only things of Joyce’s that I’ve ever managed to read are Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
My only ‘goal’ is to finish Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” .
I’ll interweave that reading with whatever else grabs my attention. I’m currently reading “My Promised Land”.
It doesn’t seem to be included in the ‘official’ Slow Horses series, but make sure you also read The Secret Hours (if you are not reading it already).
I won’t say much more as it gives away the ‘twist’ but perservering to the end will reveal why.
Season 3 gets even better, if that’s possible
I’m not sure I can do a “next 3” books because I keep picking up books and starting them even though I already have other books started. My “currently reading” list has over 10 books on it 
(It’s not deliberate and I don’t recommend as a reading tactic, it’s very irritating.)
I don’t read much fiction nowadays. The titles I am favouring currently are:
I don’t tend to read much published from the last few decades except for work (with occasional exception). I prefer older titles that have already been tried and tested. Life is short and we will never be able to read all the books we want to read so I let time do some of the filtering for me.
I have started and abandoned War and Peace four times and simply accept that I do not care about the characters. You win some you lose some!
I am going back through the John McPhee series on audio: Annals of a Former World (Basin & Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California). Geologic history of our country and how the geology influences us. I will also re-read The Log from the Sea of Cortez by Steinbeck.
It’s not all Natural History - I have a book bub feed that gets me a number of low cost / kindle unlimited fiction recommendations. So, there is usually a backlog of some science fiction and various detective series. Orlando Sanchez, Nathen Lowell, Peter Ash,
I do pay full freight for Martin Walker (Bruno Chief of Police), Connely - Bosche / Lincoln Lawyer, and a few others.
I think it’s on the Amazon recommended for you list, so I’ll keep an eye out for a deal on it if - if I don’t finish this one first and then decide to keep going!
Elijahu, E. Samet
The Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides
Still waiting: Der Stern der Erlösung, Rosenzweig (3 trial to read it)
There’s a Season 3??? 
I couldn’t watch after Season 1 but does Season 2 introduce the Mule? That might interest me …
One author, Leo Tolstoy, but he wrote in Russuan.
You are seeing multiple translations.
Look for a translation published fairly recently. I really like the Norton Crtitical Edition of War and Peace. It’snucely typeset, intended for the classroom so has timelibnes, glosses, and essays,
I’m reading My Murder by Katie Williams.
Sorry, Season 3 of Slow Horses was released in December. Season 3 of Foundation has not been released yet.
Yes, once, I actually enjoyed it. But then again I have an 188? hardbound version of ALL the Dickens books courtesy of my Grandfather and I learned to read using them and let me tell you, when you are paid by the word you can get VERY verbose. 
The books currently in the rotation for reading, in no particular order
ProGit
Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson
How to Commit the Perfect Murder: Forensic Science Analyzed by David Malocco
The Celtic Stone by Nick Hawkes
Acellerando by Charles Stross
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Fuuture of the Human race by Walter Isaacson
Blood of Victory by Alan Furst
Genetic Conservation of Domestic Livestock Volume 2 by Lawrence Anderson and Imre Bodo
Practical Color Genetics for Livestock Breeders by D. Phillip Sponenberg
Christmas Pie by Jodi Taylor (actually a short story but I’m pacing myself)
There are a few more that I’m dipping in and out of mostly reference books but these are on the currently reading pile or on the first page on Kindle or Readwise apps.
I hope volume 2 is as good as volume 1!
Reading John Vaillant’s Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World right now. Gripping read. Reading it because it won the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. The books that win that prize seem to be consistently good, regardless of whether or not I am particularly interested in the topic or not. (I am partial to non-fiction—as is such, I particulary like all of the essay-like parts of Moby Dick, the parts I’ve heard people gripe about being tangential to the story itself…)