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I'd recommend Steinbeck's East of Eden and Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.

thanks! I've been delaying the read of Brothers Karamazov. I'll look for the Steinbeck's.

I second the Karamazov suggestion, and would say also War & Peace by the other great Russian, Tolstoi. One of the bests books I've read.