Introduction

Hardcore Literature Book Club kicks off the new year with our first big read of the year, Tolstoy's masterpiece, war and peace. The rest of the year will include works like Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Thomas Pinchon's Gravity's Rainbow,. Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man., Milton's Paradise Lost, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. We'll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us and me, your host, Benjamin McAvoy. On the reading adventure of a lifetime with