I love complex classics, some some of them have so many characters that make it so I have to literally take notes to even understand who is in the scene (looking at you one hundred years of solitude). I'm looking for something where its easy to keep track of who the characters are, even if the themes and characters themselves are complex.
by Wonderful_Wonderful
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Call of the Wild
Read Dante’s Divine Comedy. There are maybe 3 important characters. Dozens of minor characters make an appearance, but check the footnote, get what you can from them, and move on.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Anna Karenina has several families of characters, but I found Tolstoy kept them distinct enough as to not be confusing. It’s an investment at 800+ pages but well worth it.
A few that come to mind are:
* Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
* Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
* Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
Candid.
I laughed so hard I spit up a parts of that book.