Summer reads tier list

S(ublime):

  • Middlemarch (George Eliot)
  • The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
  • Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
  • Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)

A:

  • The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)

B:

  • My Struggle (Karl Ove Knausgård)
  • American Pastoral (Philip Roth)

D(id not finish):

  • On Beauty (Zadie Smith)

Notes: I would've uploaded this as a tier list image but apparently you can't upload images here. I'm not done with Swann's Way but the overabundance of highlighted passages indicates that it will slot into S tier. Souls of Black Folk in S tier on merit of Chapter 11 alone (the best work of non-ficton I've yet read).