What To Read?

So I finished The Known World by Edward P. Jones last night and now have to pick my next book! This is always a huge ordeal for me, not only because I already have 50 plus books that I've purchased that I have yet to read, but because I have to be in the mood to read books and you never know if you're in the mood to read a certain book until you start. For example, I picked up and tried to read She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb two times and just couldn't get into it. The third time I tried I Really got into it and absolutely loved it. So I guess there's nothing to do but trial and error. I am going to attempt to finish The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner first. I only have about 100 pages left, I'd gotten stuck at the end of Quentin's section. He was so crazy and I was reading it when I was still pretty new at my job (and therefore exhausted and drained when I came home at night) that it was too much work for me to follow, so I set it aside for some easier reads. The hubs has a baseball game tonight, so hopefully I can finish it tonight, and then I'll really have to pick my next book.

I've narrowed it down to three: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (or Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy... I haven't quite decided what Tolstoy I'd go with). I'm also going on vacation next week with a long car trip (not that I can read in cars without getting sick, but that doesn't stop me from trying!) and I wanted a good hefty book to last me through the trip. Any suggestions from those choices? I'm definitely in the mood for classic and meaningful literature. The Known World was fabulous (isn't that such a grandiose word?) and it'll be hard to follow up. Funny mental image, can you image me laying on the beach with a big hard copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace propped up on me knee? Now that's what I call summer reading!