Anna Karenina is an example of something I don’t really need from a book but something I’m really impressed by when I see it. Fully developed characters that feel so real they feel almost like friends. I know how Levin or Oblonsky would act in almost any situation.

Less friends - because they’re all awful - but I felt the same about the characters in Revolutionary Road. They way they keep playing situations over in their mind until they emerged as the hero felt like something a genuine person would do- and perhaps something we’ve all been guilty at at some point in our lives.