Literary Enorma

I was feeling ambitious a few Sundays ago, and I bought Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's almost 1,100 pages, and man is it hard to get through. There are certain passages and paragraphs that are riveting, but then there's so much wordiness that I get lost. In a Salon interview, DFW himself said, "I mean, this is caviar for the general literary fiction reader." And it's true, the book is so rich that I can only handle a little at a time. But I must persevere, because I made a winter reading list, and it's long:

• Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornsby
• Handmaiden's Tale, Margaret Atwood
• Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
• How We are Hungry, Dave Eggers
• Future Dictionary of America (not necessarily a sit-down-and-read type book, more of a coffee table book)
• No One's Even Bleeding, Lenny Castellaneta
• Best American Non-Required Reading 2004
• Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs

I also want to read some more David Sedaris, and read Everything is Illuminated again before the movie is released.

Any other suggestions?