"It’s a new year, and resolutions are flying left and right — although, it has been two weeks, so certain pledges have probably already crashed and burned. Here’s one that’s always on everyone’s mind, beginning of the year or no: how to be a better person. Well, since science keeps proving that reading literary fiction accomplishes that very fact, why not attack a novel in order to spruce up your heart and mind? After the jump, 50 novels (with a couple cheats) to make you kinder, cleverer, more productive, and a whole lot more open to the experience of others. Check them out and let us know which novels have made you a better person in 2014 or any other year in the comments."
--- Emily Temple, Flavorwire
