One might consider Satan a hero. I simply must read Mill on the Floss now, but I do have the ability to read more than one book at a time. I have also read some of Augistine's Confessions, but it was such a long time ago, and truly I have always meant to return to them. I am also interested in delving into Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. I had professor in college who insisted on reading Middle March every spring.
Some books deserve to be read once a year.
Lawerence Durell's Justine is is a novel I recently re-read. I highly reccommend it. The prose is concomitant to poetry. It evokes the hot dessicating heat of Alexandria Egypt in such a way that you desire watermelon to slake your needs to physically experience the novel. And, such lambent philosphies on love expressed in the characters.