A Vote! of a Different Color

Participation invited! Help me to choose my next fiction read! The last several years have not been good fiction years for me. Not to say that I haven't read good books: Dante Club, Lamb, etc. But, there aren't a lot of them. Much of my reading has been work-related (technology, business/management, etc.), or "life" non-fiction (baby/toddler, gardening, psych/self-help). This is a problem. So, I was casually perusing my bookshelves this morning over breakfast and contemplating what novel to read next. I have plenty of books that I haven't read, so won't be bothered by overdue fines at the library. Yes, I'm a librarian that can't turn in her books on time, so sue me.

The choices:
1) Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray. A Victorian classic. Would take me back to the time period of my English degree. I partly blame my grad school English experience as ruining me for fiction, so this would be a rehabilitative read. Plus, isn't a movie adaptation coming out? [added later: oh yeah, and then there's the Squeeze song]

2) Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Admittedly a different flavor than choice #1, a 20th-century classic. I remember having read this before (or starting it), but don't remember the details beyond the late-in-life love-story. Maybe the lushness of G-Marquez is what I need this summer?

3) a write-in candidate--suggestions of other reads?

Vote by leaving a comment. Caveat: this is not exactly a democratic election. I may go with what you pick (likely), or, I may not. Either way, I will enjoy the discussion.