Look for YouTube commentaries and blog posts. There aren’t as many blogs in general as there used to be but there were loads that focused on lesser known books, translated books, etc, and some will still be around. There might not be lots of comments, but the blog post itself will be fairly comprehensive.
I definitely, absolutely, have not had Vanity Fair on my list for about 8 years… It’s the page count; for some reason I’ve read longer books but Vanity Fair didn’t have me hooked straight away and then there were other books to read. I move it from one yearly list to the next and have restarted it twice. I should probably call it a day, really, but I do want to read it.
In more manageable times, I’ve had Neil Ansell’s The Circling Sky since July. I WILL get back to it.