Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's "War and peace" tops the best book list by Newsweek

**Hors** · 07-06-2009, 08:43 PM

http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q...Newsweek's

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**Útrám** · 07-06-2009, 08:50 PM

I'm an avid Dostoevsky fan, but I must say this is a very sound choice.

**Electronic God-Man** · 07-06-2009, 08:51 PM

I've only read 6 out of the top 20.

I think it's because a lot of those books are so talked about that I feel like I already know them, which of course isn't true.

About War and Peace, I read it for a philosophy class and we looked at it in that way. The people that others consider to be leaders always have the least amount of power to act on their own will.

Lolita was awesome, btw.