The top 10 books of all time

3. "War and Peace," by Leo Tolstoy

Isaac Babel is said to have proclaimed, after reading Tolstoy's 1869 masterpiece about a network of aristocratic Russian families and the Napoleonic invasion, "If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy." The book's length (more than 1,000 pages) may intimidate some readers, but many of its fans swear that they wish that it would never end.

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