... up to number 2.
Now that I have finished War & Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, I can now give this great book a more solid ranking. I knew with certainty that it would be a top 10, so I put it at number 8 to insure it would have a spot reserved.
A great, great book. I couldn't unseat Ben, but I gave this some thought. As I revisited my list one last time, number 2 just felt right. Tolstoy nails human nature so perfectly that it rings as true today as when it was written in the 1800s.
So, the final list now looks like this:
20. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell and Moonwalking with Einstein, by Josh Foer.
19. Downtown Owl, by Chuck Klosterman.
18. The Book of Basketball, by Bill Simmons.
17. Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy.
16. Guns Germs & Steele, by J. Diamond.
15. Bearing the Cross, by David Garrow.
14. Brothers Karamozov, by Fyodore Dostoyevsky.
13. Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.
12. 1984, by George Orwell.
11. Memoirs of the Second World War, by Winston Churchill.
10. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodore Dostoevsky.
9. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger.
8. Old Man and the Sea, by Earnest Hemmingway.
7. A World Apart, by Gustaw Herling
6. The First American, by H.W. Brands.
5. A Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
4. Simple Justice, by Richard Kluger.
3. Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns-Goodwin.
2. War & Peace, by Leo Tolstoy.
1. Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin.
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