6. Moby-Dick | Herman Melville
It's a novel by Herman Melville, published in 1851. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship 'Pequod', for revenge on Moby Dick (a fictional giant sperm whale) that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literature's most famous.
7. War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy
It's a novel by Russian author Leo Tolstoy, published in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements & remains a classic of world literature. The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia & the impact of the Napoleonic Era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families: 'The Bezukhovs', 'The Bolkonskys', 'The Rostovs', 'The Kuragins' & 'The Drubetskoys'. Although a large portion of it focuses on war, Tolstoy constantly emphasizes the irrational motives for human behavior in both peace & war. Wisdom is linked not to reason but to an acceptance of how mysterious our actions can be, even to ourselves.
8. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John le Carré
It's a 1963 Cold War Spy Novel. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. It a sequel to previous novels Call for the Dead & A Murder of Quality, which also featured the fictitious British intelligence organization, "The Circus", and its agents George Smiley & Peter Guillam. It became an international best-seller after its publication.
9. Watchmen | Alan Moore
It's an comic book maxi-series by Alan Moore & his creative team, artist Dave Gibbons & colorist John Higgins. It was published by DC Comics in 1986 & 1987, and collected in a single volume edition in 1987. It depicts an alternate history in which superheroes emerged in the 1940s & 1960s, their presence changed history so that the United States won the Vietnam War & the Watergate break-in was never exposed. In 1985, the country is edging toward World War III with the Soviet Union, freelance costumed vigilantes have been outlawed & most former superheroes are in retirement or working for the government. The story focuses on the personal development & moral struggles of the protagonists as an investigation into the murder of a government-sponsored superhero pulls them out of retirement.
10. The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the final novel of Fyodor Dostoevsky. He spent nearly two years writing this novel, it was published in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880 as a serial. Dostoevsky died after its publication in less than four months. Set in 19th-century Russia, It's a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into questions of God, free will & morality. It is a theological drama dealing with problems of faith, doubt and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.
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