| Novels can explore ideas more thoroughly and powerfully than treatises. These particular works are not for the faint-hearted, but the adventurous mind may find them to be real page-turners, not to mention potentially life-altering. All of them are somehow about freedom; most of them are written by Russians. | ||
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| Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand $15.75 A classic. Profound, thoughtful, well-written. Slightly shorter than War and Peace! In a sense, it's an extended essay on the ... | The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky $12.24 One of the more profound books the world has to offer on the subject of freedom. A particularly good translation. | War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy $13.57 Who makes history? What does it mean? A massive thought experiment in causes and effects, not to mention human freedom. Oh, an... |
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| Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy $11.05 Oprah got this one right. | Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classi...
by Vasily Grossman $15.61 An epic, thoughtful novel about World War II in Russia. The Soviets arrested the manuscript of this book, and for good reason;... | Everything Flows (New York Review Books Cla...
by Vasily Grossman $10.76 Angry, didactic, and unfinished, this last Vasily Grossman novel indicts Lenin, not just Stalin. It is a useful epilogue to Li... |
Thick, Profound Novels
