War and Peace is infinite. As an aesthetic artifact it rivals the masterworks of what once we regarded as literary culture: Tanakh, Iliad, Athenian tragedy, Plato, Pindar, Lucretius, Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, Rabelais, Cervantes, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Milton, Molière, Racine, Swift, Pope, Goethe, Rosseau, Blake, Wordsworth, Pushkin, Leopardi, Dickens, Melville, Walt Whitman, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Chekhov, Ibsen, Yeats, Proust, and Joyce.
Tanakh, or the Hebrew Bible, which the old Tolstoy taught himself to read in the original; Homer; Dante; Chaucer; Cervantes; above all Shakespeare: these stand with War and Peace. I myself would add Milton, Goethe, Moby-Dick, Whitman. After that it is a question of individual taste and judgment.