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Walter Mosley's Top Literary Picks

Posted Nov 6, 07 4:10 PM CST in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Walter Mosley has won accolades from readers and critics alike for his Easy Rawlins detective series, and the novelist has a philosophical side, too. Newsweek presents his list of important works that "most greatly impacted the intelligence, potential and humanity of the people of the world."

  1. The Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein
  2. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
  3. Das Kapital, Karl Marx

  1. The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
  2. The Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Author Walter Mosely attends the 80th anniversary celebration of Harlem's Schomburg Center at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, in this file photo from Oct. 6, 2006. Mosley, author of "Devil in a Blue...   (Associated Press)
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