War and Peace 2025

News: The War and Peace slow read-along will run again in 2026. Its homepage is here, and a reading schedule will be released in November. To sign up, subscribe to Footnotes & Tangents and turn on notifications for “2026 War and Peace” in your settings.

Welcome to the main page for the 2025 slow read of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, a chapter a day.

• The Reading Schedule (with links to daily chat threads)

• The Weekly Updates (footnotes, tangents, summaries and discussion)

• The Characters of War and Peace (plot summaries for every character)

• For the impatient: The complete book guide from 2024

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Introduction and welcome pack:

Join the 2025 'War and Peace' Slow Read

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The weekly posts

W&P #48: Tell Your Story

W&P #47: We Are Stardust

W&P #46: Life After Death

W&P #45: The Drowned and the Saved

W&P #44: No More Heroes

W&P #43: Negative Numbers

W&P #42: Happy Feet

W&P #41: Fighting with Ghosts

W&P #40: Death's Door

W&P #39: Beyond Understanding

W&P #38: Phantoms and Reflections

W&P #37: The Unsettled Question

W&P #36: How Bees Die

W&P #35: The Value of Things

W&P #34: Evasive Manoeuvres

W&P #33: This Terrible Affair

W&P #32: Borodino

W&P #31: The Longest Night

W&P #30: Time and Patience

W&P #29: Marya's World

W&P #28: Life's Retreat

W&P #27: The Madding Crowd

W&P #26: Growing Pains

W&P #25: The Emperor's New Clothes

W&P #24: The Great Comet of 1812

W&P #23: A dramatic interlude

W&P #22: Natasha's battlefield

W&P #21: If life could write

W&P #20: The enchanted forest

W&P #19: Never Never Land

W&P #18: Lovers of light

W&P #17: The colour of the soul

W&P #16: A semblance of life

W&P #15: A hundred days of War and Peace

W&P #14: Two men in a boat

W&P #13: Regenerate me

W&P #12: The house of love and ruin

W&P #11: The hazards of love

W&P #10: Rostovaganza!

W&P #9: Infinite sky

W&P #8: Young blood

W&P #7: Daydreams and nightmares

W&P #6: Waiting for history to happen

W&P #5: A beautiful world made ugly

W&P #4: Fear and love at Bald Hills

W&P #3: A heart needs a home

W&P #2: Life at both ends

W&P #1: An invitation to a soirée

Welcome to War and Peace 2025

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