1) Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace is on the Battles list)
2) Crime and Punishment/ Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
3) Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
4) Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
5) Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
6) Enchanted Wanderer, Nikolai Leskov
7) A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
8) In The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
9) The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
10) The Foundation Pit, Andrey Platonov
11) We, Evgenii Zamyatin
12) Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
13) Petersburg, Andrei Bely
14) Omon Ra, Victor Pelevin
15) Life and Fate/ Everything Flows, Vasily Grossman, trans. Robert Chandler
What about Grossman’s Life and Fate, or is that on one of the other lists?
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It’s on Battles, Blood and Books but sod it, I’m going to put it here too, because it’s brilliant.
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So many great suggestions! I’m going through a Russian phase and needed some suggestions.
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Thanks -and please let me know what you think of the books. I’d be interested to see what you choose!
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Good list – especially ‘We’. I loved that book
Only recently discovered Pelevin myself, so I’ve been on something of a splurge –
http://www.somnopolis.net/2010/01/11/the-russians-are-coming-the-russians-are-coming/
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