Big Books of 2026

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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyLife and Fate by Vasily GrossmanCancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Best Post WWII Soviet Lit
57 books — 74 voters
Night Watch by Sergei LukyanenkoMetro 2033 by Dmitry GlukhovskyDe meester en Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDokter Zjivago by Boris PasternakWhite Shanghai by Elvira Baryakina
Modern Russian novels in translation
92 books — 28 voters

Дом, в котором... by Mariam PetrosyanКысь by Tatyana TolstayaЗулейха открывает глаза by Guzel YakhinaЧапаев и Пустота by Виктор ПелевинЛавр by Eugene Vodolazkin
Best Modern Russian (1991-current) Literature
104 books — 51 voters
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichWar's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana AlexievichSofia Petrovna by Lydia ChukovskayaRequiem by Anna AkhmatovaSelected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
Best Books by Female Writers in Russian
159 books — 66 voters

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDead Souls by Nikolai GogolOblomov by Ivan GoncharovA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail LermontovFathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
A Russian reading list for the next two years
211 books — 32 voters
Love Is Never Past Tense... by Janna YeshanovaOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
History through Novels: 1900s/2000s Russia
67 books — 66 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Social History
291 books — 86 voters