Completists' Club discussion

I'm limiting this list to what's available in English. Even so, there's plenty on here that only a die-hard Solzhenitsyn fan would be willing to slog through.

Novels and Short Stories
A Storm in the Mountains
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
An Incident at Krechetovka Station, also translated as We Never Make Mistakes
Stories and Prose Poems, includes Matryona's Place
For the Good of the Cause
In the First Circle
Cancer Ward
The Red Wheel cycle
---August 1914
---October 1916, translated as November 1916 due to calendar differences
---March 1917
---April 1917, not translated yet
---Lenin in Zurich, separately published excerpt of some chapters
Apricot Jam, a collection of stories

Plays
Candle in the Wind
The Love-Girl and the Innocent, also translated (unfortunately) as The Tenderfoot and the Tart
Prisoners
Victory Celebrations

Poetry
Prussian Nights

Nonfiction
Gulag Archipelago
Nobel Lecture
A Letter to the Soviet leaders
The Oak and the Calf
Warning to the West
Harvard Commencement Address
The Mortal Danger: Misconceptions about Soviet Russia and the Threat to America
Pluralists (political pamphlet)
Godlessness, the First Step to the Gulag
Rebuilding Russia
The Russian Question
Invisible Allies
Two Hundred Years Together
From Under the Rubble (one of seven contributors)

I've read everything except A Storm in the Mountains, March 1917, The Oak and the Calf, Rebuilding Russia, The Russian Question, Invisible Allies, and Two Hundred Years Together.

For the Good of the Cause is his worst novel, probably because it is the most simplistic. Cancer Ward is one of my all-time favorite books. The Red Wheel cycle is good if you like historical fiction, although it can be rather dry. I found all the plays to be surprisingly bad- I think Solzhenitsyn simply didn't have a grasp of how to write for the stage. Gulag Archipelago is, of course, a tremendous accomplishment, both on its own and for the influence it had on opinions of the Soviet regime. The rest of Solzhenitsyn's nonfiction is... questionable. I admire his passion, but his views tend to be so extreme as to be alienating. In general, I don't think anything he wrote after 1985 (when November 1916 was published) is worth reading unless you're a Solzhenitsyn scholar.