Russian Literature: What to Read

Russian Authors:

Golden Age:
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alexander Pushkin
Ivan Turgenev
Mikhail Lermontov
Nikolai Gogol
Ivan Goncharov

Silver Age:
Ivan Bunin
Maxim Gorky
Andrei Bely
Yevgeny Zamyatin

20th century:
Mikhail Bulgakov
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Vladimir Nabokov
Mikhail Sholokhov
Boris Pasternak
Vasily Grossman

Other:
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
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Books: 21

Leo Tolstoy:

• War and Peace
• Anna Karenina

Fyodor Dostoevsky:

• Crime and Punishment
• The Brothers Karamazov 

Alexander Pushkin: 

• Eugene Onekin

Ivan Turgenev:

• Fathers and Sons

Mikhail Lermontov:

• A Hero of Our Time 

Nikolai Gogol:

• Dead Souls 

Ivan Goncharov:

• Oblomov

Ivan Bunin:

• The Gentleman from San Francisco 

Maxim Gorky: 

• Mother

Andrei Bely:

• Petersburg

Yevgeny Zamyatin

• We

Mikhail Bulgakov:

• The Master and Margarita (highly recommended) 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 

Vladimir Nabokov:

• The Gift
• Lolita

Mikhail Sholokhov:

• And Quiet Flows the Don

Boris Pasternak:

• Dr. Zhivago

Vasily Grossman:

• Life and Fate

Nikolai Chernyshevsky:

• What is to be Done? 

Lyudmila Ulitskaya:

• The Funeral Party