Best Eastern European novels

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The Rules

Michal Ajvaz: Cesta na jih (Journey to the South)
Ivo Andrić: Na Drini ćuprija (The Bridge on the Drina)
Jerzy Andrzejewski: Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds)
Miklos Bánffy: Megszámláltattál (They Were Counted)
Andrei Bely: Петербург (Petersburg)
Jurij Brezan: Krabat oder Die Verwandlung der Welt [Krabat or the Transformation of the World]
Mikhail Bulgakov: Мастер и Маргарита (The Master and Margarita)
Mircea Cărtărescu: Solenoid
Regina Ezera: Aka [The Well]
Georgi Gospodinov: Естествен роман (Natural Novel)
Jaroslav Hašek: Osudy Dobrého Vojáka švejka Za Svetové Války (The Good Soldier Schweik)
Oles Honchar: Собор (The Cathedral)
Bohumil Hrabal: Příliš hlučná samota (Too Loud a Solitude)
Slavko Janevski: Чудотворци (Miracle Workers)
Ismail Kadare: Dimri i madh [The Great Winter]
Ivan Klíma: Soudce z milosti (Judge on Trial)
Ladislav Klíma: Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha (The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch)
György (George) Konrád: A látogató (The Case Worker)
László Krasznahorkai: Sátántangó (Satantango)
Jaan Kross: Keisri hull (The Czar’s Madman)
Andrey Kurkov: Серые пчелы (Grey Bees)
Boris Pasternak: Доктор Живаго (Doctor Zhivago)
Milorad Pavić: Hazarski recnik. Roman-leksikon u 100.000 reci (Dictionary of the Khazars, a Novel-Lexicon in 100,000 Words)
Peter Pišt’anek: Rivers of Babylon (Rivers of Babylon)
Josef Škvorecký: Príbeh inzenýra lidských dus (The Engineer of Human Souls)
Vladimir Sharov: До и во время (Before and During)
Mikhail Shishkin: Венерин Волос (Maidenhair)
Miklós Szentkuthy: Fekete Reneszánsz (Black Renaissance)
Olga Tokarczuk: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead)
Vladislav Vančura: Markéta Lazarová
Stanisław Witkiewicz: Nienasycenie (Insatiability)