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Best Russian novels

The Modern Novel home page » My Lists home page » 12 Best Russian novels

The Rules

Vassily Aksyonov: Поколение зимы (Generations of Winter)
Andrei Bely: Петербург (Petersburg)
Andrei Bitov: Пушкинский дом (Pushkin House)
Mikhail Bulgakov: Мастер и Маргарита (The Master and Margarita)
Vasily Golovanov: Остров или Оправдание бессмысленных путешествий [Island or A Justification for Meaningless Travel]
Aleksandr Kuprin: Яма (Yama: The Pit; The Pit)
Sergei Lebedev: Предела забвения (Oblivion)
Leonid Leonov: Барсуки (The Badgers)
Boris Pasternak: Доктор Живаго (Doctor Zhivago)
Boris Pilnyak: Голый год (The Naked Year)
Andrei Platonov: Чевенгур (Chevengur)
Vladimir Sharov: До и во время (Before and During)
Mikhail Shishkin: Венерин Волос (Maidenhair)
Vladimir Voinovich: Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина (The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin)

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