2008 Russian Reading Challenge
|
The Book |
The Author |
| Tales of Anton Chekhov: Volumes 1-13
Translated by Constance Garnett |
Checkhov, Anton* |
| A Life in LettersTranslated by Constance Garnett | Checkhov, Anton* |
| Crime and PunishmentTranslated by Constance Garnett | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor* |
| Dead Souls: A NovelTranslated by Pevear & Volokhonsky | Gogol, Nikolai* |
| The Precipice | Goncharov, Ivan |
| A Hero of our Time | Lermontov, Mikhail |
| Hope Against Hope | M’andelstam, Nadezhda* |
| Lectures on Russian Literature | Nabakov, Vladimir* |
| Lolita | Nabakov, Vladimir* |
| Dr. Zhivago | Pasternak, Boris |
| Years of Hope : The Story of a LifeTranslated by Joseph Barnes | Paustovsky, Konstantin* |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Solzhenitsyn, Alexander |
| The Russian Debutante’s Handbook | Shteyngart, Gary* |
| Sleepwalker in a Fog | Tolstaya, Tatyana* |
| The Slynx | Tolstaya, Tatyana* |
| The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other StoriesTranslated by Aylmer Maude | Tolstoy, Leo* |
| The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesTranslated by David McDuff | Tolstoy, Leo* |
| Anna KareninaTranslated by Pevear and Volokhonsky | Tolstoy, Leo* |
| War and PeaceTranslated by Pevear and Volokhonsky | Tolstoy, Leo* |
| ResurrectionTranslated by Rosemary Edmonds | Tolstoy, Leo* |
| First LoveTranslated by Isaiah Berlin | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich* |
| Evgeny Onegin | Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich |
| A volume of poetry, TBD | Akhmatova, Anna |
| Anna of all the Russias: A life of Anna Akhmatova | Feinstein, Elaine |
| THE WHISPERERS: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia | Figes, Orlando |
| Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia | Figes, Orlando |
| Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia | Tian-Shanskaia and Olga Semoyonova |
| Gulag: A History | Applebaum, Anne |
| Peter the Great | Massie, Robert |
*indicates a book recommended in Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose
December 14, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Looking forward to your reviews!
December 14, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Wow, very impressive list! I’m looking forward to reading your thoughts and reviews
December 16, 2007 at 8:50 am
Great list! I have The Precipice but thought I would start with Oblamov first. Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia is on my list, too
Looking forward to your reviews!