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Anna Karenina
1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment
1866 Russian-language novel by Dostoyevsky
War and Peace
1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov
1879 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Master and Margarita
novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
Lolita
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being
Eugene Onegin
novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin
The Idiot
novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Doctor Zhivago
1957 historical novel by Boris Pasternak
Demons
novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground
1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Gambler
1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fathers and Sons
1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev
The Captain's Daughter
1836 novel by Aleksandr Pushkin
Resurrection
1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart of a Dog
1925 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
Taras Bulba
novella by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol
We
1924 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Mat'
1907 novel by Maxim Gorky
The House of the Dead
novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And Quiet Flows the Don
1928 novel by Mikhail Sholokhov
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1886 novella by Leo Tolstoy
The Twelve Chairs
1928 novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
Oblomov
Oblomov (, ) is the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman who seems incapable of making important decisions or undertaking any significant actions. Throughout the novel, he rarely leaves his room or bed. In the first 50 pages, he only manages to move from his bed to a chair.
Humiliated and Insulted
1861 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Double
1846 book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How the Steel Was Tempered
1932 novel by Nikolai Ostrovsky
Roadside Picnic
1972 novel Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Kreutzer Sonata
novella by Leo Tolstoy
The Little Golden Calf
1931 novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
The Cossacks
novel by Leo Tolstoy
First Love
novella by Ivan Turgenev
The Duel
novella by Anton Chekhov
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
novel by Nikolai Leskov
Professor Dowell's Head
novel by the Russian author Alexander Belyayev
Amphibian Man
1928 novel by Alexander Belyayev
Rudin
Rudin (, ) is the first novel by Russian realist writer Ivan Turgenev. Turgenev started to work on it in 1855, and it was first published in the literary magazine "Sovremennik" in 1856; several changes were made by Turgenev in subsequent editions.
Hard to Be a God
1964 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Defense
novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Dubrovsky
unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
novel by Tsjyngyz Ajtmatov
The Fatal Eggs
novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
Aelita
1923 novel by Tolstoy
The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino
fairy tale by Aleksey Tolstoy
Night Watch
novel by Sergey Lukyanenko
Mary
novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Asya
novella by Ivan Turgenev. Written in 1857, first published in 1858 in the first issue of the journal "Sovremennik" (Volume LXVII), 39-84.
Andromeda
1957 novel by Ivan Yefremov
The First Circle
book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Prisoners of Power
1969 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Scarlet Sails
novel by Alexander Grin
Peter the Great's Negro
unfinished historical novel by Aleksandr Pushkin, based on the life of his maternal great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a black African brought to Russia during the reign of Peter the Great
The Forged Coupon
novella by Leo Tolstoy
Monday Begins on Saturday
1965 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Laughter in the Dark
novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Definitely Maybe
1975 novel by Arkadi and Boris Stroegatski
Timur and His Squad
book
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
1970 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Torrents of Spring
novella by Ivan Turgenev
Chapayev and Void
1996 novel by Victor Pelevin