I love Russian literature and am very much looking forward to this challenge. Lasts all of 2008. Click on the icon for more info.
My choices:
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Vapnyar
- Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
- Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
- War and Peace by Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
- Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak
- The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Vol. 2
Bonus/Alternates:
Natasha and Other Stories
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Grushin
Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Once upon the River Love by Makine
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Makine
Requiem for a Lost Empire by Makine
The Devil by Leo Tolstoy
My Life by Chekhov
The Eternal Husband by Dostoevsky
First Love by Turgenev
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
I think it’s great that you are doing this challenge. I have so many I’ve joined already and some lists that I haven’t posted yet. I think I’m going to have to pass on this one and, undoubtedly, a few others.
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