Please recommend some good books - preferably something along the lines of Anna Karenina..but I'm open to anything as long as it's interesting.

Thanks!

i've only read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, but that is genius.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is my absolute favourite one! Its very different form Anna Karenina though, mixing philosophy with phantasmagoria and sarcasm.


Another one of my favourite authors is Ivan Bunin. He mostly wrote short stories, rather than novels, but it is very very Russian in spirit. He's got the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Other popular choices would be Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Probably more in line with Anna Karenina. Pasternak was also awarded the Nobel prize, but was forced to refuse it by the Soviet government.

agree. solzhenhitsyn's one day in the life of ivan denisovitch is quick to read. the willets translation is meant to be the best

i have loads of tolstoy and dostoyevsky and solzhenhitsyn at my house that i haven't gotten to read yet. maybe i'll hit some up on the plane. dunno.

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