Friday, December 14, 2012

The #spbkchat Russia list

This week the chat was all about Russia and its rich literature tradition.

Next week, with the festive season (and the Mayan apocalypse) closing in on us, we're talking all about Christmas.

Anyway, on to the list for Russia week!



Titles:
A Mirrored World
Madonnas of Leningrad
The Countess Under the Stairs
Imperial Highness
Russian Winter
Kirov saga (series)
The Bronze Horseman (series)
Gorky Park
Polar Star
Red Square
Sketches
Fathers and Sons
The Kitchen Boy
Middlemarch
Howl's Moving Castle
Dead Souls
Night Watch
Anna Karenina
The Secret History of Moscow
The Master and Margarita
Dr Zhivago
We
The Idiot
One Day in the Life of Alexis Denisof
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
A Hero of Our Time
Shadow Prowler

Authors:
Debra Dean
Eva Ibboston
Evelyn Anthony
Daphne Kalotay
Debra Dean
Helen Dunmore
Cynthia Harrold-Eagles
Paullina Simons
Martin Cruz Smith
Maria Rasputin
Felix Yusopov
Robert Alexander

Gogol
Ivan Turgenev
Akhmatova
Boris Pasternak
Mandelstam
Esenin
Sergei Lukyanenko
Victor Pelevin
Tatiana Tolstaya
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Ilona Andrews
Bukagov
Zamyatin
Dostoyevsky
Solzhenitsyn
Lermontov
Tolstoy
Alexey Polov
Peter Ustinov


Links:
http://www.theintrepidreader.com/2007/11/last-couple-of-days.html
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/113.Best_Russian_Literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Booker_Prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_literature
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Short_Stories_%28Bookshelf%29#Russia_.26_Scandinavia



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