Title↕ | Author↕ | Year↕ | Genre↕ | Pages (approx)↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 | Historical Novel | 1,225 |
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | Realist Novel | 864 |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | Psychological Novel | 671 |
The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1880 | Philosophical Novel | 796 |
The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1869 | Psychological Novel | 656 |
Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1864 | Novella | 136 |
Demons | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1872 | Political Novel | 768 |
Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | 1842 | Satire | 464 |
The Overcoat | Nikolai Gogol | 1842 | Short Story | 48 |
Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | 1862 | Realist Novel | 226 |
Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin | 1833 | Novel in Verse | 240 |
The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 1967 | Magical Realism | 384 |
Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 1957 | Historical Novel | 592 |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1962 | Novella | 182 |
The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | 1904 | Play | 96 |
Lady with the Dog | Anton Chekhov | 1899 | Short Story | 30 |
A Hero of Our Time | Mikhail Lermontov | 1840 | Novel | 224 |
Oblomov | Ivan Goncharov | 1859 | Realist Novel | 576 |
We | Yevgeny Zamyatin | 1924 | Dystopia | 226 |
Life and Fate | Vasily Grossman | 1980 | War Novel | 896 |
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