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mccheese's "Best Books in Russian Literature"

This is not "my" definitive list yet. Most of the 20th century is missing, but it’s a good start. This is the best order I can do for now – How can Onegin be third and not first, but then how can Margarita be lowered? It’s so impossible!
1. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
2. The Brothers Karamazov (Vintage Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
3. Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
by Alexander Pushkin
  
4. The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
5. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
6. Dead Souls (Everyman's Library)
by Nikolai Gogol
  
7.
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 Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog
by Georgii Nikolaevich Vladimov
  
8. Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
  
9. The White Guard
by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
  
10. Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
11.
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 Dr. Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
  
12. We (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
  
13.
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 The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
by Vladimar Voinovich
  
14. Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
15. Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
16. A School for Fools
by Sasha Sokolov
  
17. Envy (New York Review Books Classics)
by Yuri Olesha
  
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Created by mccheese on May 26, 2006.