Our “desert island” selection

  1. Akhmatova, Anna – Selected Poems
  2. Akunin, Boris – Jack of Spades
  3. Babel, Isaac – Complete Works
  4. Bely, Andrei – Petersburg
  5. Blok – The Twelve
  6. Brodsky, Joseph – Poetry of the Angels
  7. Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita, Heart of a Dog
  8. Chekhov, Anton – Lady with a Lapdog, The Seagull
  9. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
  10. Dovlatov, Sergei – The Compromise
  11. Esenin, Sergei – Confessions of a Hooligan
  12. Fonvizin, Denis – The Minor
  13. Gogol, Nikolai – Dead Souls, The Overcoat and Other Stories
  14. Goncharov, Ivan – Oblomov
  15. Gorky, Maxim – The Lower Depths
  16. Griboedov, Alexander – Woe from Wit
  17. Ilf and Petrov – The Golden Calf, The Twelve Chairs
  18. Karamzin, Nikolai – Poor Liza
  19. Kharms, Daniil – Incidences
  20. Khlebnikov, Velimir – Selected Poems
  21. Krylov, Ivan – Krylov’s Fables
  22. Lermontov, Mikhail – A Hero of Our Time
  23. Leskov, Nikolai – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
  24. Leskov, Nikolai – The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories
  25. Mayakovsky, Vladimir – The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
  26. Nabokov, Vladimir – Speak, Memory, Lolita
  27. Nekrasov, Nikolai – Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia
  28. Olesha, Yuri – Envy
  29. Ostrovsky, Alexander – The Storm
  30. Pasternak, Boris – Doctor Zhivago
  31. Pelevin, Victor – Omon Ra
  32. Platonov, Andrei – Foundation Pit
  33. Pushkin, Alexander – Eugene Onegin, Queen of Spades
  34. Solzhenitsyn – A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  35. Tsvetaeva, Marina – Selected Poems
  36. Tolstaya, Tatiana – Sleepwalker in a Fog, Collected Stories
  37. Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina, War and Peace
  38. Turgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
  39. Zamiatin, Evgeny – We
  40. Zoshchenko, Mikhail – Short stories