The Calvert Journal - 100 Books to Read from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

1.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,838 ratings
2.
The Unwomanly Face of War
The Unwomanly Face of War 4.51 avg rating — 37,428 ratings
3.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,071 ratings
4.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 3.95 avg rating — 137,678 ratings
5.
The Eighth Life
The Eighth Life 4.53 avg rating — 30,524 ratings
6.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,133 ratings
7.
The Ministry of Pain
The Ministry of Pain 3.82 avg rating — 2,416 ratings
8.
Zuleikha
Zuleikha 4.39 avg rating — 17,592 ratings
9.
Death and the Dervish
Death and the Dervish 4.51 avg rating — 10,742 ratings
10.
Demons
Demons 4.30 avg rating — 59,723 ratings
11.
Klotsvog
Klotsvog 4.05 avg rating — 154 ratings
12.
Three Apples Fell from the Sky
Three Apples Fell from the Sky 4.23 avg rating — 18,314 ratings
13.
Flights
Flights 3.75 avg rating — 35,854 ratings
14.
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex 3.74 avg rating — 3,292 ratings
15.
Days in the Caucasus
Days in the Caucasus
by: Banine
4.08 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
16.
Odessa Stories
Odessa Stories 3.83 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
17.
Poems New and Collected 1957-1997
Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 4.42 avg rating — 3,533 ratings
18.
Selected Poetry
Selected Poetry 4.12 avg rating — 113 ratings
18.
The Palace Of Dreams
The Palace Of Dreams 3.95 avg rating — 5,974 ratings
20.
Soul and Other Stories
Soul and Other Stories 4.08 avg rating — 2,185 ratings
21.
I Served the King of England
I Served the King of England 4.06 avg rating — 10,019 ratings
22.
The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1) 4.33 avg rating — 24,210 ratings
23.
Trans-Atlantyk
Trans-Atlantyk 3.78 avg rating — 4,492 ratings
24.
The Good Life Elsewhere
The Good Life Elsewhere 3.51 avg rating — 695 ratings
25.
Natural Novel
Natural Novel 3.87 avg rating — 5,089 ratings
26.
Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod
Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod 4.21 avg rating — 10,154 ratings
27.
Imperium
Imperium 4.36 avg rating — 7,521 ratings
28.
Voroshilovgrad
Voroshilovgrad 4.01 avg rating — 3,665 ratings
29.
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales 3.61 avg rating — 4,524 ratings
30.
Life Begins on Friday
Life Begins on Friday 3.73 avg rating — 1,335 ratings
31.
Helping Verbs of the Heart
Helping Verbs of the Heart 3.59 avg rating — 376 ratings
32.
The White Ship
The White Ship 4.11 avg rating — 6,973 ratings
33.
The Mountain and the Wall
The Mountain and the Wall 3.48 avg rating — 322 ratings
34.
Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia
Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia 3.91 avg rating — 546 ratings
35.
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
The Case of Comrade Tulayev 4.12 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
36.
The Temptation to Exist
The Temptation to Exist 4.09 avg rating — 2,295 ratings
37.
On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs
On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs 4.24 avg rating — 385 ratings
38.
A Dream in Polar Fog
A Dream in Polar Fog 4.19 avg rating — 495 ratings
39.
Shadows on the Tundra
Shadows on the Tundra 4.36 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
40.
Invitation to a Beheading
Invitation to a Beheading 3.92 avg rating — 19,410 ratings
41.
The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy 4.18 avg rating — 14,324 ratings
42.
Satantango
Satantango 4.14 avg rating — 9,948 ratings
42.
Little Foxes Took Up Matches
Little Foxes Took Up Matches 3.84 avg rating — 782 ratings
44.
The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass 3.93 avg rating — 5,225 ratings
44.
Hadji Murat
Hadji Murat 3.85 avg rating — 14,763 ratings
44.
Bride and Groom
Bride and Groom 3.62 avg rating — 304 ratings
47.
F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry
F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry
by: Various
4.58 avg rating — 33 ratings
48.
Carbide
Carbide 4.02 avg rating — 955 ratings
49.
The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin 4.02 avg rating — 214 ratings
50.
A Wake for the Living: Poems
A Wake for the Living: Poems 3.93 avg rating — 55 ratings
51.
A Short Border Handbook
A Short Border Handbook 4.02 avg rating — 348 ratings
52.
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Memoirs of a Revolutionist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 100 ratings
53.
The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan
The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
54.
Journal 1935-1944
Journal 1935-1944 4.57 avg rating — 1,238 ratings
55.
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry 4.20 avg rating — 3,079 ratings
56.
Walker on Water
Walker on Water 3.67 avg rating — 82 ratings
57.
The Moscoviad
The Moscoviad 3.93 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
58.
Of Strangers and Bees
Of Strangers and Bees 3.62 avg rating — 99 ratings
59.
Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian
Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian 3.87 avg rating — 4,536 ratings
60.
The Natashas
The Natashas 3.46 avg rating — 284 ratings
61.
Quiet Flows the Una
Quiet Flows the Una 3.70 avg rating — 456 ratings
62.
Medea and Her Children
Medea and Her Children 4.07 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
63.
Out of the Fire
Out of the Fire 4.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
64.
The White Shroud
The White Shroud 4.07 avg rating — 7,563 ratings
65.
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich 4.13 avg rating — 3,469 ratings
66.
The Harvest of Chronos
The Harvest of Chronos 3.94 avg rating — 126 ratings
67.
Flight from the USSR
Flight from the USSR 3.93 avg rating — 3,903 ratings
68.
My Name Is Aram
My Name Is Aram 4.17 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
69.
The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia
The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
70.
A Spare Life
A Spare Life 4.17 avg rating — 362 ratings
71.
The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story
The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story 4.07 avg rating — 2,660 ratings
72.
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard 3.44 avg rating — 169 ratings
73.
Each Day Catches Fire
Each Day Catches Fire 4.53 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
74.
Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics) 3.70 avg rating — 390 ratings
75.
The Night Circus and Other Stories
The Night Circus and Other Stories 3.46 avg rating — 46 ratings
76.
Other Russias
Other Russias 4.24 avg rating — 463 ratings
77.
Negative Space
Negative Space 3.69 avg rating — 109 ratings
78.
The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind 4.27 avg rating — 4,725 ratings
79.
The Life of Arseniev: Youth
The Life of Arseniev: Youth 3.88 avg rating — 712 ratings
80.
Alindarka's Children
Alindarka's Children 3.73 avg rating — 135 ratings
81.
Five Plays
Five Plays 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
82.
Childe Harold of Dysna
Childe Harold of Dysna 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
83.
The Lost Country
The Lost Country 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
84.
Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War
Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
85.
Dancing in Odessa
Dancing in Odessa 4.20 avg rating — 2,364 ratings
86.
Notes from the Blockade
Notes from the Blockade 3.79 avg rating — 239 ratings
87.
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition 4.57 avg rating — 96 ratings
88.
Panorama
Panorama 3.77 avg rating — 77 ratings
89.
The Snows of Yesteryear
The Snows of Yesteryear 4.14 avg rating — 570 ratings
90.
My Husband
My Husband 4.01 avg rating — 4,682 ratings
91.
Life Went on Anyway: Stories
Life Went on Anyway: Stories 3.99 avg rating — 349 ratings
92.
Hurramabad
Hurramabad 3.51 avg rating — 88 ratings
93.
The Tongue Set Free
The Tongue Set Free 4.15 avg rating — 2,151 ratings
94.
Heirs to the Great Sinner Sheikh San'on
Heirs to the Great Sinner Sheikh San'on 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
95.
The Life Written by Himself
The Life Written by Himself 3.56 avg rating — 227 ratings
96.
King of the Rattling Spirits
King of the Rattling Spirits 4.11 avg rating — 159 ratings
97.
Resurrection
Resurrection 4.17 avg rating — 27,225 ratings
98.
Nostalgia
Nostalgia 4.22 avg rating — 4,727 ratings
99.
Kolyma Stories
Kolyma Stories 4.49 avg rating — 360 ratings
100.
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova 3.42 avg rating — 99 ratings
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