Greatest Russian Novels of All Time

1.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,499 ratings
2.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,212 ratings
3.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,479 ratings
4.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,965 ratings
5.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,039 ratings
6.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,624 ratings
7.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,153 ratings
8.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,255 ratings
9.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead 4.19 avg rating — 78,030 ratings
10.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,101 ratings
11.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,122 ratings
12.
Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 97,908 ratings
13.
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin 4.10 avg rating — 68,921 ratings
14.
We
We 3.88 avg rating — 107,846 ratings
15.
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time 4.11 avg rating — 62,642 ratings
16.
Demons
Demons 4.30 avg rating — 59,719 ratings
17.
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog 4.09 avg rating — 68,424 ratings
18.
Oblomov
Oblomov 4.13 avg rating — 41,549 ratings
19.
The Gambler
The Gambler 3.91 avg rating — 112,142 ratings
20.
And Quiet Flows the Don
And Quiet Flows the Don 4.11 avg rating — 12,974 ratings
21.
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward 4.26 avg rating — 17,570 ratings
22.
Mother
Mother 3.97 avg rating — 18,467 ratings
23.
Life and Fate
Life and Fate 4.45 avg rating — 14,755 ratings
24.
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories 4.12 avg rating — 16,586 ratings
25.
Resurrection
Resurrection 4.17 avg rating — 27,224 ratings
26.
Invitation to a Beheading
Invitation to a Beheading 3.92 avg rating — 19,410 ratings
27.
Home of the Gentry
Home of the Gentry 3.92 avg rating — 5,378 ratings
28.
The Overcoat
The Overcoat 4.15 avg rating — 49,039 ratings
29.
The First Circle
The First Circle 4.24 avg rating — 8,254 ratings
30.
The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead 4.05 avg rating — 33,987 ratings
31.
The Double
The Double 3.67 avg rating — 40,319 ratings
32.
Roadside Picnic
Roadside Picnic 4.13 avg rating — 81,965 ratings
33.
The Gift
The Gift 3.99 avg rating — 4,754 ratings
34.
Moscow to the End of the Line
Moscow to the End of the Line 4.03 avg rating — 12,689 ratings
35.
Notes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground 4.17 avg rating — 209,185 ratings
36.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,879 ratings
37.
Petersburg
Petersburg 3.97 avg rating — 5,600 ratings
38.
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Death of Ivan Ilych 4.14 avg rating — 205,007 ratings
39.
White Nights
White Nights 4.08 avg rating — 279,947 ratings
40.
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata 3.86 avg rating — 34,035 ratings
41.
Spring Torrents
Spring Torrents 3.95 avg rating — 5,583 ratings
42.
Envy
Envy 3.70 avg rating — 3,908 ratings
43.
The Nose
The Nose 3.95 avg rating — 14,010 ratings
44.
The Twelve Chairs
The Twelve Chairs
by: Ilya Ilf
4.39 avg rating — 24,131 ratings
45.
Jamilia
Jamilia 3.89 avg rating — 9,616 ratings
46.
The Foundation Pit
The Foundation Pit 3.78 avg rating — 6,235 ratings
46.
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Poor Folk and Other Stories 3.88 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
48.
The Slynx
The Slynx 3.81 avg rating — 5,497 ratings
49.
The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #1)
The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 14,048 ratings
50.
The Inspector General
The Inspector General 3.96 avg rating — 18,657 ratings
51.
The Letter Killers Club
The Letter Killers Club 3.75 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
52.
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years 4.33 avg rating — 7,898 ratings
52.
The Sebastopol Sketches
The Sebastopol Sketches 3.85 avg rating — 3,635 ratings
54.
Белая гвардия
Белая гвардия really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,737 ratings
55.
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 69,058 ratings
56.
The Luzhin Defense
The Luzhin Defense 3.94 avg rating — 15,461 ratings
57.
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
The Case of Comrade Tulayev 4.12 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
58.
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1 4.37 avg rating — 11,711 ratings
59.
Laurus
Laurus 4.22 avg rating — 11,526 ratings
60.
The Eternal Husband
The Eternal Husband 3.75 avg rating — 14,652 ratings
61.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 4.03 avg rating — 37,490 ratings
62.
Night Watch (Watch, #1)
Night Watch (Watch, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 44,873 ratings
63.
Pnin
Pnin 3.88 avg rating — 28,100 ratings
64.
Morphine
Morphine 4.06 avg rating — 10,902 ratings
65.
The Adolescent
The Adolescent 3.93 avg rating — 10,373 ratings
66.
Forty-Ninth
Forty-Ninth 4.13 avg rating — 127 ratings
67.
The Don Flows Home to the Sea, Vol 2
The Don Flows Home to the Sea, Vol 2 4.34 avg rating — 715 ratings
68.
Hard to Be a God
Hard to Be a God 4.12 avg rating — 17,723 ratings
69.
The Cossacks
The Cossacks 3.80 avg rating — 9,918 ratings
70.
Гранатовый браслет
Гранатовый браслет 3.74 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
71.
Bend Sinister
Bend Sinister 3.79 avg rating — 4,970 ratings
72.
The Living
The Living 3.39 avg rating — 880 ratings
73.
Чапаев и Пустота
Чапаев и Пустота 4.27 avg rating — 8,381 ratings
74.
Danilov, the violist: A novel
Danilov, the violist: A novel 4.05 avg rating — 582 ratings
75.
Mumu
Mumu 3.78 avg rating — 10,827 ratings
76.
Мастер и Маргарита
Мастер и Маргарита 4.28 avg rating — 401,039 ratings
77.
Hadji Murád
Hadji Murád 3.85 avg rating — 14,762 ratings
77.
Monday Begins on Saturday
Monday Begins on Saturday 4.15 avg rating — 17,093 ratings
79.
King, Queen, Knave
King, Queen, Knave 3.82 avg rating — 6,094 ratings
80.
Laughter in the Dark
Laughter in the Dark 4.01 avg rating — 20,691 ratings
81.
Netochka Nezvanova
Netochka Nezvanova 3.85 avg rating — 7,848 ratings
82.
Two Winters and Three Summers
Two Winters and Three Summers 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
82.
Het zware zand
Het zware zand 4.47 avg rating — 610 ratings
82.
The Librarian
The Librarian 3.55 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
85.
Энциклопедия русской души: роман с энциклопедией
Энциклопедия русской души: роман с энциклопедией 3.54 avg rating — 153 ratings
85.
The Dream Life of Sukhanov
The Dream Life of Sukhanov 3.90 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
87.
Колючая изгородь = A Prickly Fence
Колючая изгородь = A Prickly Fence 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
87.
Dubrovsky
Dubrovsky 3.93 avg rating — 4,717 ratings
89.
The Shooting Party
The Shooting Party 3.91 avg rating — 2,592 ratings
90.
Generations of Winter
Generations of Winter 4.17 avg rating — 839 ratings
91.
История зеркала
История зеркала 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
91.
История одного города
История одного города 3.89 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
93.
The Yellow Arrow
The Yellow Arrow 4.11 avg rating — 3,135 ratings
94.
August 1914: A Novel
August 1914: A Novel 3.94 avg rating — 2,769 ratings
95.
Скверный анекдот
Скверный анекдот 3.76 avg rating — 5,381 ratings
96.
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 4.12 avg rating — 12,648 ratings
97.
Vita Nostra (Метаморфозы, #1)
Vita Nostra (Метаморфозы, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 21,460 ratings
98.
De stille Don, band 1: De stille Don & Storm over Rusland
De stille Don, band 1: De stille Don & Storm over Rusland 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
98.
Жизнь господина де Мольера
Жизнь господина де Мольера 3.90 avg rating — 1,783 ratings
100.
Poor Folk
Poor Folk 3.77 avg rating — 36,773 ratings
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