The Putinist Years
1. 
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by:
Bill Browder
4.44 avg rating — 104,275 ratings 
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by:
Masha Gessen
3.82 avg rating — 11,842 ratings 4. 
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
by:
Garry Kasparov
4.04 avg rating — 3,437 ratings 
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia 3.97 avg rating — 11,442 ratings
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A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
by:
Luke Harding
4.25 avg rating — 2,219 ratings 9. 
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by:
Michael Isikoff
4.20 avg rating — 6,660 ratings 
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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
by:
Steven Lee Myers
4.07 avg rating — 5,471 ratings 13. 
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.19 avg rating — 6,913 ratings 14. 
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin
by:
Ben Judah
4.09 avg rating — 455 ratings 15. 
The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
by:
Edward Lucas
3.80 avg rating — 617 ratings 16. 
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
by:
Arkady Ostrovsky
4.02 avg rating — 1,863 ratings 17. 
A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption & Death in Putin's Russia 4.19 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
by:
Alex Goldfarb
3.97 avg rating — 541 ratings 19. 
McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld
by:
Misha Glenny
3.91 avg rating — 4,867 ratings 20. 
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
by:
Malcolm W. Nance
4.08 avg rating — 1,862 ratings 
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Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Geopolitics in the 21st Century)
by:
Fiona Hill
4.24 avg rating — 1,076 ratings 23. 
From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
by:
Michael McFaul
4.04 avg rating — 1,879 ratings 
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The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
by:
Shaun Walker
4.18 avg rating — 1,028 ratings 
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.15 avg rating — 247 ratings 30. 
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate 4.27 avg rating — 983 ratings
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Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
by:
Angela Stent
4.18 avg rating — 841 ratings 
33. 
The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation
by:
Oliver Bullough
3.84 avg rating — 513 ratings 
34. 
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
by:
Luke Harding
3.84 avg rating — 4,694 ratings 36. 
Elections without Order: Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin
by:
Richard Rose
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union
by:
Mark Mackinnon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50 ratings 40. 
The Age of Assassins: How Scary Are Russia's New Rulers?
by:
Yuri Felshtinsky
3.63 avg rating — 46 ratings 
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Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
by:
Luke Harding
4.16 avg rating — 3,531 ratings 46. 
Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
by:
Serhii Plokhy
4.07 avg rating — 843 ratings 48. 
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
by:
Joshua Yaffa
4.14 avg rating — 955 ratings 49. 
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
by:
Bill Browder
4.34 avg rating — 25,959 ratings 50. 
Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus
by:
Gerard Toal
3.87 avg rating — 101 ratings 51. 
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies
by:
Gordon Corera
4.26 avg rating — 2,527 ratings 
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Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.85 avg rating — 4,807 ratings 53. 
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It 4.10 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence 4.40 avg rating — 947 ratings
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До другої річниці агресії Росії проти України (20 лютого 2016 року) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
by:
Mikhail Zygar
4.29 avg rating — 6,245 ratings 56. 
Should the West Engage Putin’s Russia?: The Munk Debates (The Munk Debates, 2015)
by:
Stephen F. Cohen
3.63 avg rating — 65 ratings 56. 
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
by:
Catherine Belton
4.17 avg rating — 9,023 ratings 
60. 
The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics: Ukraine and the Challenge to the European Order
by:
Taras Kuzio
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings 62. 
The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
by:
Irina Borogan
3.69 avg rating — 369 ratings 62. 
57 Hours: A Survivor's Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama
by:
Vesselin Nedkov
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings 62. 
I'm Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin's War on Russia's Opposition
by:
Marc Bennetts
3.90 avg rating — 146 ratings 65. 
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The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair
by:
Richard Sakwa
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 67. 
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Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair
by:
Richard Sakwa
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings 69. 
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by:
Nicole Perlroth
4.32 avg rating — 10,654 ratings 
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Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror
by:
John Sweeney
4.22 avg rating — 1,996 ratings 74. 
A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West
by:
Luke Harding
4.25 avg rating — 2,219 ratings 75. 
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
by:
Arkady Ostrovsky
4.02 avg rating — 1,863 ratings 
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Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know 3.95 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)
by:
Masha Gessen
3.78 avg rating — 662 ratings 
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Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War
by:
Peter Conradi
4.26 avg rating — 497 ratings 82. 
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Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia
by:
Lisa Dickey
4.04 avg rating — 587 ratings 
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Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State 3.98 avg rating — 404 ratings
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From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
by:
Heidi Blake
4.29 avg rating — 2,645 ratings 
88. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,726 ratings 
90. 
The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020
by:
Tim Weiner
4.07 avg rating — 656 ratings 
93. 
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
by:
Catherine Belton
4.17 avg rating — 9,023 ratings 
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Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Brooking Focus Books)
by:
Fiona Hill
4.24 avg rating — 1,076 ratings