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by Katherine Arden
Published Jan 2025
Read ReviewsDuring the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.
by Paulina Bren
Published Mar 2022
Read ReviewsFrom award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the first history of New York's most famous residential hotel - The Barbizon - and the remarkable women who lived there.
by Bryn Turnbull
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsThis sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov, the first daughter of the last tsar.
The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures
by Jennifer Hofmann
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsAn audacious debut that combines spycraft, betrayals, and reversals to show that sometimes it's the secret that destroys you.
by Keith Gessen
Published Jul 2019
Read ReviewsA literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyaltythe first novel in ten years from a founding editor of n+1 and author of All the Sad Young Literary Men
by Helen Rappaport
Published Apr 2018
Read ReviewsFrom the bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
by Julian Barnes
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsA compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prizewinning The Sense of an Ending
by Bradley Somer
Published Nov 2016
Read ReviewsAt turns funny and heartbreaking, a goldfish names Ian escapes from his bowl and, plummeting toward the street below, witnesses the lives of the Seville on Roxy residents.
by Robert Littell
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsThe Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century - and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin.
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Published Nov 2009
Read ReviewsIn the bestselling tradition of Doctor Zhivago and Sophie's Choice, a sweeping epic of Russia from the last days of the Tsars to today's age of oligarchs -- by the prizewinning author of Young Stalin.
by Owen Matthews
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsAn indelible portrait of Russia over seven decades and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it.
by Muriel Barbery
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsA moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.
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