Books set all or part in Russia
Russia (North Asia)
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City of Night Birds: A Novel
by Juhea Kim
Hardcover: Nov 2024
A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.
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White Nights
by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Hardcover: Jan 1848
Paperback: Nov 2024
A young, lonely man strolls the streets of St. Petersburg contemplating his solitude when he happens upon a young woman in tears.
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The Half Life of Valery K
by Natasha Pulley
Hardcover: Jul 2022
Paperback: Mar 2024
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia.
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The Story of Russia
by Orlando Figes
Hardcover: Sep 2022
Paperback: Sep 2023
From "the great storyteller of Russian history" (Financial Times), a brilliant account of the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped Russia's past and politics - essential reading for understanding the country today.
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Atomic Anna
by Rachel Barenbaum
Hardcover: Apr 2022
Paperback: Mar 2023
From the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past.
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
by Colin Thubron
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Sep 2022
The most admired travel writer of our time - author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet - recounts an eye-opening, often perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly ...
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The Last Grand Duchess: A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution
by Bryn Turnbull
Paperback: Feb 2022
This 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.
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The Nesting Dolls
by Alina Adams
Hardcover: Jul 2020
Paperback: Jul 2021
Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page-turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family - each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for ...
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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
by Joshua Yaffa
Hardcover: Jan 2020
Paperback: May 2021
From a leading journalist in Moscow and correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule.
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Divide Me By Zero
by Lara Vapnyar
Hardcover: Oct 2019
Paperback: Nov 2020
As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested.
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Disappearing Earth
by Julia Phillips
Hardcover: May 2019
Paperback: Apr 2020
Spellbinding, moving - evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world - this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer.
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by Ben Macintyre
Hardcover: Sep 2018
Paperback: Aug 2019
The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.
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