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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Russia (North Asia)

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  • The Half Life of Valery K
    Natasha Pulley
    Paperback: 03/19/2024
     
    From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set in a ...
  • Atomic Anna
    Rachel Barenbaum
    Paperback: 03/07/2023
     
    From the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and ...
  • The Last Grand Duchess
    The Last Grand Duchess: A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution
    Bryn Turnbull
    Paperback: 02/08/2022
     
    This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of ...
  • The Nesting Dolls
    Alina Adams
    Paperback: 07/06/2021
     
    Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page-turning, epic family saga...
  • Divide Me By Zero
    Lara Vapnyar
    Paperback: 11/17/2020
     
    As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching...
  • Disappearing Earth
    Julia Phillips
    Paperback: 04/07/2020
     
    Spellbinding, moving - evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world - this suspenseful and ...
  • A Terrible Country
    Keith Gessen
    Paperback: 07/09/2019
     
    A literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyalty—the first novel in ten years from a founding ...

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