8 must-read russia books like Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev

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Not Russian

By: Mikhail Shevelev

3.81

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Dramatický děj knihy se odehrává v současném Rusku, kdy skupina teroristů obsadí nedaleko Moskvy ko…

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Cover of A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert (Penguin Classics) by Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell

1. A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert (Penguin Classics)

By: Gertrude Bell , Georgina Howell

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary  L… read more

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Cover of Mātes piens by Nora Ikstena

2. Mātes piens

By: Nora Ikstena

4.28

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

Noras Ikstenas romāns “Mātes piens” aptver laika posmu no Otrā pasaules kara beigām un vēsta par tr… read more

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"„Taip jau yra – ne visi gimsta, bet visi miršta."

-Nora Ikstena, Mātes piens

"Viņš apēda savu bērnu un pēc tam nomira ilgās pēc brīvības, es atbildēju. Drosmīgs kāmis, teica māte."

-Nora Ikstena, Mātes piens

"Mi madre era una presencia a la que estábamos siempre sujetos, dependientes de ella, a la que había que adaptarse. Vivíamos sometidos al capricho de sus ángeles y demonios."

-Nora Ikstena, Mātes piens

"Es ienīdu Bembiju. Es vēlējos, lai viņš būtu miris. Kā viņam trūka būrī? Ēdiens, silta miga, sieva un bērni. Viņš to visu nopostīja tikai tādēļ, lai tiktu izskrieties pa istabu? Lai nokļūtu kanalizāc…"

-Nora Ikstena, Mātes piens

Cover of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

3. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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Cover of Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko, Thomas Campbell

4. Other Russias

By: Victoria Lomasko , Thomas Campbell

3.68

Format: 593 pages, Paperback

From a renowned graphic artist and activist, an incredible portrait of life in Russia today 'Victor… read more

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5. The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

By: Tim Mohr , Alina Bronsky

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rosa Achmetowna is the outrageously nasty and wily narrator of this rollicking family saga from the… read more

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6. Blind Goddess (Hanne Wilhelmsen, #1)

By: Tom Geddes , Anne Holt

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

The first book in Edgar-nominated Anne Holt's international bestselling mystery series featuring de… read more

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7. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel , Alfred Birnbaum

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition . In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only… read more

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8. The End of Days

By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the… read more

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9. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

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"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

Cover of We Know You Remember (High Coast, #1) by Tove Alsterdal

10. We Know You Remember (High Coast, #1)

By: Tove Alsterdal

3.66

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A missing girl, a hidden body, a decades-long cover-up, and old sins cast in new light: the classic… read more

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Cover of Portrait of an Unknown Lady by María Gainza

11. Portrait of an Unknown Lady

By: María Gainza

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with her debut Optic Nerve, returns… read more

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"Memory edits things, colours them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever's needed to make the story work."

-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

"Pero la realidad es más extraña que la ficción y más difusa también, y ahora que lo pienso no existe droga que pueda inducir una fantasía igual en tantos individuos diferentes. Todas las ramas de la …"

-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

"No esperen nombres, estadísticas, fechas. Lo sólido se me escapa, solo queda entre mis dedos una atmósfera imprecisa, técnicamente soy una impresionista de la vieja escuela. Además, todos estos años …"

-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

"Poseía «el ojo de halcón» que en el mundo del arte, como «el ojo clínico» en medicina, es un talento en extinción. Ella podía ver a través de una pintura, podía entender su matriz. Tenía un don innat…"

-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

Cover of Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au

12. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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13. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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Cover of Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov

14. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

Cover of Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal

15. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) by Andrey Kurkov

16. The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1)

By: Andrey Kurkov

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov, a perplexing mystery from a world-renowned literary master that i… read more

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Cover of A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak #1) by Dana Stabenow

17. A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak #1)

By: Dana Stabenow

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The Edgar Award-winning introduction to private investigator Kate Shugak, A Cold Day for Murder is … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Termush by Sven Holm

18. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

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"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

Cover of You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

19. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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Cover of The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda

20. The Aosawa Murders

By: Riku Onda

3.60

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

The novel starts in the 1960s when 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a party given by the owner… read more

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"Green that verges on darkness."

-Riku Onda, The Aosawa Murders

"Every person spoke in the sincere belief that what they said was the absolute truth, but if one thinks about it, it's difficult to describe an actual event in words exactly as one sees it. More like …"

-Riku Onda, The Aosawa Murders

Cover of Better the Blood by Michael  Bennett

21. Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

4.01

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Slowworm's Song by Andrew  Miller

22. The Slowworm's Song

By: Andrew Miller

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An innocent-looking letter drops on to the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexplod… read more

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Cover of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández

23. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

By: Daisy Hernández

3.99

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be… read more

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Cover of The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel by Denise Mina

24. The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel

By: Denise Mina

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress in L.A. —and up against a rival PI—in this smar… read more

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Cover of Barbara Isn't Dying Yet by Alina Bronsky

25. Barbara Isn't Dying Yet

By: Alina Bronsky

3.74

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, “comfortable” confines of traditional ge… read more

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Cover of Punishment of a Hunter (A Leningrad Confidential #1) by Yulia Yakovleva

26. Punishment of a Hunter (A Leningrad Confidential #1)

By: Yulia Yakovleva

3.58

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

1930s Leningrad. As a mood of fear cloaks the city, Investigator Vasily Zaitsev is called on to inv… read more

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Cover of Nives by Sacha Naspini

27. Nives

By: Sacha Naspini

3.76

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Dopo la morte del marito, per Nives è un problema adattarsi alla solitudine e al silenzio di Poggio… read more

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"(anger is important fuel for ending an ill-fated love affair)"

-Sacha Naspini, Nives

"Edoardo Giambattista Freschi-Valeri" "You need a day's vacation just to say his name,"

-Sacha Naspini, Nives

Cover of Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev

28. Not Russian

By: Mikhail Shevelev

3.81

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Dramatický děj knihy se odehrává v současném Rusku, kdy skupina teroristů obsadí nedaleko Moskvy ko… read more

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Cover of Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko

29. Red Crosses

By: Sasha Filipenko

4.14

Format: 208 pages, ebook

Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin's terror to the present day, in a nov… read more

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Cover of Spring in Siberia by Artem Mozgovoy

30. Spring in Siberia

By: Artem Mozgovoy

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

1985. Russia. As the Soviet Union disintegrates and Western capitalism spreads its grip across thei… read more

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22 must-read fiction books like Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev

Transform Your Habits

Mātes piens

Nora Ikstena

4.28

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Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

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Shutter

Ramona Emerson

3.80

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We Know You Remember (High Coast, #1)

Tove Alsterdal

3.66

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The Wolf Hunt

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

4.05

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Windstärke 17

Caroline Wahl

4.49

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‎22 Bahnen

Caroline Wahl

4.36

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Die Wut, die bleibt

Mareike Fallwickl

4.30

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