The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Moscow

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
111 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1957 Russian Russian
365 Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin 1833 Russian Russian
744 Moscow to the End of the Line Venedikt Yerofeev 1970 Russian Russian
763 The Case of Comrade Tulayev Victor Serge 1949 French French
1094 Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith 1981 American English
1481 The Little Golden Calf Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrov 1931 Russian Russian
1749 First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 Russian Russian
2113 House On The Embankment Yuri Trifonov 1976 Russian Russian
2230 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
2282 Boris Godunov Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
2751 Decisive Moments in History Stefan Zweig 1927 Austrian German
2788 A Cultural History Of The Modern Age Egon Friedell 1927 Austrian English
2998 A Cloud In Trousers Vladimir Mayakovsky 1915 Russian Russian
3131 The Man Who Loved Dogs Leonardo Padura 2009 Cuban Spanish
3192 The Aesthetics Of Resistance Peter Weiss 1975 German German
3201 The Pillar And Ground Of The Truth Pavel Florensky 1914 Russian Russian
3390 Napoleon Emil Ludwig 1926 German German
3604 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3637 The Memoirs Of Princess Dashkova Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova 1840 Russian Russian
3637 The Thaw Ilya Ehrenburg 1954 Russian Russian
3637 The Raging Reporter Egon Erwin Kisch 1924 Czech German
3637 Child Of The Revolution Wolfgang Leonhard 1955 German German
3637 Der Moderne Kapitalismus Werner Sombart 1902 German German
3821 Lenin's Tomb David Remnick 1993 American English
3833 Повесть о жизни Konstantin Paustovsky 1956 Russian Russian
3882 Woe From Wit Alexander Griboyedov 1825 Russian Russian
4215 The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald 1988 British English
4275 Journey From St. Petersburg To Moscow Alexander Radishchev 1790 Russian Russian
4393 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4688 In Search Of The Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky 1947 Russian English
4814 Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov 1991 Russian Russian
4893 The Short Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1886 Russian Russian
4900 Winter In Moscow Malcolm Muggeridge 1934 British English
5388 In Memory Of Memory Maria Stepanova 2017 Russian Russian
5448 The Moscoviad Yuri Andrukhovych 1993 Ukrainian Ukrainian
5459 Forgotten Ally Rana Mitter 2013 British English
5466 Child 44 Tom Rob Smith 2008 Russian English
5471 Meetings With Remarkable Men George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1963 Unknown Russian
5524 Mao's China And After Maurice Meisner 1977 American English
5939 Der Bedrohte Friede Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 1982 German German
5995 The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf Victor Pelevin 2004 Russian Russian
6005 Chekhov's Selected Stories Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
6005 Master And Man Leo Tolstoy 1895 Russian Russian
6005 My Feminine Brother Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
6005 Poem Of The End Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
6144 The Time Ludmila Petrushevskaya 1992 Russian Russian
6382 History Of Germany In The Nineteenth Century Heinrich von Treitschke 1879 German German
6382 Literature And Revolution Leon Trotsky 1924 Russian Russian
6548 Children Of The Arbat Anatoli Rybakov 1988 Russian Russian
6593 The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis 1983 American English
6611 The Russian Revolution Richard Pipes 1990 American English
6748 Hoffman's Hunger Leon de Winter 1990 Dutch Dutch
6809 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2012 French French
6892 The Company Robert Littell 2002 American English
7000 The Gray Man Mark Greaney 2009 American English
7110 Journey Into The Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg 1967 Russian Russian
7169 Two Captains Veniamin Kaverin 1940 Russian Russian
7169 Julio Jurenito Ilya Ehrenburg 1921 Russian Russian
7169 The Life Of Klim Samgin Maxim Gorky 1930 Russian Russian
7216 Short Novels Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 Russian Russian
7924 Shatuny Yuri Mamleev 1966 Russian Russian
7964 Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible Peter Pomerantsev 2014 British English
8094 Nixon And Mao Margaret MacMillan 2005 Canadian English
8211 China Shakes The World James Kynge 2006 British English
8418 War and Remembrance Herman Wouk 1978 American English
8467 The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010 American English
8683 Adapt Tim Harford 2011 British English
8698 It's Me, Eddie Eduard Limonov 1978 Russian Russian
8894 Midnight In Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
9138 The Dream Life Of Sukhanov Olga Grushin 2005 Russian English
9370 Maybe Esther Katja Petrowskaja 2014 Ukrainian German
9592 Blue Lard Vladimir Sorokin 1999 Russian Russian
9601 Москва 2042 Vladimir Voinovich 1987 Russian Russian
9861 A Week Like Any Other Natalya Baranskaya 1969 Russian Russian
9890 Novel With Cocaine M. Ageyev 1934 Russian Russian
10106 My Life As A Russian Novel Emmanuel Carrère 2007 French French
10221 Her Majesty's Secret Service Christopher Andrew 1985 Unknown English
10241 Putin's World Angela Stent 2019 American English
10309 An Actor Prepares Konstantin Stanislavski 1936 Russian Russian
10309 The Russian Revolution N. N. Sukhanov 1922 Russian Russian
10454 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10502 The Second Oldest Profession Phillip Knightley 1986 British English
10844 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
10928 Fear No Evil Natan Sharansky 1988 Israeli English
10976 Jacob’s Ladder Ludmila Ulitskaya 2015 Russian Russian
10979 Stalin's Meteorologist Olivier Rolin 2014 French French
11068 The Thatcher Decade Peter Riddell 1989 British English
11168 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11366 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11439 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11663 Apollo’s Angels Jennifer Homans 2010 American English
11847 The House Of Government Yuri Slezkine 2017 American English
11853 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12141 Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts 2009 British English
12756 Maidenhair Mikhail Shishkin 2005 Russian Russian
13296 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
13362 The Naked Year Boris Pilnyak 1922 Russian Russian
13533 A Life In Letters Anton Chekhov 1973 Russian Russian
13533 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13586 Octobriana And The Russian Underground Peter Sadecky 1971 Unknown English
13736 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13818 Tolstoy Pietro Citati 1986 Italian Italian
14176 The Spy And The Traitor Ben Macintyre 2018 British English
14232 Pattern Recognition William Gibson 2003 American English
14232 Memoirs Of A Polar Bear Yoko Tawada 2011 German German
14518 Brev Från Nollpunkten Peter Englund 1996 Swedish Swedish
14520 The Coast Of Utopia Tom Stoppard 2002 British English
14650 Night Watch Sergei Lukyanenko 1998 Russian Russian
14828 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
14986 The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
14986 Metro 2033 Dmitri Glukhovsky 2005 Russian Russian
14986 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14986 Anthony Blunt: His Lives Miranda Carter 2001 British English
15753 Selected Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
15847 Bodyguard Of Lies Anthony Cave Brown 1975 British English
15856 Anna Karanina Leo Tolstoy 1873 Russian Russian