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
15903 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15903 None Dare Call It Treason John A. Stormer 1964 American English
15903 Childhood, Youth And Exile Alexander Herzen 1852 Russian Russian
16705 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16774 The Suicide Nikolai Erdman 1928 Russian Russian
17130 Dostoevsky William W. Rowe 1989 American Unknown
17130 A Spy Among Friends Ben Macintyre 2014 British English
17130 The Bourne Ultimatum Robert Ludlum 1990 American English
17130 Edge Of Eternity Ken Follett 2014 British English
17130 Winter Of The World Ken Follett 2012 British English
17130 Metro 2034 Dmitri Glukhovsky 2009 Russian Russian
17130 Metro 2035 Dmitri Glukhovsky 2015 Russian Russian
17130 The Wolf's Hour Robert R. McCammon 1989 American English
17130 Memoir Of A Russian Punk Eduard Limonov 1983 Russian Russian
17130 Tolstoy A. N. Wilson 1988 British English
16937 Morphine Mikhail Bulgakov 1927 Russian Russian
17130 Engineers Of Victory Paul Kennedy 2013 British English
17130 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17130 Agent Running In The Field John le Carré 2019 British English
17130 Pushkin T. J. Binyon 2002 British English
17130 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17130 The Benn Diaries, 1940 90 Tony Benn 1987 British English
17130 Atrocities Matthew White 2011 Unknown English
17130 Margaret Thatcher Charles Moore 2013 British English
17130 Harold Wilson Ben Pimlott 1992 British English
17130 Churchill Roy Jenkins 2001 British English
17130 The Endtimes Of Human Rights Stephen Hopgood 2013 British English
17130 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17130 Domestic Service In The Soviet Union Alissa Klots 2024 Unknown English
17130 Dreadnought Robert K. Massie 1991 American English
17130 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17130 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English
17130 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17130 The Winter Queen Boris Akunin 1998 Russian Russian
17130 Between Two Fires Joshua Yaffa 2020 Unknown English
17130 The Invention Of Russia Aleksandr Ostrovsky 2016 Unknown English
17130 Alexander Solzhenitsyn D. M. Thomas 1998 Unknown English
17130 The Baltic Revolution Anatol Lieven 1993 British English
17130 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17130 The 33 Strategies Of War New Edition By Robert Greene Paperback Robert Greene 2006 American English
17083 Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre Walter A. Kaufmann 1956 American English
17130 The Sports Gene David Epstein 2013 American English
17130 Our Kind Of Traitor John le Carré 2010 British English
17130 Portraits Of Power Mark Gevisser 1996 Unknown English
17130 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17130 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17130 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17130 Strongmen Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2020 American English
17130 Red Plenty Francis Spufford 2010 British English
17130 Tolstoy's "War And Peace" A Study R.F. Christian 1978 Unknown English
16909 Family Happiness And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1973 Russian Russian
17130 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17130 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17130 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Russian Russian
17130 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
17064 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17130 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17130 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
17130 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
17130 Audience Of One James Poniewozik 2019 American English
17130 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17130 The Master And Margarita: A Critical Companion Laura Weeks 1996 Unknown English
17130 The Romanovs Simon Sebag Montefiore 2016 British English
17130 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17130 The Black Circle Patrick Carman 2009 American English
17130 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17127 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17130 A Small Corner Of Hell Anna Politkovskaya 2003 Russian Russian
16870 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
17130 The Literature Express Lasha Bugadze 2009 Georgian Georgian
17130 The Fourth Man Robert Baer 2022 American English
17130 Sea Power Admiral James Stavridis 2017 American English
17130 Inside The Cia Ronald Kessler 1992 American English
17130 True Believer Jack Carr 2019 American English
17130 Code Red Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills 2023 American English
17130 Spies In The Family Eva Dillon 2017 Unknown English
17130 The Spy In Moscow Station Eric Haseltine 2019 Unknown English
17130 Blind Man's Bluff Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Drew 1998 American English
17130 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Unknown Russian
17130 The Genius Of Their Age S. Frederick Starr 2023 Unknown English
17130 War And Punishment Mikhail Zygar 2023 Unknown Russian
17130 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17130 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17130 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17130 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2023 French French
17130 Hitler, Stalin, Mum And Dad Daniel Finkelstein 2023 British English
17130 High Caucasus Tom Parfitt 2023 Unknown English
17130 The 48 Laws Of Power robert green 1998 Unknown English
17130 The Maze Of Bones Rick Riordan 2008 American English
17130 Stolen Thoughts Tim Tigner 2015 Unknown English
17130 A History Of Warfare John Keegan 1993 British English
17130 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17130 Memoirs Pablo Neruda 1974 Chilean Spanish
17130 The Women's History Of The World Rosalind Miles 1988 British English
17130 Rocket Men Robert Kurson 2018 American English
17130 Borderland Anna Reid 1997 British English
17130 The Russia House John le Carré 1989 British English
17130 The Cellist Daniel Silva 2021 American English
17130 Fox Dubravka Ugrešić 2017 Croatian Croatian
17130 Subtly Worded Teffi 2014 Russian Russian
17130 Complete Critical Prose And Letters Osip Mandelstam 1997 Russian Russian
17130 Modern Russian Poetry Vladimir Markov, Merrill Sparks 1967 Unknown English
17130 Icons And Saints Of The Eastern Orthodox Church Alfredo Tradigo 2006 Unknown Italian
17130 Russka Edward Rutherfurd 1991 British English
17130 The Method Isaac Butler 2022 American English
17130 Fdr Jean Edward Smith 2007 American English
17117 The Death Ivan Ilych And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
16848 The Heart Of A Dog Mikhail Bulgakov 1925 Russian Russian
17130 Als Zeuge Der Zeit Arthur Koestler 1983 German Unknown