The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Ukraine

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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
535 Red Cavalry Isaac Babel 1926 Russian Russian
1027 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
1138 The Unwomanly Face Of War Svetlana Alexievich 1985 Russian Russian
1143 Tevye The Dairyman And The Railroad Stories Sholem Aleichem 1894 Jewish Yiddish
1162 The Twelve Chairs Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrov 1928 Russian Russian
1246 Danube Claudio Magris 1986 Italian Italian
1287 Odessa Stories Isaac Babel 1923 Ukrainian Russian
1315 Voices from Chernobyl Svetlana Alexievich 1997 Belarusian Russian
1696 Evenings On A Farm Near Dikanka Nikolai Gogol 1831 Russian Russian
1764 Tales Of The Hasidim Martin Buber 1949 German German
1927 Stories of Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol 1831 Russian Russian
2203 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
2290 The White Guard Mikhail Bulgakov 1925 Russian Russian
2887 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 2002 American English
2991 The Tale Of Igor's Campaign Unknown 1187 Russian Old east slavic
3144 Poems Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
3233 The Books Of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk 2014 Polish Polish
3605 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3638 On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs Olha Kobylianska 1909 Ukrainian Ukrainian
3638 The Invisible Flag Peter Bamm 1952 German German
3833 Повесть о жизни Konstantin Paustovsky 1956 Russian Russian
4070 The Great Terror Robert Conquest 1968 British English
4081 The White Hotel D. M. Thomas 1981 British English
4135 The Cathedral Oles Honchar 1968 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4136 Fieldwork In Ukrainian Sex Oksana Zabuzhko 1996 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4267 The Old World Landowners Nikolai Gogol 1835 Ukrainian Russian
5110 Dancing In Odessa Ilya Kaminsky 2004 Ukrainian English
5262 Death And The Penguin Andrey Kurkov 1996 Ukrainian Russian
5493 The Lost Daniel Mendelsohn 2006 American English
5595 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
5599 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
5668 Medea And Her Children Lyudmila Ulitskaya 1996 Russian Russian
6219 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
6363 Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge 1998 British English
6382 Literature And Revolution Leon Trotsky 1924 Russian Russian
7086 Klotsvog Margarita Khemlin 2009 Russian Russian
7206 Voroshilovgrad Serhiy Zhadan 2010 Ukrainian Ukrainian
7216 The Nightingale Sholem Aleichem 1917 Yiddish Yiddish
8101 The Gates Of Europe Serhii Plokhy 2015 Ukrainian English
8144 Carbide Andriy Lyubka 2014 Ukrainian Ukrainian
8892 Midnight In Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
9098 Life Went On Anyway Oleg Sentsov 2019 Ukrainian Russian
9369 Maybe Esther Katja Petrowskaja 2014 Ukrainian German
9606 The Orphanage Serhiy Zhadan 2017 Ukrainian Ukrainian
10526 Endling Maria Reva 2025 Canadian English
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11901 Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman 1988 Polish English
12050 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12326 The Truth About Chernobyl Grigory Medvedev 1991 Russian Russian
12485 Looking At Women Looking At War Victoria Amelina 2025 Ukrainian English
12902 The Sunflower Boys Sam Wachman 2025 Unknown English
12922 Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns Artem Chapeye 2025 Ukrainian English
13101 By The Second Spring Danielle Leavitt 2025 Unknown English
13296 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
13533 A Life In Letters Anton Chekhov 1973 Russian Russian
13579 Grey Bees Andrey Kurkov 2018 Ukrainian Ukrainian
14828 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
14985 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
14985 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14985 Salt Mark Kurlansky 2002 American English
15916 How The Steel Was Tempered Nikolai Ostrovsky 1932 Russian Russian
16530 The Odessa File Frederick Forsyth 1972 British English
16640 The Collected Tales Nikolai Gogol 1836 Russian Russian
17163 My Life Golda Meir 1975 Israeli English
17163 Chernobyl Serhii Plokhy 2018 Ukrainian English
17163 Pushkin T. J. Binyon 2002 British English
17163 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17163 The Showman Simon Shuster 2024 Unknown English
17163 Domestic Service In The Soviet Union Alissa Klots 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Ukraine Artem Chapeye 2024 Ukrainian Ukrainian
17163 Between Two Fires Joshua Yaffa 2020 Unknown English
17163 The Invention Of Russia Aleksandr Ostrovsky 2016 Unknown English
17163 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17163 Alien Son Judah Waten 1952 Australian English
17163 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Jack Weatherford 2004 American English
17163 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Russian Russian
17163 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
17163 The Romanovs Simon Sebag Montefiore 2016 British English
17163 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Unknown Russian
17163 The Boy From Kyiv Marina Harss 2023 Unknown Unknown
17163 War And Punishment Mikhail Zygar 2023 Unknown Russian
17163 The Scythian Empire Christopher I. Beckwith 2023 Unknown English
17163 Enchantment Orson Scott Card 1999 American English
17163 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17163 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17163 Borderland Anna Reid 1997 British English
17163 Mesopotamia Serhiy Zhadan 2014 Ukrainian Ukrainian
17163 Complete Critical Prose And Letters Osip Mandelstam 1997 Russian Russian
17163 Icons And Saints Of The Eastern Orthodox Church Alfredo Tradigo 2006 Unknown Italian
16997 Ibn Fadlān And The Land Of Darkness Ahmad ibn Fadlān 921 Unknown Arabic
17163 Russka Edward Rutherfurd 1991 British English
17163 Poland Adam Zamoyski 2009 British English