Re: A lifetime of must reads
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Also I'm really interested in Russian literature besides the classics Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn.
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Hero of Our Time (Lermontov)
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Short Stories (Gogol)
Eugene Onegin (Pushkin)
Short Stories (Chekhov)
The Master and the Margarita (Bulgakov)
Spend a little time on Amazon researching the best translations.
Nabokov is great, too. He is Russian, but he wrote his best novels (Pale Fire, Lolita) in English.
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Good list. I'd also add the following:
Any of Ivan Bunin's short stories
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
White Guard, also by Bulgakov.
On a non-Russian note, I'd suggest Tennessee William's entire canon as required reading.
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