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Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Report Abuse
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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky Report Abuse
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The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Report Abuse
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Dostoevsky's masterpiece is recognized as one of the best works in literature ever. You owe it to yourself to check it out.
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Report Abuse
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A novel for the financially insolvent (or maybe not,) this Dostoevsky work was originally published in serial form.
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Report Abuse
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Bulgakov's work is one of the best novels of the 20th century, detailing a visit by the Devil to the Soviet Union.
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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Report Abuse
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Report Abuse
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War and Peace is one of those novels you can brag about having read. It is one of the greatest works in literature, and also one of the most famously long.
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Report Abuse
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev Report Abuse
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Dealing with inter-generational strife, Fathers and Sons is Turgenev's best-known work. It's a quick and brilliant read.
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Report Abuse
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The Real Life if Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov Report Abuse
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The Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol Report Abuse
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Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol Report Abuse
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Report Abuse
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Generations of Winter by Vassily Aksyonov Report Abuse
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The Same Old Story by Ivan Goncharov Report Abuse
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Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov Report Abuse
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Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov Report Abuse
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Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov Report Abuse
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A Russian Gentleman by Serghei Aksakoff Report Abuse
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