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Russia (North Asia)

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City of Night Birds

A Novel

by Juhea Kim

Hardcover: Nov 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.

White Nights

by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Hardcover: Jan 1848 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A young, lonely man strolls the streets of St. Petersburg contemplating his solitude when he happens upon a young woman in tears.

The Half Life of Valery K

by Natasha Pulley

Hardcover: Jul 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia.

The Story of Russia

by Orlando Figes

Hardcover: Sep 2022 | Paperback: Sep 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From "the great storyteller of Russian history" (Financial Times), a brilliant account of the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped Russia's past and politics - essential reading for understanding the country today.

Atomic Anna

by Rachel Barenbaum

Hardcover: Apr 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past.

The Amur River

Between Russia and China

by Colin Thubron

Hardcover: Sep 2021 | Paperback: Sep 2022

Critics' Consensus:

The most admired travel writer of our time - author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet - recounts an eye-opening, often perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly ...

The Last Grand Duchess

A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution

by Bryn Turnbull

Paperback: Feb 2022

Critics' Consensus:

This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov, the first daughter of the last tsar.

The Nesting Dolls

by Alina Adams

Hardcover: Jul 2020 | Paperback: Jul 2021

Critics' Consensus:

Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page-turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family - each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for ...

Between Two Fires

Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia

by Joshua Yaffa

Hardcover: Jan 2020 | Paperback: May 2021

Critics' Consensus:

From a leading journalist in Moscow and correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule.

Divide Me By Zero

by Lara Vapnyar

Hardcover: Oct 2019 | Paperback: Nov 2020

Critics' Consensus:

As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested.

Disappearing Earth

by Julia Phillips

Hardcover: May 2019 | Paperback: Apr 2020

Critics' Consensus:

Spellbinding, moving - evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world - this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer.

The Spy and the Traitor

The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

by Ben Macintyre

Hardcover: Sep 2018 | Paperback: Aug 2019

Critics' Consensus:

The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.

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