NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #48 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
I watched the hilarious "Death of Stalin" movie recently, which had me thinking about books with Russia and Soviet politics as their backdrop. If you're not quite ready to dive into Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's life's work, here are some breezier reads:
1) David Benioff's CITY OF THIEVES is a movingly human tale of life amid the horror of the siege of Leningrad: bookshop.org/books/city-of-…
2) I've recommended her novel THE LINE before, but Olga Grushin's (@olgagrushin) THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV, her debut, is a fascinating portrait of the imagined inner-life of one of the many who made moral trade-offs amid the Soviet Union: bookshop.org/books/the-drea…
3) Amor Towles' (@amortowles) A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, about a man "exiled" to live indefinitely in a fancy Moscow hotel is warm, charming, and yet also an unforgettable window into a disturbing time: bookshop.org/books/a-gentle…
4) Martin Cruz Smith's GORKY PARK is one of the great, classic thriller/mysteries of all time, mixed with a dose of Cold War geopolitics: bookshop.org/books/gorky-pa…
5) Tom Rob Smith's THE SECRET SPEECH imagines the drama of coming to terms with Stalin's reign of terror: bookshop.org/books/the-secr…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are you reading this weekend? Share! #avidreadersunite
PS: I don’t usually do this, but I should add one more to this list:
6) THE STALIN EPIGRAM, by Robert Littell, about the infamous dictator and one of the few artists who wouldn’t bend to his desires, based on a true story: bookshop.org/books/the-stal…
6) THE STALIN EPIGRAM, by Robert Littell, about the infamous dictator and one of the few artists who wouldn’t bend to his desires, based on a true story: bookshop.org/books/the-stal…
