Thread by @DrAlakbarov

Thread. 100 books to read from former Soviet Union countries:

🇧🇾 Voices from Chernobyl (1997) by Svetlana Alexievich
🇷🇺 The Light and the Dark (2013) by Mikhail Shishkin
🇷🇺 Zuleikha (2015) by Guzel Yakhina
🇦🇿 Days in the Caucasus (1945) by Banine

🇰🇿 The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin (2006) by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
🇷🇺 Metro 2033 (2005) by Dmitry Glukhovsky
🇷🇺 Generation "P" (1999) by Victor Pelevin
🇷🇺 The Suitcase (1986) by Sergei Dovlatov
🇰🇬 Jamila (1958) by Chinghiz Aitmatov

🇱🇻 Soviet Milk (2015) by Nora Ikstena
🇱🇻 Five Fingers (2013) by Māra Zālīte
🇬🇪 A Man Was Going Down the Road (1973) by Otar Chiladze
🇺🇦 Voroshilovgrad (2010) by Serhiy Zhadan
🇱🇹 Vilnius Poker (1989) by Ričardas Gavelis
🇺🇿 Samarkand (1994) by Amin Maalouf

🇺🇿 Samarkand: Recipes and Stories From Central Asia and the Caucasus (2016) by Caroline Eden
🇷🇺 We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
🇦🇿 Ali and Nino (1937) by Kurban Said
🇷🇺 Putin's Russia (2003) by Anna Politkovskaya

🇷🇺 Sex in Big Politics. Self-instruction Self-made Woman (2006) by Irina Khakamada
🇷🇺 The Turkish Gambit (1998) by Boris Akunin
🇷🇺 One Soldier’s War in Chechnya (2007) by Arkady Babchenko
🇷🇺 The Gulag Archipelago (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

🇷🇺 A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya (2001) by Anna Politkovskaya
🇷🇺 A Hero of Our Time (1840) by Mikhail Lermontov
🇷🇺 Hadji Murat (1912) by Leo Tolstoy
🇦🇲 My Name Is Aram (1937) by William Saroyan
🇷🇺 The Gambler (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

🇺🇿 A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (2010) by Christopher Aslan Alexander
🇰🇿 Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared (2007) by Christopher Robbins
🇹🇲 The Tale of Aypi (2016) by Ak Welsapar
🇱🇻 The Latvian Saga (1959) by Uldis Ģērmanis

🇪🇪 The Czar's Madman (1978) by Jaan Kross
🇱🇻 The Dogs of Riga (1992) by Henning Mankell
🇱🇹 Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again (2013) by Giedra Radvilavičiūtė
🇺🇦 Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (2012) by Amelia Glaser

🇺🇦 The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015) by Serhii Plokhy
🇺🇦 Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (2017) by Anne Applebaum
🇲🇩 The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture (1999) by Charles King

🇺🇦 The House with the Stained-Glass Window (2015) by Zanna Sloniowska
🇺🇦 In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine (2015) by Tim Judah
🇲🇩 Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (2018) by Steven Zipperstein
🇺🇦 The Harvest of Sorrow (1986) by Robert Conquest

🇬🇪 Nart Sagas of the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs (2002) by John Colarusso
🇬🇪 Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus (2006) by Thomas Goltz

🇬🇪 Please Don’t Call It Soviet Georgia (1991) by Mary Russell
🇬🇪 Bread And Ashes: A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia (1998) by Tony Anderson
🇬🇪 Stories I stole from Georgia (2002) by Wendell Steavenson
🇦🇿 Liquid Land (2012) by Rena Effendi

🇦🇿 Offside: Football in Exile (2012) by Arthur Huizinga
🇷🇺 Ice Fishers (2018) by Aleksey Kondratyev
🇦🇿🇰🇿🇹🇲🇬🇪🇰🇬 Caspian: The Elements (2018) by Chloe Dewe Mathews
🇷🇺 #draft (2018) by Dmitry Markov
🇺🇦 The Moscoviad (1993) by Yuri Andrukhovych

🇪🇪 The Autumn Ball (1979) by Mati Unt
🇷🇺 The Secret History of Moscow (2007) by Ekaterina Sedia
🇪🇪 Border State (1993) by Tõnu Õnnepalu
🇱🇹 Hour of the Wolf (2013) by Andrius Tapinas
🇷🇺 Day Of The Oprichnik (2006) by Vladimir Sorokin

🇹🇲 Rukhnama (2001) by Saparmurat Niyazov
🇷🇺 First Person (2000) by Vladimir Putin
🇹🇲 Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World's Most Isolated Country (2006) by John W. Kropf
🇹🇯 Beyond the Oxus: The Central Asians (2002) by Monica Whitlock
🇹🇯 Hurramabad (2001) by Andrei Volos

🇰🇬 Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia (2013) by Philip Shishkin
🇺🇿 The Railway (1997) by Hamid Ismailov
🇰🇿 Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (2018) by Joanna Lillis

🇰🇿 Once in Kazakhstan: The Snow Leopard Emerges (2005) by Keith Rosten
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan Diary by Thomas Goltz
🇦🇿 Layla and Majnun (1188) by Nizami Ganjavi
🇦🇿 Blue Angels (1988) by Chingiz Abdullayev
🇦🇿 Hophopname (1912) by Mirza Alakbar Sabir

🇦🇿 Sword and Pen (1948) by Mammed Said Ordubadi
🇦🇿 Sheikh Sanan (1912) by Huseyn Javid
🇦🇿 The Fifth Floor of a Four-storey Building (1984) by Anar
🇦🇿 Old Tar Player (1922) by Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev
🇦🇿 Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin (1837) by Mirza Fatali Akhundov

🇺🇦 The City (1928) by Valerian Pidmohylny
🇷🇺 The Master and Margarita (1966) by Mikhail Bulgakov
🇷🇺 Eugene Onegin (1833) by Alexander Pushkin
🇷🇺 Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
🇷🇺 Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev

🇧🇾 Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (2011) by Andrew Wilson
🇷🇺 The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
🇷🇺 History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
🇷🇺 In Memory of Memory (2017) by Maria Stepanova
🇷🇺 The Mother (1906) by Maxim Gorky

🇷🇺 The Destiny of Man (1931) by Nikolai Berdyaev
🇷🇺 Gooseberries (1898) by Anton Chekhov
🇷🇺 Petersburg (1913) by Andrei Bely
🇬🇪 The Eighth Life (2014) by Nino Haratischvili
🇺🇿 The Devils' Dance (2018) by Hamid Ismailov
🇷🇺 War and Peace (1867) by Leo Tolstoy

Small correction:

The Sixth Floor of a Five-storey Building (1984) by Anar

🇷🇺 The Twelve Chairs (1928) by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
🇷🇺 Godfather of the Kremlin: the Life and Times of Boris Berezovsky (2000) by Paul Klebnikov
🇰🇬 The White Ship (1970) by Chinghiz Aitmatov
🇰🇿 Code of the World (2016) by Olzhas Suleimenov

🇺🇦 Mesopotamia (2014) by Serhiy Zhadan
🇧🇾 Zinky Boys (1989) by Svetlana Alexievich
🇲🇩 Playing the Moldovans at Tennis (2000) by Tony Hawks