Great list! The only Russian novels I have read are The Master and Margarita and Ana Karenina (plus some plays and stories by Chekhov), and I really loved them. One of my reading challenges this year is to read a book from 12 different countries (one for each month) and Russia is definitely going to be one of them, I just haven't decided which book yet. Probably something by Dostoievsky whom I haven't read anyhting by yet.
Thanks for the "Dead Souls" recommendation! I loved Taras Bulba, but haven't picked up Gogol since. My favorite Russian classic is the first I read, Dostoevsky's "The Idiot." It destroyed any notion people gave me that the Russian classics are dry. No, no, no, they are not!
They really aren't 😅 I'm glad that the Idiot proved that notion wrong. I remember I really liked Taras Bulba at school. I'm super excited to re-read it. 😊 I hope both of us will enjoy Dead Souls. 📚 Happy reading!
This year I really want to explore and dive into Russian literature! I own a couple of really popular works like Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment and Master and Margarita but I am extremely intimidated by them! So I bought some shorter works like a collection of Leo Tolstoy's short stories aswell as The Gambler and The House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky to ease me in gently, fingers crossed I can do it this year 🤞If anyone has any recommendations on where to start or easier Russian classics feel free to let me know, I'd greatly appreciate it!
I'm glad you'll be diving into Russian classics this year! Good luck! I think starting with short stories and novellas is a good way to go! Try Chekhov's short stories. He is many people's favorite and he is one of those staple Russian writers and a must-read, just like Gogol, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy. You could also try Taras Bulba by Gogol. It's a great novella about a father and his two brilliant sons. Also, it's not exactly about Russia. It's actually about Ukrainian Kazaks, so you'll be able to see a new culture shown, different ever from the traditional Russian culture. It might be interesting 😊 Pushkin has a collection called Belkin's tales. Those are romantic love stories with happy endings if you're in the mood for something romantic 🌟
@@bookishtopics Thank you so much for the recommendations I'll definitely check them out! There goes my New Years Resolution of buying less books, oh well! 😂😂
My favorite Russian classics: The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Один день Ивана Денисовича) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The classics I'd like to read this year: The Idiot (Идиот) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dead Souls (Мертвые души) by Nikolai Gogol Fathers and Sons (Отцы и Дети) by Ivan Turgenev Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго) by Boris Pasternak The Kreutzer Sonata (Крейцерова соната) by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) by Leo Tolstoy **Reading this month** and Metro 2033 (МЕТРО 2033) by Dmitry Glukhovsky [Not a classic, yet ;)] Wishing you an amazing reading year!
My favorite Russian classics are the brothers karmazov, crime and punishment, and the overcoat. Currently reading Ana Karnena. And I’m hoping to read other ones soon including fathers and sons, a hero of our time, the idiot, doctor Zivago, and oblomov
@@bookishtopics Yes, I have seen several adaptation of the book on RUclips. I don't understand Russian (Ukrainian? Cossack?) language, but I love them. But I read this is Starlin's favorite book and he read it before he went to bed. Ahhh! Terrible!
This year I plan to finish my 'banned book' collection. Two of those are Russian: Crime & Punishment and Lolita. Not sure if those are the best books to start with, but for 2022 I will have plenty of recommendations from you. 😊
I read Crime and Punishment in school and I remember really liking it. It's time to re-read it actually. It has been so long. I remember the plot in general, but I don't remember the details anymore. I hope you'll enjoy it! I want to read Lolita too. 🌞
I read The Golovlyov Family and The Village of Stepanchikovo in 2020 and I loved both of them! If you want something funny, you could try the play Ivan Vasilievich by M. Bulgakov. You've probably seen the adaption (Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future by Leonid Gaidai), but in my opinion the play is slightly better.
I've been wanting to explore Russian literature more. I'll try to join you in 2021 and attempt to read some Russian classics. I have only read a couple of Russian classics but I do have a small list of books I want to buy.
This is a great video! So many splendid recommendations! I'll have to check some of them out. Reading more Russian classics was one of my resolutions this year.
This is terrible! My TBR list keeps getting longer with your recommendations. I will not read all of Gogol, but I want to read many of the books you mention here. Thank you for this. Thank God I didn't make a new years resolution to buy fewer books.
I read Eugene Onegin by Pushkin a year ago and it blew my mind with how beautiful it was so I really hope to pick up more Pushkin in the near future. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky has been on my TBR for years at this point so fingers crossed I actually pick it up and finish it this year!
I had the misanthrope from Moliere and I have definitely put the retelling of Fyodor. I have also going to order the books from Bunon and Rasputin after listening to you. Thanks to you I read the Blind Owl and I bought the Gadfly ( will read it this month). Keep the amazing content and the long lists.:P. HAPPY New Year
Ohh Gadfly! I love that novel, I read it when I was in school. I need to re-read it myself. I remember the ending packed such a punch for me I couldn't stop thinking about it. I wonder if It'll be as impressive as it was if I re-read it. I hope so. I hope you'll enjoy the novel! Let me know what you will think of it 🌞
I'm currently buddy reading War and Peace, just one or two chapters a day. If it takes us all year then we're okay with that. It's my first foray into Russian literature and I'm really enjoying it so far!
I'm so glad you're enjoying it! Good luck! I need to re-read war and peace myself. But not this year probably. It's quite an undertaking and I decided this year to close as many gaps as I can in terms of classics from other countries. I hope you'll end up enjoying war and peace all the way through :) When I was reading it, war parts were a bit of a drag for me. But peace parts made up for all of that. So I ended up loving it still. Happy reading :)
@@bookishtopics we're still at the peace parts for now, and we're enjoying them! Fingers crossed I'll differ from you on the war parts but either way I'm looking forward to learning more about this classic!
I think my big favourite is Chechov. I also loved Anna Karenina but yeah Chechov did it for me. And thats interesting, because normally I'm not into shorter Stories. I also like Loliate very much, i love the Author playing with psychology and the reader itself. Its not that easy to read , because of the circumstances of the Storyline. But in my opinion its worth to.
Oh Doctor Zhivago I want to read it but somehow I had never read it. I remember watching an adaptation of it on Italian TV and like it. So hopefully this year I will be able to read it💖
I haven't even seen a movie adaptation but there is a song in Russian with lyrics from this book and it's so beautiful! I really hope both of us will enjoy this novel 🌞 Happy Reading!
Your Russian reading list is quite impressive. The only Russian author I have on my bookshelves is Anton Chekhov. I have “The Steppe and Other Stories”, “The Russian Master and Other Stories”, and his play “The Cherry Orchard”. It’s been years since I read the stories and there are some I haven’t read at all yet. Perhaps I shall get back to them later this year.
Ohhh good luck! You can do it! I read it ages ago for school. It was quite a challenge in war parts. Peace parts I really enjoyed. In war parts I struggled a lot. But I hope you'll enjoy! I need to read Anna Karenina. I never read it. I think I'll be suggesting it for the BBB in the future 🌟
Unfortunately I haven't read anything by Tolstaya. Modern Russian literature is something I need to read more of. From Solzhenitsyn I've only read one day of Ivan Denisovich. It's a short novella I read it long time ago back in high school. But I remember liking it (if "like" is the right word for this, it was interesting and terrifying). I myself want to read his In The First Circle it's one of his most well-known works along with the gulag archipelago and Cancer Ward. Cancer ward terrifies me, so I don't know if I'll read it. He wrote it after he went through cancer treatment about his experiences in the hospital and other patients facing the terminal illness. I'll start with the first circle and then maybe gulag.
I love Russian classics. I plan to read A Hero of OUr Time by Turgenev this year and then figure out what others I want to read. I also plan to read a book about readers of Russian books called "The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read them" by Elif Batuman published in 2010.
I am reading The Count of Montecristo and I am suppose read The Tale of Two Cities and 1984. Those are books chosen by a reading club. I will like to read: crime and Punishment, Emma and some of the one you mentioned sound interesting. We’ll see how 2021 goes.
What about your Russian classics reading list for 2022? Haven't you composed such a list? Did the Russian books on your 2021 list fall short, meet or exceed your expectations after your having read them (to the extent you have)? Perhaps you have addressed the latter question already, at least in piecemeal, but I have not come across it. Personally, I like to read the Russian original first keeping the English translation in reserve (for reference in case I don't understand something in Russian) so I often buy both for each literary work.
Good luck! I read it in high school. I remember really enjoying the Peace parts, but really struggling through War parts. Peace was very interesting and war very boring 😅 I wonder what I'd think about it now. I want to re-read it sometime in the future. I hope you'll like it! Good luck! 📚
@@bookishtopics I am just finishing it for the third time. I first read it in my teens and really struggled with it. The next time was in my 40s and enjoyed it more now nearly 70 and realising how rich it is. This is also the third translation and have noticed the odd change in phrasing and words used which I suppose is reflective of how language changes over time. I hope you enjoy it more the second time around.
Only read War & Peace and the non-fic "classic" My Musical Life/Rimsky-Korsakov. When covid is over the local uni library'll be open again and I can read more Russian stuff, maybe from the Silver Age, a literary period I know almost 0 about. Which Russian non-fic "classics (over 75 years old) have you read?
I don't read non-fic to be honest. I did read some for my university. Like Losev The Dialectics of Myth and Philosophy of Mythology Culture. He's from the Silver Age as well. I guess you could count those books as classics but in a specific category - history of phylosophy. His books are widely studied by philosophy students in Russia. Not that I remember anything from there though. 😅
I bought an English translation of Anna Karenina yesterday, Sophia Clef is doing a readalong on her channel. Last year I started War & Peace but gave up after around 100 pages...
I've never read Anna Karenina. I think I'll suggest it for the BBB in the future. My friend read it and said it was really great. I hope you'll love it! 🌟 Happy Reading! 📖
I added more books after I followed you in the end of 2020 than I usually add in 3 months 😂♥️ I really like you choices and love your energy, I would like to ask you if you have translated Russian classics favorites you could recommend, I read roadside picnic last year and I really like it, and I would like to read more, not necessarily in that genre
Thank you very much! 🌞 I'm very happy you found some interesting books on my channel! As for classics recommendation, I really love A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov. It's a splendid novel. I also love the Garnet Bracelet by Alexander Kuprin. It's not a novel, just a very short novella, but it's very touching. I always cry when I read it. I love Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. It's about relationships between generations. Gogol's Taras Bulba is a very interesting novel about the Ukranian Kozaks. If you want something more contemporary, I don't have much experience with modern Russian literature, but I myself want to read works by Ludmila Ulitskaya (kukozky's enigma, Medea and her children etc) and Eugin Vodolazkin (Laurus, Aviator etc) I hope it helps! Happy New Year and Happy reading!
@@bookishtopics Thank you so much!! I added your recommendations to my tbr except for the Garnet Bracelet because it was already in my list from a previous video of yours. Can't wait to get into these. Happy new year to you too girl 💋
Dead Souls is on my list also.I tried to read it when I was in Univ.Gogol didn't seem to translate into English as well as Tolstoy& Chekov.I also read Zhivago when I was younger and it definitely deserves a reread.However,at this time Ulyesses and Proust are at the top of the list.
I'd love to read Ulysses one day too, but I feel like I need some more reading experience under my belt. I hear it's very difficult to read. So somewhere in the future, I'll give it a try too. Proust as well 👍 I hope you'll enjoy them both!
Hi, Tatiana. New subscriber here. I just discovered your channel and you seem very pleasant and cheerful person so I had to subscribe. I wonder did you read And Quiet Flows the Don by Sholokhov? Anyway, keep up with good work.
Hurrah, you mentioned one of my favourites, Quiet Flows the Don. I mention it as much as possible on all sorts of book sites, I am surprised I haven't been banned by RUclips for being a nuisance! Stay safe.
@@ba-gg6jo Hi Bob, thanks for your kind words. Unfortunately And Quite Flows the Don is not on radar for any of these "booktubers", no matter how many suggestions we gave. And we are talking about Nobel prize winner. Shame. Have a good day and sorry for my English
Good Luck with reading all of these :) I want to read Crime and Punishment this year because I saw a review of it recently that made it sound really interesting :) have you read it and can you recommend it?
Thank you! 🌞 Yes, we read Crime and Punishment in school. Definitely, it's one of those staple texts which are a must-read! I enjoyed it. Raskolnikov's theory and his way to realizing how wrong it is, was fascinating! His moral and spiritual growth in this novel were portrayed in such a great way. He is a fascinating protagonist. He's one of those whom you don't love, but nevertheless interested in. I hope you'll enjoy the book! Happy Reading! 📚
I wish I could read Pasternak, not to mention Pushkin, in Russian. A new writer I discovered last year - Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950) four of his books have been published by New York Review of Books (translation by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov) : Unwitting Street, Autobiography of a Corpse, The Letter Killers Club, The Return of Munchausen, and Memories of the Future. The Ukrainian born son of Polish immigrants, Krzhizhanovsky wrote in a cell-like room in Arbat for two decades, largely unknown in his time. Newcomers to Dostoevsky usually begin with Crime and Punishment: I think it is better to begin with The House of the Dead, the narrative of his imprisonment, followed by Notes from the Underground, then Demons (also translated as The Possessed and The Devils) and then The Idiot. His shorter fiction works should never be missed. The Brothers Karamazov is best read quite late: Patrick White the Australian novelist said The Brothers goes as far as it is possible in addressing the human condition. Thanks for all your recommendations: I am making notes: the bookshops will reopen after this health crisis.
It is something I'm working at. 😅 I don't know a single female writer from the 19th century in Russia. All the ones I know are men. So far I've only found one article talking about women writers in the 19th century. So I need to search more. 📚
Спасибо большое! Какие хорошие рекомендации! Пожалуйста, делились любимыми русскими Booktube каналами. Мне не очень удалось найти интересных русскоговорящих влогерш и влогеров. Жажду роликов русского Booktube!
Здравствуйте :) мне очень нравится канал Дочитаю, и спать! Там очень приятная девушка Кристина. Мне очень нравятся её видео. CALVADOZE тоже очень хороший канал.Алиса Дёма мне тоже нравится и Lera Zhuk, но у них я не всё смотрю. Выборочно, если что заинтересует. Больше всех мне Кристина нравится.
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Do you have any favorite Russian classics? Or what are some of the Russian classics you want to read? 📚🌞
I think Dostoevsky or Bulgakov are my favourite Russians ♥️
I love Mother by Maxim Gorky. The characters are so real.
Such interesting books. And beautiful books too
Great list! The only Russian novels I have read are The Master and Margarita and Ana Karenina (plus some plays and stories by Chekhov), and I really loved them. One of my reading challenges this year is to read a book from 12 different countries (one for each month) and Russia is definitely going to be one of them, I just haven't decided which book yet. Probably something by Dostoievsky whom I haven't read anyhting by yet.
Thanks for the "Dead Souls" recommendation! I loved Taras Bulba, but haven't picked up Gogol since. My favorite Russian classic is the first I read, Dostoevsky's "The Idiot." It destroyed any notion people gave me that the Russian classics are dry. No, no, no, they are not!
They really aren't 😅 I'm glad that the Idiot proved that notion wrong. I remember I really liked Taras Bulba at school. I'm super excited to re-read it. 😊 I hope both of us will enjoy Dead Souls. 📚 Happy reading!
You speak so beautifully. I love the Russian Language. The sound is so calming.
Thank you 😊
Hello from Canada!🙋♀️🌸🇨🇦 Thank you for this list!
Hello and Happy New Year 🎄 I'm glad it was interesting! 🌞
This year I really want to explore and dive into Russian literature! I own a couple of really popular works like Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment and Master and Margarita but I am extremely intimidated by them! So I bought some shorter works like a collection of Leo Tolstoy's short stories aswell as The Gambler and The House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky to ease me in gently, fingers crossed I can do it this year 🤞If anyone has any recommendations on where to start or easier Russian classics feel free to let me know, I'd greatly appreciate it!
I'm glad you'll be diving into Russian classics this year! Good luck! I think starting with short stories and novellas is a good way to go! Try Chekhov's short stories. He is many people's favorite and he is one of those staple Russian writers and a must-read, just like Gogol, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy. You could also try Taras Bulba by Gogol. It's a great novella about a father and his two brilliant sons. Also, it's not exactly about Russia. It's actually about Ukrainian Kazaks, so you'll be able to see a new culture shown, different ever from the traditional Russian culture. It might be interesting 😊 Pushkin has a collection called Belkin's tales. Those are romantic love stories with happy endings if you're in the mood for something romantic 🌟
@@bookishtopics Thank you so much for the recommendations I'll definitely check them out! There goes my New Years Resolution of buying less books, oh well! 😂😂
My favorite Russian classics:
The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Один день Ивана Денисовича) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The classics I'd like to read this year:
The Idiot (Идиот) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dead Souls (Мертвые души) by Nikolai Gogol
Fathers and Sons (Отцы и Дети) by Ivan Turgenev
Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго) by Boris Pasternak
The Kreutzer Sonata (Крейцерова соната) by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) by Leo Tolstoy **Reading this month** and
Metro 2033 (МЕТРО 2033) by Dmitry Glukhovsky [Not a classic, yet ;)]
Wishing you an amazing reading year!
My favorite Russian classics are the brothers karmazov, crime and punishment, and the overcoat.
Currently reading Ana Karnena.
And I’m hoping to read other ones soon including fathers and sons, a hero of our time, the idiot, doctor Zivago, and oblomov
I absolutely love all of your recommendations! Thank you for this video!
I'm glad it was useful and interesting!
you have such a sweet personality!
I like the idea of reading the complete collection of works of one writer. I might do that too this year. Have to decide on an author though
Let me know what author you'll decide to read 🌞 I hope it'll be fun!
My favorite is And Quiet Flows the Don. :)
I am yet to read it. I've only seen an old Soviet movie adaptation. I remember I really enjoyed it 📚
@@bookishtopics Yes, I have seen several adaptation of the book on RUclips. I don't understand Russian (Ukrainian? Cossack?) language, but I love them. But I read this is Starlin's favorite book and he read it before he went to bed. Ahhh! Terrible!
This year I plan to finish my 'banned book' collection. Two of those are Russian: Crime & Punishment and Lolita. Not sure if those are the best books to start with, but for 2022 I will have plenty of recommendations from you. 😊
I read Crime and Punishment in school and I remember really liking it. It's time to re-read it actually. It has been so long. I remember the plot in general, but I don't remember the details anymore. I hope you'll enjoy it! I want to read Lolita too. 🌞
I read The Golovlyov Family and The Village of Stepanchikovo in 2020 and I loved both of them!
If you want something funny, you could try the play Ivan Vasilievich by M. Bulgakov. You've probably seen the adaption (Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future by Leonid Gaidai), but in my opinion the play is slightly better.
Great list! Enjoy your reading!
Thank you 😊
I've been wanting to explore Russian literature more. I'll try to join you in 2021 and attempt to read some Russian classics. I have only read a couple of Russian classics but I do have a small list of books I want to buy.
😥my tbr, but I'm excited for all those books I never heard before.
Gotta eat ramen for a month to buy more books 😁
This is a great video! So many splendid recommendations! I'll have to check some of them out. Reading more Russian classics was one of my resolutions this year.
I hope you'll enjoy the books you decide to read! 🌞📖
I finished Dr Zhivago in the beginning of January and I was blown away, such a great novel. I can already tell it will be in my top ten of the year🙌
I'm glad you loved it :) I'm very excited myself to finally get to it :)
What translation did you read?
@@TheJengagirl a Norwegian one
This is terrible! My TBR list keeps getting longer with your recommendations. I will not read all of Gogol, but I want to read many of the books you mention here. Thank you for this. Thank God I didn't make a new years resolution to buy fewer books.
I read Eugene Onegin by Pushkin a year ago and it blew my mind with how beautiful it was so I really hope to pick up more Pushkin in the near future. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky has been on my TBR for years at this point so fingers crossed I actually pick it up and finish it this year!
I had the misanthrope from Moliere and I have definitely put the retelling of Fyodor.
I have also going to order the books from Bunon and Rasputin after listening to you.
Thanks to you I read the Blind Owl and I bought the Gadfly ( will read it this month).
Keep the amazing content and the long lists.:P. HAPPY New Year
Ohh Gadfly! I love that novel, I read it when I was in school. I need to re-read it myself. I remember the ending packed such a punch for me I couldn't stop thinking about it. I wonder if It'll be as impressive as it was if I re-read it. I hope so. I hope you'll enjoy the novel! Let me know what you will think of it 🌞
I'm currently buddy reading War and Peace, just one or two chapters a day. If it takes us all year then we're okay with that. It's my first foray into Russian literature and I'm really enjoying it so far!
I'm so glad you're enjoying it! Good luck! I need to re-read war and peace myself. But not this year probably. It's quite an undertaking and I decided this year to close as many gaps as I can in terms of classics from other countries. I hope you'll end up enjoying war and peace all the way through :) When I was reading it, war parts were a bit of a drag for me. But peace parts made up for all of that. So I ended up loving it still. Happy reading :)
@@bookishtopics we're still at the peace parts for now, and we're enjoying them! Fingers crossed I'll differ from you on the war parts but either way I'm looking forward to learning more about this classic!
I think my big favourite is Chechov. I also loved Anna Karenina but yeah Chechov did it for me. And thats interesting, because normally I'm not into shorter Stories.
I also like Loliate very much, i love the Author playing with psychology and the reader itself. Its not that easy to read , because of the circumstances of the Storyline. But in my opinion its worth to.
I really want to read Lolita. I've heard that's it disturbing, but I want to give it a try. 😊
What's ur favorite short story of Chekhov?
Oh Doctor Zhivago I want to read it but somehow I had never read it. I remember watching an adaptation of it on Italian TV and like it. So hopefully this year I will be able to read it💖
I haven't even seen a movie adaptation but there is a song in Russian with lyrics from this book and it's so beautiful! I really hope both of us will enjoy this novel 🌞 Happy Reading!
Your Russian reading list is quite impressive. The only Russian author I have on my bookshelves is Anton Chekhov. I have “The Steppe and Other Stories”, “The Russian Master and Other Stories”, and his play “The Cherry Orchard”. It’s been years since I read the stories and there are some I haven’t read at all yet. Perhaps I shall get back to them later this year.
I want to read the big one this year, War and Peace. I have read Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov and Fathers and Sons.
Ohhh good luck! You can do it! I read it ages ago for school. It was quite a challenge in war parts. Peace parts I really enjoyed. In war parts I struggled a lot. But I hope you'll enjoy! I need to read Anna Karenina. I never read it. I think I'll be suggesting it for the BBB in the future 🌟
I’d love to know if you’ve read any Tolstaya? If so, any you would recommend 💯 The same with Solzhenitsyn 💎
Unfortunately I haven't read anything by Tolstaya. Modern Russian literature is something I need to read more of. From Solzhenitsyn I've only read one day of Ivan Denisovich. It's a short novella I read it long time ago back in high school. But I remember liking it (if "like" is the right word for this, it was interesting and terrifying). I myself want to read his In The First Circle it's one of his most well-known works along with the gulag archipelago and Cancer Ward. Cancer ward terrifies me, so I don't know if I'll read it. He wrote it after he went through cancer treatment about his experiences in the hospital and other patients facing the terminal illness. I'll start with the first circle and then maybe gulag.
I love the Russian classics. I always recommend Anna Karenina, war and peace, and my favorite one Brothers Karamazov.
I love Russian classics. I plan to read A Hero of OUr Time by Turgenev this year and then figure out what others I want to read. I also plan to read a book about readers of Russian books called "The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read them" by Elif Batuman published in 2010.
I am reading The Count of Montecristo and I am suppose read The Tale of Two Cities and 1984. Those are books chosen by a reading club. I will like to read: crime and Punishment, Emma and some of the one you mentioned sound interesting. We’ll see how 2021 goes.
I hope you'll have a great reading year 😍
Great video. Doctor Zhivago took me a while to get through, but it's an interesting story.
Thank you 🌞 I'm very excited to read it 📖☕
Im really enthusiastic to read some of russian classics
Good luck! 🌞 I hope you'll enjoy!
What about your Russian classics reading list for 2022? Haven't you composed such a list? Did the Russian books on your 2021 list fall short, meet or exceed your expectations after your having read them (to the extent you have)? Perhaps you have addressed the latter question already, at least in piecemeal, but I have not come across it. Personally, I like to read the Russian original first keeping the English translation in reserve (for reference in case I don't understand something in Russian) so I often buy both for each literary work.
I’m planning on reading war and peace this year, I hope I like it considering it’s size
Good luck! I read it in high school. I remember really enjoying the Peace parts, but really struggling through War parts. Peace was very interesting and war very boring 😅 I wonder what I'd think about it now. I want to re-read it sometime in the future. I hope you'll like it! Good luck! 📚
@@bookishtopics I am just finishing it for the third time. I first read it in my teens and really struggled with it. The next time was in my 40s and enjoyed it more now nearly 70 and realising how rich it is. This is also the third translation and have noticed the odd change in phrasing and words used which I suppose is reflective of how language changes over time. I hope you enjoy it more the second time around.
@@ba-gg6jo I do plan on re-reading it maybe next year as I've forgotten almost everything by now. I really do hope I'll love it. :)
_The Golovlevs_ is the gloomiest Russian novel I have ever read. I liked it.
Only read War & Peace and the non-fic "classic" My Musical Life/Rimsky-Korsakov. When covid is over the local uni library'll be open again and I can read more Russian stuff, maybe from the Silver Age, a literary period I know almost 0 about. Which Russian non-fic "classics (over 75 years old) have you read?
I don't read non-fic to be honest. I did read some for my university. Like Losev The Dialectics of Myth and Philosophy of Mythology Culture. He's from the Silver Age as well. I guess you could count those books as classics but in a specific category - history of phylosophy. His books are widely studied by philosophy students in Russia. Not that I remember anything from there though. 😅
I bought an English translation of Anna Karenina yesterday, Sophia Clef is doing a readalong on her channel. Last year I started War & Peace but gave up after around 100 pages...
I've never read Anna Karenina. I think I'll suggest it for the BBB in the future. My friend read it and said it was really great. I hope you'll love it! 🌟 Happy Reading! 📖
I added more books after I followed you in the end of 2020 than I usually add in 3 months 😂♥️ I really like you choices and love your energy, I would like to ask you if you have translated Russian classics favorites you could recommend, I read roadside picnic last year and I really like it, and I would like to read more, not necessarily in that genre
Thank you very much! 🌞 I'm very happy you found some interesting books on my channel! As for classics recommendation, I really love A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov. It's a splendid novel. I also love the Garnet Bracelet by Alexander Kuprin. It's not a novel, just a very short novella, but it's very touching. I always cry when I read it. I love Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. It's about relationships between generations. Gogol's Taras Bulba is a very interesting novel about the Ukranian Kozaks. If you want something more contemporary, I don't have much experience with modern Russian literature, but I myself want to read works by Ludmila Ulitskaya (kukozky's enigma, Medea and her children etc) and Eugin Vodolazkin (Laurus, Aviator etc) I hope it helps! Happy New Year and Happy reading!
@@bookishtopics Thank you so much!! I added your recommendations to my tbr except for the Garnet Bracelet because it was already in my list from a previous video of yours. Can't wait to get into these. Happy new year to you too girl 💋
@@MsNonaElShanona Thank you :) I hope you'll enjoy them! Happy reading!
Dead Souls is on my list also.I tried to
read it when I was in Univ.Gogol didn't
seem to translate into English as well as Tolstoy& Chekov.I also read Zhivago
when I was younger and it definitely deserves a reread.However,at this time
Ulyesses and Proust are at the top of the list.
I'd love to read Ulysses one day too, but I feel like I need some more reading experience under my belt. I hear it's very difficult to read. So somewhere in the future, I'll give it a try too. Proust as well 👍 I hope you'll enjoy them both!
Hi, Tatiana. New subscriber here. I just discovered your channel and you seem very pleasant and cheerful person so I had to subscribe.
I wonder did you read And Quiet Flows the Don by Sholokhov? Anyway, keep up with good work.
Thank you very much 🌞 I haven't read the book, but I want to in the future. So far I've only seen old Soviet movie adaptation and really enjoyed it. 🌟
Hurrah, you mentioned one of my favourites, Quiet Flows the Don. I mention it as much as possible on all sorts of book sites, I am surprised I haven't been banned by RUclips for being a nuisance! Stay safe.
@@ba-gg6jo Hi Bob, thanks for your kind words. Unfortunately And Quite Flows the Don is not on radar for any of these "booktubers", no matter how many suggestions we gave. And we are talking about Nobel prize winner. Shame. Have a good day and sorry for my English
Good Luck with reading all of these :) I want to read Crime and Punishment this year because I saw a review of it recently that made it sound really interesting :) have you read it and can you recommend it?
Thank you! 🌞 Yes, we read Crime and Punishment in school. Definitely, it's one of those staple texts which are a must-read! I enjoyed it. Raskolnikov's theory and his way to realizing how wrong it is, was fascinating! His moral and spiritual growth in this novel were portrayed in such a great way. He is a fascinating protagonist. He's one of those whom you don't love, but nevertheless interested in. I hope you'll enjoy the book! Happy Reading! 📚
Greetings and blessings from San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima, Perú.
I wish I could read Pasternak, not to mention Pushkin, in Russian. A new writer I discovered last year - Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950) four of his books have been published by New York Review of Books (translation by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov) : Unwitting Street, Autobiography of a Corpse, The Letter Killers Club, The Return of Munchausen, and Memories of the Future.
The Ukrainian born son of Polish immigrants, Krzhizhanovsky wrote in a cell-like room in Arbat for two decades, largely unknown in his time.
Newcomers to Dostoevsky usually begin with Crime and Punishment: I think it is better to begin with The House of the Dead, the narrative of his imprisonment, followed by Notes from the Underground, then Demons (also translated as The Possessed and The Devils) and then The Idiot.
His shorter fiction works should never be missed. The Brothers Karamazov is best read quite late: Patrick White the Australian novelist said The Brothers goes as far as it is possible in addressing the human condition.
Thanks for all your recommendations: I am making notes: the bookshops will reopen after this health crisis.
I should read some Russian classic but iI am intimidated by dome of them such as War and peace, Doctor Zivago
I notice that all the authors are male! Do you have any female authors to recommend? I love your channel, Tanya - amongst my favourites. xxx
It is something I'm working at. 😅 I don't know a single female writer from the 19th century in Russia. All the ones I know are men. So far I've only found one article talking about women writers in the 19th century. So I need to search more. 📚
Спасибо большое! Какие хорошие рекомендации! Пожалуйста, делились любимыми русскими Booktube каналами. Мне не очень удалось найти интересных русскоговорящих влогерш и влогеров. Жажду роликов русского Booktube!
Здравствуйте :) мне очень нравится канал Дочитаю, и спать! Там очень приятная девушка Кристина. Мне очень нравятся её видео. CALVADOZE тоже очень хороший канал.Алиса Дёма мне тоже нравится и Lera Zhuk, но у них я не всё смотрю. Выборочно, если что заинтересует. Больше всех мне Кристина нравится.
@@bookishtopics спасибочки!