 | Demons: A Novel in Three Parts by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £4.24 A dread atmosphere, astonishing set pieces, flashes of Dostoevsky's unique humour and uncanny prescience. The master at the height of his powers.
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 | Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £4.27 Tolstoy's incredible ability to put the reader inside the scene is on show throughout - particularly the justly famous harvesting episode.
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 | Kolyma Tales by Varlan Shalamov
Buy new: £7.43 / Used from: £7.18 Superb, understated, horrifying.
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 | The Brothers Karamazov by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £1.50 His final opus, the first of a planned trilogy, and yet another example of Dostoevky's deep insight into desperate human actions.
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 | My Childhood (Twentieth Century Classics) by Maxim Gorky
Buy new: £6.32 / Used from: £2.28 A beautiful, if sometimes brutal, book - and one which should be better known. Intensely readable and full of life.
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 | War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A giant book in every sense. The only problem is it should have been longer. Tolstoy grabs the reader by the throat and doesn't let go.
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 | The Idiot (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £2.80 One of the darkest books in world literature.
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 | Dead Souls (Penguin Classics) by Nikolai Gogol
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.32 A strange and funny story, and essential reading for those interested in the Golden Age.
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 | Moscow Stations by Venedikt Erofeev
Buy used from: £40.00 One from the late Soviet era. A mordantly humorous, alcohol sodden tale.
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 | The Heart of a Dog (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £3.30 Less famous than Master and Margarita, but possibly better, certainly funnier.
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 | Notes from the Underground by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.70 The first book by Dostoevsky that truly feels like he wrote it. A stepping off point for the astonishing novels that were to follow.
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 | Resurrection (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £1.70 The last novel that he wrote. Perhaps not quite up there with AK and War and Peace, but any fiction by Tolstoy is worth reading.
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 | Selected Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Anna Akhmatova
Buy used from: £0.01 The great Silver Age poetess provides a sobering snapshot of early Soviet society, amongst other things.
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 | Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Another brilliant, epic novel that provides a neat bridge between the Golden and Silver ages.
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| My Apprenticeship My Universities: 007 by Maxim Gorky
The sequels to My Childhood. If you've read that, you will want to read these...
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 | From the Reminiscences of Private Ivanov and Other Stories by Vsevolod Garshin
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £7.18 Very interesting collection of work by this brilliant, albeit obscure, 19th century writer.
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 | Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.42 The classic of sin and redemption, and the first of Dostoevsky's "miraculous" novels.
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 | Time within Time: Diaries, 1970-86 by Andrei Tarkovsky
Buy new: £19.00 / Used from: £15.50 Fascinating reading from the great auteur of late Soviet cinema.
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 | Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £3.98 Allegorical tale.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £0.01 Non-allegorical tale.
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 | We (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.04 Hugely influential dystopian novel.
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 | A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Lermontov
Buy used from: £3.96 An inspiration to all the later (and possibly greater) Russian novelists of the 19th century, and still worth reading today.
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