Freshman Reading List

Russia

 

Books marked with an * are available in the GHHS Library.

 

Young Adult Fiction

 

  Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer by Andrei Makine

 

*Exit From Home by Anita Heyman

 

  The Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky

 

  Your Mouth is Lovely: a Novel by Nancy Richler

 

Anthologies

 

*The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader

 

Non-Fiction

 

  The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Rudomin Hautzig - YA

 

 * The Romanovs: The Final Chapter - Adult

 

 *Stalin - the library has 4 biographies

 

Adult Fiction by Russian Authors - An Extra Challenge

(Although these books are reviewed as adult books for young adults, they may contain mature adult content.)

 

Chekhov:                                                                    Tolstoy:                                                          

 *Best Plays by Chekhov                                            *Anna Karenina

 

 *Chekhov: Four Plays                                               *War and Peace

 

Dostoyevsky:                                                               Turgenev:

 

 *The Brothers Karamazov                                         *Fathers and Children

 

*The Death of Ivan Ilyich                                           *Fathers and Sons