See here for methodology.
Title | Author | Goodreads raters | LibraryThing owners |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 912,105 | 44,315 |
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 853,188 | 38,580 |
The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 335,119 | 29,578 |
War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 330,121 | 28,957 |
The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 356,993 | 20,464 |
A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | 552,608 | 9,189 |
The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 184,370 | 16,283 |
I actually looked at this in 2015, and came up with much the same result; Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, in that order, with The Master and Margarita ahead of War and Peace on Goodreads and vice versa. (Russia is barely mentioned in Lolita, which is mostly set in the USA.) But A Gentleman in Moscow was only published in 2016, and it’s zoomed into third place on Goodreads, if not so popular on LibraryThing. Not sure how to interpret that.
Next in this sequence: Mexico.
India | China | USA | Indonesia | Pakistan | Nigeria | Brazil (revisited) | Bangladesh (revisited) | Russia | Mexico | Japan | Philippines (revisited) | Ethiopia (revisited) | Egypt | DR Congo | Vietnam | Iran | Türkiye | Germany | France | Thailand | UK | Tanzania | South Africa | Italy | Myanmar | Kenya | Colombia | South Korea | Sudan | Uganda | Spain | Algeria | Iraq | Argentina | Afghanistan