The best known books set in each country: Russia

See here for methodology.

TitleAuthorGoodreads
raters
LibraryThing
owners
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky912,10544,315
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy853,18838,580
LolitaVladimir Nabokov855,14831,766
The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky335,11929,578
War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy330,12128,957
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov356,99320,464
A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles552,6089,189
The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky184,37016,283

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.

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