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Alexander "Sasha" VolokhFavorite booksNote: Some of the books have been on the list for a long time and I haven't reread them since. So I take no responsibility for the book choices of a previous self. A.A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Alan Lightman. Einstein's Dreams (1993) Aleksandr Pushkin. Evgenii Onegin (1833) Amor Towles. A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Terre des hommes (1933) Arthur Koestler. Darkness at Noon (1940) Audrey Niffenegger. The Time Traveler's Wife (2003) Ayn Rand. Anthem (1938) Brian Tierney. Foundations of the Conciliar Theory: The Contribution of the Medieval Canonists from Gratian to the Great Schism (1955) Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio (1880) Carol Shields. The Stone Diaries (1989) Charles Dickens. Bleak House (1852-1853) Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847) Dan Simmons. Hyperion (1989) David Benioff. City of Thieves (2008) Eliot Asinof. Eight Men Out (1963) Emile Zola. Germinal (1885) Eugene O'Neill. The Iceman Cometh (1946) Frank Herbert. Dune (1965) Franz Kafka. The Castle (1926) Gal Beckerman. When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry (2010) Geoff Ryman. Air: Or, Have Not Have (2005) George Eliot. Middlemarch (1871) Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) Henry Fielding. Tom Jones (1749) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Song of Hiawatha (1855) Herman Melville. Moby-Dick (1851) Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov. The Twelve Chairs (1928) J.M. Barrie. Peter Pan (1904) J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Jules Verne. Michel Strogoff (1876) Junot D’az. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) Karel Capek. War with the Newts (1936) Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows (1908) Lewis Carroll. The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind (1936) Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1881) Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow (1996) Michael Chabon. The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon (1999) Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Good Omens (1990) Paul Auster. The New York Trilogy (1990) Pearl Buck. The Good Earth (1931) Peter Thorpe. Why Literature is Bad for You (1980) Petr Beckman. History of Pi (1971) Richard Adams. Watership Down (1972) Roger Zelazny. Lord of Light (1967) Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children (1981) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th cent.) Terry Pratchett. The Wyrd Sisters (1988) Thomas Hardy. Jude the Obscure (1895) Umberto Eco. The Name of the Rose (1983) Valmiki. Ramayana (3rd cent. B.C.) Victor Hugo. Notre Dame de Paris (1831) W. Somerset Maugham. The Moon and Sixpence (1919) William Golding. Lord of the Flies (1954) Return to literature page Return to home page 
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