Good summer reads

[classicrara]

Hey, I am new here. I am a college student, and an avid reader. I have read most of what are considered to be the greatest 100 books ever written. I thought this summer I'd read some more foreign stuff, particularly Russian, or Eastern European authors. Stuff like Vladamir Nabokav, my favorite author.
Any suggestions?

[DisPater]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago

[Jeremiah Jazzz]

If you love Nabokov, check out one of his favorite books called Petersberg by Andrei Bely. That's what I plan on reading this summer!

[eyemaker]

Turgenev will be a great pick..try Fathers and Sons

[My name is red]

I was just thinking about this,what to read in summer.Probably i would suggest more dynamic stuff,basically american literature etc
Tom robbins
Salinger
maybe,Jonathan Safran Foer
I have been meaning to read this last year's pulitzer winner book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz for awhile now.I believe,summer will be a good time to do that.

[Pryderi Agni]

Read The Collected Works of Nikolai Gogol. It's a favor you'll be doing to yourself because, as Tolstoy once said, "We all came out of Gogol's Overcoat" (The Overcoat being a short story by him).

[bazarov]

Read The Collected Works of Nikolai Gogol. It's a favor you'll be doing to yourself because, as Tolstoy once said, "We all came out of Gogol's Overcoat" (The Overcoat being a short story by him).

Dostoevsky said that, not Tolstoy :)

Dr Zhivago by Pasternak
Oblomov by Goncharov
Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Dead Souls by Gogol

I guess Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were on that ''100'' list so I won't add them here.

[kelby_lake]

Russian books are pretty heavy going for summer

[Olga4real]

Russian books are pretty heavy going for summer

Let me disagree with you, have you read Gogol?
Try to read short stories by Chechov you will like them!

[Tsuyoiko]

Dr Zhivago by Pasternak



Russian books are pretty heavy going for summer

I think Dr Zhivago is a good choice. I didn't find it at all heavy going. Imagine reading about the train stuck in the snow drift at the height of summer. That's my idea of escapism :D

How about The Cossacks or The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy? They are both relatively light reads.

[amarna]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Olga4real]

If you like romantic books why don't you read A Hunting Drama by Chekhov.