So figured DLP&Chill needed some love,

For the year of 2020, lets read some books, I picked some of my favorites to kick things off but until we get about 24 I don't want to start a serious thread. If at all possible I will track down ePubs and PDFs for all the fics so no one has to waste money.

Poll is here, I'll close it the 31st of December, and we'll probably start reading around then, it is multiple choice.
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Whoops, made it multiple choice instead of Checkboxes, fixed

 

Damn, I want to read almost all of those books. I'm so in.

 

Can I recommend some more?

While everyone in the West knows Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Gogol and Pushkin were equally influential, if not more so. To truly get a sense of the Russian novel in the 19th century, you have to include at least Eugene Onegin (Pushkin) and Dead Souls (Gogol).

Then there is all the Soviet literature from the 20th century. Five I'd recommend -

Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita - quite possibly the best Soviet era novel.
Zamyatin's We - influenced both 1984 and Brave New World
Pelevin's Omon Ra and Generation P (in English available as Homo Zapiens or Babylon)
Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic - the origin of S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Stalker.

 

Okay, evidently no one really wants to read most of these titles, so in my new free time since school is over, if everyone is amenable we can switch to modern fantasy, and sci-fi stories.

 

Shit man, I'm reading In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. Novelized nonfiction is my absolute jam right now. Every quote and piece of dialogue is directly taken from William Dodd's or one of his acquaintances' journals.