Evgeny Lebedev Book Club
Next Meeting
Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (1984) — 3 October 2026, 19:00 Moscow time.
Selected by Evgeny Lebedev. To join the discussion, join the club’s Telegram chat.
Rules
- Each participant, in an order determined by chance, proposes a book for discussion.
- The participant who selected the book introduces it at the meeting.
- Those present at a meeting have priority when the next book is chosen.
Book List
| No. | Title | Author | First edition | Discussion | Selected by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Flaubert’s Parrot | Julian Barnes | England: Jonathan Cape, 1984 | 2026-10-03 | Evgeny Lebedev |
| 26 | The Wanderer | Alexander Veltman | Russia: Moskovskii Telegraf, 1832 | 2026-08-29 | Filipp Dvornik |
| 25 | The Sea-Wolf | Jack London | US: Macmillan, 1904 | 2026-07-25 | Elizaveta Kaluzhskaya |
| 24 | The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana | Umberto Eco | Italy: Bompiani, 2004 | 2026-06-20 | Aleksandr Spiridonov Jr. |
| 23 | The Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andrić | Belgrade: Prosveta, 1945 | 2026-05-09 | Filipp Dvornik |
| 22 | The Golovlyov Family | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin | Saint Petersburg: Otechestvennye Zapiski, 1880 | 2026-03-21 | Evgeny Lebedev |
| 21 | Theatrical Novel | Mikhail Bulgakov | Moscow: Novy Mir, 1965, no. 8 | 2026-01-31 | Aleksandr Spiridonov Jr. |
| 20 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001 | 2025-12-27 | Evgeny Lebedev |
| 19 | Locus Solus | Raymond Roussel | Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1914 | 2025-11-29 | Aleksandr Spiridonov Jr. |
| 18 | Homo Faber | Max Frisch | Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1957 | 2025-04-12 | Asya |
| 17 | The Stranger in the Woods | Michael Finkel | New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 | 2025-03-08 | Maria |
| 16 | Secrets of the Red Sea | Henry de Monfreid | Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1931 | 2025-02-08 | Elizaveta Kaluzhskaya |
| 15 | The Tower | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | Berlin: S. Fischer, 1927 | 2025-01-07 | Evgeny Lebedev |
| 14 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | Foligno: Johann Numeister & Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472 | 2024-09-27 | Aleksandr Spiridonov Jr. |
| 13 | Arcadia | Tom Stoppard | London: Faber and Faber, 1993 | 2024-07-06 | Ksenia Spiridonova |
| 12 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1922 | 2024-06-08 | Evgeny |
| 11 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961 | 2024-05-11 | Nikolai |
| 10 | The Good Soldier Švejk | Jaroslav Hašek | Prague: Fr. Borový, 1921–1923 | 2024-04-13 | Pavel |
| 9 | Envy | Yury Olesha | Moscow–Leningrad: Zemlya i Fabrika, 1928 | 2024-03-09 | Evgeny Lebedev |
| 8 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | London: N. Ling & John Trundell, 1603 | 2024-02-10 | Aleksandr Spiridonov Jr. |
| 7 | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | London: Chapman & Hall, 1836–1837 | 2023-11-05 | Oleg |
| 6 | The Odyssey | Homer | Florence: Bartolommeo de Libri, 1488 | 2023-08-27 | Ksenia Spiridonova |
| 5 | Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | New York: Random House, 1985 | 2023-02-11 | Pavel |
| 4 | The War of the End of the World | Mario Vargas Llosa | Barcelona: Editorial Seix Barral, 1981 | 2022-12-29 | Andrei |
| 3 | La Ronde | Arthur Schnitzler | Vienna: Wiener Verlag, 1903 | 2022-11-12 | Evgeny Lebedev |
| 2 | The Royal Way | André Malraux | Paris: Grasset, 1930 | 2022-10-23 | Ilya |
| 1 | The Temptation of Saint Anthony | Gustave Flaubert | Paris: Charpentier et Cie, 1874 | 2022-09-11 | Aleksandr Spiridonov Jr. |