Requiem for a Lost Empire
by Andrei Makine | 
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr | 
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay | 
City of Thieves
by David Benioff | 
Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett | 
Five Quarters of the Orange
by Joanne Harris | 
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra | 
The Invisible Bridge
by Julie Orringer | 
HHhH
by Laurent Binet | 
The Kindly Ones
by Jonathan Littell | 
The Generals
by Simon Scarrow | 
Wave of Terror
by Theodore Odrach | 
The Ogre
by Michel Tournier | 
War of the Rats
by David L. Robbins | 
War of the Rats
by David Robbins | 
All Our Worldly Goods
by Irene Nemirovsky | 
Young Bloods
by Simon Scarrow | 
The Romanov Bride
by Robert Alexander | 
Europe Central
by William T. Vollmann | 
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford |
- Dreams of My Russian Summers, the first book in the trilogy, was a national bestseller, both in hardcover and paperback, with over 225,000 combined copies sold.- The second book in the trilogy, Requiem for a Lost Empire, had been called a "powerful and compelling novel: shocking, harrowing, beautiful, and in many ways profound" (Washington Times).- This trilogy will surely be hailed as a contemporary War and Peace in years to come.