Sofia Petrovna
by Lydia Chukovskaya | 
Farewell to Matyora
by Valentin Rasputin | 
The Petty Demon
by Fyodor Sologub | 
Pushkin House
by Andrei Bitov |
The Foundation Pit
by Andrey Platonov |
The Island of Crimea
by Vasily Aksyonov |
A Theatrical Novel
by Mikhail Bulgakov | 
Petersburg
by Andrei Bely |
The Yawning Heights
by Aleksandr Zinovyev | 
The Twelve Chairs
by Ilya Ilf |
Generations of Winter
by Vassily Aksyonov | 
Mother
by Maxim Gorky | 
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov |
Everything Flows
by Vasily Grossman |
The Golovlyov Family
by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin | 
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck | 
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger | 
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens | 
Stoner
by John Williams | 
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf |
Yerofeev was born inside the Arctic Circle in 1938 and died of throat cancer in 1990. Until a few years before his death, this autobiographical novel - a monument to the Soviet Union in decline - circulated in typescript and rarely moved beyond a few major cities.