Where to start reading books by the Ruskies? I'm tossing

Start with Bayan Shiryanov.

>>8999002
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5027034.Bayan_SHiryanov

You yanking my chain, friend?

You could start with a smaller book like One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch or A hero of our time.

>>8998995
You don't

Start with Notes

May as well skip the effort of reading and just go to church instead after that

Start with Tolstoy's Confessions, then War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and finally to Master and Margarita and One Day, if you're feeling really ambitious the entire Gulag Archipelago.

You can also read the Idiot, Demons, Fathers and Sons as an added option and I highly recommend it.

>>8999091
I agree with this fellow.

Also, you can't go wrong with a Tolstoy novella like the Cossacks or the Death of Ivan Illych, very accessible stuff

>>8998995
The Overcoat.

>>8999007
He's the best. There must be translations somewhere.

>>8999091
Good advice. I am Russian. Imho Dostoevsky and Tolstoy too boring. Add to list.
Nikolai Gogol’s "The Nose" and "The Overcoat"
Good short life stories Chekhov wrote, you can start with not too short "Ward No. 6".
"How the Steel Was Tempered" Nikolai Ostrovsky
"Tale of a True Man" Boris Polevoy
Among contemporary writers good Pelevin with his "Hermit and Six-fingered" or "Yellow arrow"

>>8998995
you start with Tolstoy

>>8998995
The overcoat, by Gogol
>Short
>Tragicomic
>Gives you a true glance of russian writing

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>>8999125
Thanks mate, went with the Death of Ivan Illych

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>>8999158
>ooh some actually good advice..
>Pelevin
kys

The best is Turgenev's "Diary of a Hunter" (or whatever, there are different translations with different names)