Books set in Ukraine

Ukraine — Kyiv

1996
Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov · novel · 1996
A struggling Kyiv writer with a pet penguin is hired to write obituaries in advance.
1935
The Wine of Solitude
Irène Némirovsky · novel · 1935
1910s: a lonely girl grows up in a rich, cold family in Kyiv.
1925
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov · novel · 1925
A family in Kyiv waits as armies fight over the city in the civil war.

2011
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
Charles King · history · 2011
Two centuries of Odesa, from imperial port to Soviet city.
1931
Odessa Stories
Isaac Babel · stories · 1931
1900s: Benya Krik and the Jewish gangsters of Odesa’s Moldavanka district.