What to Read After Gulag
Readers who loved Gulag by Anne Applebaum keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Gulag is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Gulag
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
Stalin
The Whisperers
Bloodlands
Lenin's tomb
Ivan's war
Young Stalin
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ. T. 1-2
The great terror
The forsaken
Man is wolf to man
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
The Years of Extermination, 1939–1945 (Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 2)
The Gulag Archipelago, Two
Iron Curtain
Dancing under the red star
A history of modern Russia from Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin
Imperial reckoning
Stalingrad
The Fall of Berlin, 1945
A people's tragedy
Peter the Great
The Spanish Civil War
Postwar