Readalikes: If you enjoyed April's selection . . .

If you enjoyed Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, then you might also enjoy these books and films suggested by our discussion group members:

• Dead Souls and others by Nikolai Gogol
• Notes from Underground and others by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• War and Peace and other by Leo Tolstoy
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
• The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History by Thomas Harding
• Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union by Conor O'Clery
• Red Notice: A Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
• The Death of Stalin, a graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin--and the movie it inspired with Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi, and Jason Isaacs.
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles--Soon to be a television series starring Kenneth Branagh!