The Week of a Three-Eyed (Sedmitsa Trehglazogo) by Boris Akunin (read in Russian). Text by Dmitry Glukhovskiy (read in Russian). Bad Weather (Nenastie) by Alexei Ivanov (read in Russian). Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. 
Aviator by Evgeny Vodolazkin (read in Russian). My Lieutenant by Daniil Granin (read in Russian). Lavr by Evgeny Vodolazkin (read in Russian). Zuleiha Closes Her Eyes by Guzel Yakhina (read in Russian). A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver. The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov (read in Russian). Unseen London by by Mark Daly and Peter Dazeleyġ0. 
10 Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim MarshallĨ. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendtĥ. What Makes Live Worth Living in the Face of Death by Paul KalanithiĤ. Famous Clubs, Legendary Players and Dramatic Plots by Ivan Kalashnikov (read in Russian)ģ. Russian Model of Governance by Alexander Prohorov (read in Russian)Ģ. Case Studies of Lives Between Lives by Michael Newtonġ. The Pathway to Surrender by David HawkinsĤ. The Classic Tribute to Hope from Holocaust by Viktor FranklĢ. How Great Leader Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results by Judith Glaserġ.
Innovators in Digital News by Lucy Kung. Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by Martin Ford Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream by Amy Webb Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari The History of Russian State, volume IV, XVII century, by Boris Akunin (read in Russian). All of them are real printed books - I still can not make myself to become an e-reader! I am often asked how I manage to find time to read - I would say that I read for about 8 hours a week on average (8 x 30 mins commutes to and from the office Monday to Thursday, 30 mins before going to bed several times a week and here and there across weekends).Ĥ4 titles are tidily divided into 22 fiction and 22 non-fiction titles, of which 14 are in Russian - this year I have properly dived deep into modern Russian fiction literature, and it’s been one of the personal highlights) and the rest in English. 
In 2017 I have been listening to lots of podcasts, too, building on a habit that really developed last year (a list of my favourite podcasts from 2017 is at the end of this piece). We are all leading much faster lives, with new distractions appearing almost on a weekly basis, both offline and online. I am thrilled with having achieved my personal best in reading in 2017 - I was never able to read so many books in a single year thus far ( 40 in 2016, 41 in 2015, 32 in 2014, when I started this annual tradition of sharing my reading impressions). I read 44 books in 2017 and the highlights are…
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