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24 alternatives to Dreams of My Russian Summers: A Novel

Memory and Imagination of Coming of Age in France and Russia

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dreams of My Russian Summers: A Novel launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

   The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

   2017 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Book of Disquiet▲61

   A haunting mosaic of dreams

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Eleanor: A Novel▲72

   A mix of ghost story, time travel and dream worlds.

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   "The Bird Market" By Anton Chekhov▲62

   TFW You Learn More About Life From A Bird, Than From School

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Train Dreams▲55

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   2015 · its alternatives →

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   Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World▲56

   Investigation of key ideas that have shaped our urban spaces

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris▲65

   Edmund White's travelogue of his time in Paris

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   All the Light We Cannot See▲80

   WWII fiction from both French and German point of view

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   LoveSexTravelMusik▲55

   Stories for the EasyJet generation

   2015 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Sapiens▲185

    A brief history of humankind

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    My Struggle▲56

    Karl Ove Knausgaard's autobiographical phenomenon

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Imaginary Cities▲70

    Mapping cities of sound, melancholia and the afterlife

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The Gene▲64

    An Intimate History

    2016 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    War in Val D’Orcia▲55

    An Italian War diary 1943–1944

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Making Ideas Happen▲75

    Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Master and Margarita▲64

    Satirical novel set in Moscow in the 1920's

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Wonderbook▲78

    The Illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Bending Adversity▲69

    A look at Japan's recent developments in Asia and the World

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Behind the Beautiful Forevers▲56

    Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai slum

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Exlibrium: Book One▲58

    The most popular and critically acclaimed Russian comic book

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Inventology▲72

    How we dream up things that change the world

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Black Swan▲80

    The impact of the highly improbable

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Great War and Modern Memory ▲77

    Profound study on how WW1 created our ironic, modern world

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Brown Girl Dreaming▲60

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    2015 · its alternatives →

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