The Feast of All Saints vs Доктор Живаго: Which Should You Read?

The Feast of All Saints Anne Rice · 1979 ★★★★☆ 3.7 640 pages · ≈ 11 h 51 m · Moderate

Set in 1840's New Orleans, this historical novel traces the journey of the community of free people of color who were feared and ignored by whites. Suspended between worlds of black and white, finding stability only int…

Доктор Живаго Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957 ★★★★☆ 3.7 558 pages · ≈ 10 h 20 m · Challenging

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's…