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Compiled Nabokov Reading List

Obviously I recommend all of these books but for the sake of priority or importance I have bolded the titles I personally recommend when it comes to initially interacting with Nabokov with a big, big emphasis on enjoying (a word, I hasten to add, not to be associated with vapid pleasure but something more meaningful, intellectually stimulating and cognitively enriching) his work. I’ve also asterisked the fiction I personally feel to be masterpieces for those who want to get stuck into the books that embody the very best of the writer. This list is by no means exhaustive or complete but most of the titles are either highly interesting, highly flawed, highly important, a personal favourite, or all four combined.

Mary

King, Queen, Knave

*The Luzhin Defense

The Eye

Glory

Despair

*Invitation to a Beheading

**The Gift

*The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

*Bend Sinister

*Pnin

Lolita

**The Annotated Lolita (edited by) Alfred Appel Jr.

**Pale Fire

Eugene Onegin, Volume 1: Introduction and Translation

Eugene Onegin, Volume 2: Commentary and Index

**Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Transparent Things

Strong Opinions

Lolita: A Screenplay

Look at the Harlequins!

Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov and (translated by) Vladimir Nabokov

The Song of Igor’s Campaign (translated) by Vladimir Nabokov

Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry (translated) by Vladimir Nabokov and (edited by) Brian Boyd

Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977 (edited) by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Bruccoli

Lectures on Russian Literature

Lectures on Literature

Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971 (edited) by Simon Karlinsky

Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by Vladimir Nabokov and (edited by) Brian Boyd

Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov (translated by Olga Voronina and edited by Brian Boyd)

Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov (Literary Conversations Series)

Insomniac Dreams (edited) by Gennady Barabtarlo

Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor translated by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy

Critical Work

Aerial View: Essays on Nabokov’s Art and Metaphysics by Gennady Barabtarlo

Approaches to Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita (edited) by Zoran Kuzmanovich & Galya Diment

The Cambridge Companion to Vladimir Nabokov (edited) by Julian W. Connolly

Crystal Land: Artifice in Nabokov’s English Novels by Julia Bader

Discourse and Ideology in Vladimir Nabokov’s Prose (edited) by David Larmour

Escape into Aesthetics: The Art of Vladimir Nabokov by Page Stegner

The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s English Prose by Jürgen Bodenstein

The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship by Alex Beam

Find What the Sailor has Hidden: Vladimir Nabokov and Pale Fire by Priscilla Meyer

Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art

The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov (edited) by Vladimir Alexandrov

The Goalkeeper, The Nabokov Almanac by Yuri Leving

The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov by Andrew Field

Keys to The Gift, A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel by Yuri Leving

Lolita (edited) by Harold Bloom

Lolita (The Story of a Cover Girl): Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design by John Bertram and Yuri Leving

The Magician’s Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction by Michael Wood

The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction by Marina Grishakova

Nabokov: Criticism, Reminiscences, Translations and Tributes (edited) by Alfred Appel Jr. and Charles Newman

Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures by Leona Toker

Nabokov and the Question of Morality: Aesthetics, Metaphysics, and the Ethics of Fiction (edited) by Michael Rodgers and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time by Will Norman

Nabokov, Perversely by Eric Naiman

Nabokov, Rushdie and the Transnational Imagination: Novels of Exile and

Nabokov and His Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace by Duncan White

Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives (edited) by Julian Connolly

Nabokov and Indeterminacy by Priscilla Meyer

Nabokov and the Novel by Ellen Pifer

Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita by Robert Roper

Nabokov in Context (edited) by Siggy Frank and David M. Bethea

Nabokov Upside Down (edited) by Brian Boyd and Marijeta Bozovic

Nabokov’s Ada: The Place of Consciousness by Brian Boyd

Nabokov’s Art of Memory and European Modernism by John Burt Foster

Nabokov’s Berlin by Dieter E. Zimmer

Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates

Nabokov’s Canon: From Eugene Onegin to Ada by Marijeta Bozovic

Nabokov’s Dark Cinema by Alfred Appel, Jr.

Nabokov's Eros and the Poetics of Desire by Maurice Couturier

Nabokov’s Otherworld by Vladimir E. Alexandrov

Nabokov’s Palace: The American Years by Márta Pellérdi

Nabokov’s Permanent Mystery: The Expression of Metaphysics in His Work by David S. Rutledge

Nabokov’s Shakespeare by Samuel Schuman

Nabokov’s Spectral Dimension by William Woodin Rowe

Nabokov’s Theatrical Imagination by Siggy Frank

Nabokov's Women, The Silent-Sisterhood of Textual Nomads

Nabokov’s Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd

The Quill and the Scalpel, Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science by Stephen H. Blackwell

A Reader's Guide to Lolita by Julian W. Connolly

The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov by Andrea Pitzer

Silent Love: The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Gerard De Vries

Stalking Nabokov by Brian Boyd

Véra: Mrs. Nabokov by Stacy Schiff

Vladimir Nabokov by Barbara Wyllie

Vladimir Nabokov: America’s Russian Author by G.M. Hyde

Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd

Vladimir Nabokov: Poetry and the Lyric Voice by Paul Morris

Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd

Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Painting by Gerard de Fries & D. Barton Johnson

Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play by Thomas Karshan

Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism by Dana Dragunoiu

Vladimir Nabokov: The Velvet Butterfly by Alan Levy

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature: Portraits of the Artist as Reader and Teacher (edited) by Ben Dhooge & Jürgen Pieters

Zina’s Paradox: The Figured Reader in Nabokov’s Gift by Stephen H. Blackwell

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