Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Candle in the Wind | 1960 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 2 | Matryona’s House and Other Stories | 1963 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 3 | Stories and Prose Poems | 1963 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 4 | Victory Celebrations, Prisoners & The Love-Girl & The Innocent | 1969 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 5 | Prussian Nights: A Poem | 1974 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 6 | We Never Make Mistakes | 2004 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 7 | Apricot Jam: And Other Stories | 2008 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 8 | Voices from the Gulag | 2009 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s collections bring together short fiction, prose poems, and verse spanning from the early 1960s to the 2000s. Matryona’s House and Other Stories (1963) includes his celebrated story about a peasant woman whose quiet goodness stands against the corruption around her. Stories and Prose Poems, also from 1963, collects shorter pieces in a more lyrical mode.
Prussian Nights (1974) is a narrative poem Solzhenitsyn composed and memorized while in the labor camps, describing the Red Army’s invasion of East Prussia in 1945. His later collections include We Never Make Mistakes (2004) and Apricot Jam (2008), which gathers stories written in his final years about life in contemporary Russia. Voices from the Gulag (2009) is a posthumous collection of testimonies and writings connected to the camp system.