Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All the Sad Young Literary Men | 2008 | Keith Gessen | Buy |
| 2 | A Terrible Country | 2018 | Keith Gessen | Buy |
Keith Gessen’s standalone novels are rooted in the experience of educated young men trying to figure out what matters. All the Sad Young Literary Men follows three friends through their twenties as they chase literary ambition and romantic connection in post-9/11 America.
A Terrible Country shifts the setting to contemporary Moscow, where an American-born Russian grapples with his grandmother’s decline and the pull of a country he barely knows. Both novels are wry, self-aware, and skeptical of easy answers.