Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Symphony for the City of the Dead | 2015 | M.T. Anderson | Buy |
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (2015) is M.T. Anderson’s non-fiction account of one of the most dramatic stories in musical history. The book follows Shostakovich as he composes his Seventh Symphony while Leningrad starves under German siege during World War II.
Anderson writes the history with the same narrative skill he brings to his fiction, making the siege and its musical response vivid and immediate. The book won several awards and is one of the strongest works of narrative non-fiction written for young adult readers.