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Boris Pasternak Books in Order

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890–1960) was a Russian poet, prose writer, novelist, memoirist, and dramatist. His major poetry collections include Twin in the Clouds, My Sister—Life, Themes and Variations, Second Birth, On Early Trains, Earth's Expanse, and When the Weather Clears. His prose includes the autobiographical Safe Conduct, the novella A Tale, and the novel Doctor Zhivago, first published in Italian in 1957. He also wrote children's verse and the unfinished posthumously published play The Blind Beauty. From the 1930s onward, literary translation—especially of Shakespeare, Goethe, and Georgian poets—formed a major part of his career, although translations and editorial work are excluded from this bibliography.

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Doctor Zhivago

Pasternak's internationally canonical novel and the most accessible introduction to his prose.

My Sister—Life

The defining early poetry collection that established his reputation as a major Russian poet.

Safe Conduct

A compact autobiographical prose work that illuminates his ideas about art, literature, and his contemporaries.

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Novels (2)
  1. A Tale

    novella · 1934

  2. Doctor Zhivago

    novel · 1957

Nonfiction (2)
  1. Safe Conduct

    memoir · 1931

  2. An Essay in Autobiography

    memoir · 1959

Short fiction (1)
  1. Stories

    short-story-collection · 1925

Children's books (2)
  1. The Menagerie

    children's-poetry-collection · 1929

Poetry (10)
  1. Twin in the Clouds

    poetry-collection · 1914

  2. Over the Barriers

    poetry-collection · 1917

  3. My Sister—Life

    poetry-collection · 1922

  4. Themes and Variations

    poetry-collection · 1923

  5. The Year 1905

    narrative-poem · 1927

  6. Spektorsky

    novel-in-verse · 1931

  7. Second Birth

    poetry-collection · 1932

  8. On Early Trains

    poetry-collection · 1943

  9. Earth's Expanse

    poetry-collection · 1945

  10. When the Weather Clears

    poetry-collection · 1959

Plays (1)
  1. The Blind Beauty

    play · 1969