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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

I was inspired to nominate this book because last year I read the historical fiction novel The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott. I wouldn't recommend that book for its literary merits (the writing could be improved), but the true stories within it about Boris Pasternak, his lover Olga Ivinskaya (the muse for the character Lara) and Doctor Zhivago were fascinating.

I've wanted to read Doctor Zhivago because it's a famous classic, and it was made into a movie with its own famous reputation. I had no idea that there was such a colorful story behind its banning in Russia. I would like to read the nonfiction book The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn & Petra Couvée published in 2014. It was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.

From Goodreads:

Thanks for the reminder. Another Russian banned novel has been on the MR book club. The Master and the Margarita by Bulgakov. Looking it up, I found another banned book I'm anxious to read, Moscow to the End of the Line by Erofeev. Descriptions are here:

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/14/13381...ed-the-censors

Back to the topic of Dr Zhizago.