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Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Below are books and a link to audiobooks that provide historical context for the unfolding Russia-Ukraine re-invasion and war. With increased interest on this subject, some books are currently backordered and waiting for publisher reprints. However you can find quite a few of them available now as audiobooks on Libro.fm. See them here.

Thank you to Henrikas Bliudzius for compiling much of this list and sharing it in his LitHub article.

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine By Serhii Plokhy Cover Image

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Paperback)

By Serhii Plokhy
$19.99
ISBN: 9781541675643
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Basic Books - May 25th, 2021
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine By Anne Applebaum Cover Image

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Paperback)

By Anne Applebaum
$19.00
ISBN: 9780804170888
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor - September 4th, 2018
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine By Anna Reid Cover Image

Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine (Paperback)

By Anna Reid
$22.79
ISBN: 9780465055890
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Basic Books - June 9th, 2015
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster By Adam Higginbotham Cover Image

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)

By Adam Higginbotham
$20.99
ISBN: 9781501134630
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster - February 4th, 2020
Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir By Marie Yovanovitch Cover Image

Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Marie Yovanovitch
$30.00
ISBN: 9780358457541
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Mariner Books - March 15th, 2022
Here, Right Matters: An American Story By Alexander Vindman Cover Image

Here, Right Matters: An American Story (Hardcover)

By Alexander Vindman
$26.99
ISBN: 9780063079427
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Harper - August 3rd, 2021
Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster By Kate Brown Cover Image

Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster (Paperback)

By Kate Brown
$17.95
ISBN: 9780393357769
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 17th, 2020
Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) By Serhy Yekelchyk Cover Image

Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Paperback)

By Serhy Yekelchyk
$18.95
ISBN: 9780197532119
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Oxford University Press, USA - October 1st, 2020
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia By Joshua Yaffa Cover Image

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia (Paperback)

By Joshua Yaffa
$18.00
ISBN: 9781524760601
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Crown - May 4th, 2021
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice By Bill Browder Cover Image

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Paperback)

By Bill Browder
$18.99
ISBN: 9781476755748
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 20th, 2015
From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West By Heidi Blake Cover Image

From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West (Paperback)

By Heidi Blake
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316417242
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Mulholland Books - November 24th, 2020
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America By Timothy Snyder Cover Image

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Paperback)

By Timothy Snyder
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525574477
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Crown - April 9th, 2019
Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity By Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Serhii Plokhy (Foreword by) Cover Image

Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity (Paperback)

By Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Serhii Plokhy (Foreword by)
$48.00
ISBN: 9783838213279
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Ibidem Press - September 30th, 2019
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin By Masha Gessen Cover Image

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Paperback)

By Masha Gessen
$18.00
ISBN: 9781594486517
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books - March 5th, 2013
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Surviving Autocracy By Masha Gessen Cover Image

Surviving Autocracy (Paperback)

By Masha Gessen
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593332245
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 1st, 2021
The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia By Masha Gessen Cover Image

The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Paperback)

By Masha Gessen
$18.00
ISBN: 9781594634543
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Published: Riverhead Books - October 2nd, 2018
A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin By Mark Galeotti Cover Image

A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin (Hardcover)

By Mark Galeotti
$27.99
ISBN: 9781335145703
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Hanover Square Press - July 7th, 2020
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe By Serhii Plokhy Cover Image

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Paperback)

By Serhii Plokhy
$19.99
ISBN: 9781541617070
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Basic Books - March 10th, 2020
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West By Catherine Belton Cover Image

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West (Paperback)

By Catherine Belton
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250787323
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Picador - May 3rd, 2022
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine By Tim Judah Cover Image

In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine (Hardcover)

By Tim Judah
$27.00
ISBN: 9780451495471
Availability: Hard to Find - Contact Store for Availability
Published: Tim Duggan Books - October 11th, 2016
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation By Andrew Wilson Cover Image

The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (Paperback)

By Andrew Wilson
$28.74
ISBN: 9780300217254
Availability: Hard to Find - Contact Store for Availability
Published: Yale University Press - November 24th, 2015
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality By Peter Pomerantsev Cover Image

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Paperback)

By Peter Pomerantsev
$16.99
ISBN: 9781541762121
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: PublicAffairs - May 26th, 2020
Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? By Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble Cover Image

Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? (Hardcover)

By Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble
$29.95
ISBN: 9780197611708
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Oxford University Press, USA - September 1st, 2021
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped By Garry Kasparov Cover Image

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped (Paperback)

By Garry Kasparov
$17.99
ISBN: 9781610397193
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Published: PublicAffairs - November 8th, 2016
The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad By Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan Cover Image

The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (Hardcover)

By Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
$30.00
ISBN: 9781541730168
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: PublicAffairs - October 8th, 2019
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet By Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan Cover Image

The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet (Paperback)

By Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
$18.99
ISBN: 9781610399579
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Published: PublicAffairs - August 22nd, 2017
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin By Mikhail Zygar Cover Image

All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin (Paperback)

By Mikhail Zygar
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568588179
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: PublicAffairs - November 7th, 2017
The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia By Mark Galeotti Cover Image

The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (Paperback)

By Mark Galeotti
$18.00
ISBN: 9780300243208
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Published: Yale University Press - May 28th, 2019
The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West By Edward Lucas Cover Image

The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West (Paperback)

By Edward Lucas
$22.99
ISBN: 9781137280039
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(Please note: This book cannot be returned.)
Published: St. Martin's Griffin - July 29th, 2014
How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict By Nina Jankowicz Cover Image

How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict (Paperback)

By Nina Jankowicz
$18.95
ISBN: 9780755642083
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Published: I. B. Tauris & Company - September 23rd, 2021
The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front By Aliide Naylor Cover Image

The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front (Hardcover)

By Aliide Naylor
$40.00
ISBN: 9781788312523
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Published: I. B. Tauris & Company - January 23rd, 2020
A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West By Luke Harding Cover Image

A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West (Paperback)

By Luke Harding
$18.00
ISBN: 9781101973998
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Published: Vintage - January 24th, 2017
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past By Shaun Walker Cover Image

The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past (Paperback)

By Shaun Walker
$18.95
ISBN: 9780190058845
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Oxford University Press, USA - October 1st, 2019
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin By Timothy Snyder Cover Image

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Paperback)

By Timothy Snyder
$22.99
ISBN: 9781541600065
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Published: Basic Books - April 26th, 2022
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West By Catherine Belton Cover Image

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West (Paperback)

By Catherine Belton
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250787323
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Published: Picador - May 3rd, 2022
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House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia By Craig Unger Cover Image

House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (Paperback)

By Craig Unger
$18.00
ISBN: 9781524743512
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Published: Dutton - September 3rd, 2019
American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery By Craig Unger Cover Image

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (Paperback)

By Craig Unger
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593182543
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Published: Dutton - January 18th, 2022
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers By Andy Greenberg Cover Image

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers (Paperback)

By Andy Greenberg
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525564638
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Published: Anchor - October 20th, 2020