Read-alikes and related books

Books like A Russian Journal

If you loved A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Journalism, Letters, Russia, and Essays & Travelogues.

Journalism Letters Russia Essays & Travelogues Cultural & Social Anthropology Modern Essays Sociology Literary Criticism 20th Century Literary Collections American Language Arts & Disciplines Travel Europe Social Science History Fiction

Top related books to A Russian Journal

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of A Russian Journal.

Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text

Catherine Mary McLoughlin

Themes: Journalism • Letters • Cultural & Social

Hell’s Angels

Hunter S. Thompson

Themes: Journalism • Essays & Travelogues • Cultural & Social

Strong Opinions

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Themes: Journalism • Letters • Modern

The Best American Travel Writing 2021

Padma Lakshmi

Themes: Journalism • Letters • Essays & Travelogues

Warsaw

David Crowley

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu

Themes: Letters • Essays & Travelogues • Cultural & Social

The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature

R. Nischik

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • Modern

Hindoo Holiday An Indian Journal

J. R. Ackerley

Themes: Letters • Essays & Travelogues • Cultural & Social

America Day by Day

Simone De Beauvoir

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#10

Lost at Sea The Jon Ronson Mysteries

Jon Ronson

Themes: Journalism • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#11

Our Women on the Ground Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Zahra Hankir

Themes: Journalism • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#12

Japanese Inn A Reconstruction of the Past

Oliver Statler

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#13

Diana, A Cultural History Gender, Race, Nation and the People’s Princess

J. Davies

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • Modern

#14

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

James Fitzjames Stephen

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • Modern

#15

Peter the Great Through British Eyes Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar Since 1698

Anthony Cross

Themes: Russia • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#16

The English A Field Guide

Matt Rudd

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#17

Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination

N. Grace

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • Modern

#18

Debatable Land Dispatches from the Borders

Rory Stewart

Themes: Journalism • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#19

State by State A Panoramic Portrait of America

Matt Weiland

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Anthropology • Essays

#20

Quotation Marks

Marjorie B. Garber

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • Essays

#21

Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star Critical Essays

I. López-Calvo

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • Modern

#22

The Mysteries of Paris and London

Richard Maxwell

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • Modern

#23

Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism Legacies of French Colonialism

Alec G. Hargreaves

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • Modern

#24

Words at Work in Vanity Fair Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914–1930

M. Banta

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • Modern

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck — spanning Journalism, Letters, Russia and featuring authors such as Catherine Mary McLoughlin, Hunter S. Thompson, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Padma Lakshmi, and others.