I'm confused because Jacob said you guys would connect with me and Greg on our Russian literature book club, which we will initiate next month, but then Rebekah said you were going to pick your own book and to hell with us.

We really would prefer to start with Doctor Zhivago because Master and Margarita reads MUCH better after a conditioning of Gogol (the connections, parallels and stylistic similarities are legion). As a result, we came up with a schedule that looked like this:

March 15 - Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
April 15 - Alexander Pushkin, Boris Godunov
May 15 - Viktor Pelevin, Buddha's Little Finger (potentially sci-fi)
June 15 - Fedor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
July 15 - Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
August 15 - Evgeni Zamyatin - We (sci-fi)
September 15 - Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (first half)
October 15 - Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (second half)
November 15 - Nikolai Gogol, The Nose and the Overcoat
December 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Master and Margarita (potentially sci-fi)
January 15, 2011 - Fedor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
February 15, 2011 - Ivan Bunin, Sukhodol

We could move M&M up on the list to coordinate with a book club, but having it as the next book club would preclude having Gogol before it. Maybe there's a happy medium here that would have it as the book club say, in May, with Gogol in April, and have Zhivago as the March book club, with the main club and the Russian book club splitting after May?