SVI Library's Book Picks For 2022

We’ve asked our librarian Halyna Ostapchuk to create a list of the top 10 books acquired at the SVI library this year.

  1. Mondegreen: songs about death and love / Volodymyr Rafeyenko; translated and introduced by Mark Andryczyk. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute Harvard University, [2022]

  2. Survival as victory: Ukrainian women in the Gulag / Oksana Kis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2020

  3. Boikivs'ke vesillia v tekstakh ta svitlynakh. L’viv, 2019

  4. Psalom aviatsii / Serhii Zhadan;foto Marysi M'ianovs'koi. Chernivtsi: Meredian Czernowitz, 2021

  5. In the labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s / Olga Bertelsen. Lanham: Lexington Books, [2022]

  6. The song of the forest: a fairy drama in three acts, with a prologue / Lesia Ukrainka; translated and edited by Patrick John Corness. Edmonton; Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2021

  7. Ukraine's nuclear disarmament: a history / Yuri Kostenko, Svitlana Krasynska, Paul J. D'Anieri, Lidia Wolanskyj, Svitlana Krasynska, Olena Jennings. Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2020

  8. Atoms and ashes: a global history of nuclear disasters / Serhii Plokhy. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]

  9. Podviinyi kapkan: povisti / Andrii Kokotiukha. (book for teens) Kharkiv: Folio, 2017

  10. Terykony pid litakom: opovidannia / Svitlana IEremenko. Kyiv: Ukrains'kyi priorytet, 2016

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