Russian MP3 books are very handy for anyone practicing their Russian language skills. Most of the russian audio book sites are in Russian language and may be hard to read. At Kitabe.com web site, click on the category Russian and you will see hundreds of Russian titles.

Recently the Russian president Vladimir Putin has admitted at a press conference, that he listens to audio books. "Audio is a very good form of the literature. It allows listening to audio recording in the car during commute or in other professional work spaces." -- Vladimir Putin, Press conference of the president of the Russian Federation for the Russian and foreign journalists

Top 10 Russian Audio Book Rentals at Kitabe.com:

1. Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein

2. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

3. Armaged-Dom by Marina Djachenko, Sergej Djachenko

4. Audio Collected Works. Volume 1, 2 by Leo Tolstoy

5. Bargamot and Garaska by Leonid Andreev

6. Childhood by Leo Tolstoy

7. Alice and three captains by Kir Bulychev

8. Deception Point by Dan Brown

9. Butterfly and Basilisk by Yuli Burkin

10. Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy

Russian Literature

The nineteenth century was the golden age of the Russian literature, its giants Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy towering above all. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is the master of the psychological novel. Dostoevsky’s great works Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), The Devils (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880) are widely regarded as pinnacles of the novelist's art. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is one of the giants of European Literature. His great novel War and Peace (1863-9) is a masterpiece of subtle character analysis combined with a panoramic view of Russian upper-class society during the period of the Napoleonic wars.

Less celebrated but still an important Russian writer of the day was Ivan Turgenev. His best known and politically most interesting novel is Fathers and Sons. Other widely known poets & novelists are Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Leskov, Saltykov-Shchedrin and Goncharov.