Anna Karenina
Russian novelist, 1828–1910.
Anna Karenina is an 1875 novel by Leo Tolstoy, translated from Russian.
On 7 of the 10 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- First published
- Serialised 1875–77
- Length
- 864 pages (UK paperback)
- Original language
- Translated from Russian
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Love story, Psychological
Is Anna Karenina worth reading?
7 of the 10 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 3 | See the list |
| Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian Book Clubs, 2002) | Listed | See the list |
| Oprah's Book Club picks (Oprah's Book Club, 1996-) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 11 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 6 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 54 | See the list |
Best edition of Anna Karenina
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2003), 864 pages, translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2003)
- Pages
- 864
- Translator
- Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear
- ISBN
- 9780140449174
How critics and readers rate Anna Karenina
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 100% of the points available on critics' lists, against 49% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Anna Karenina
If you liked Anna Karenina, try War and Peace, Middlemarch or Madame Bovary.
