Gary Shteyngart Books in Order

Russian immigrant Vladimir Girshkin escapes his dreary New York clerical job through an eccentric war veteran's proposition. His journey to an Eastern European expatriate haven draws him into a dubious money-making scheme with a Russian gangster.

Unable to return to America, wealthy Russian Misha Vainberg travels to oil-rich Absurdistan seeking a foreign passport. Civil war interrupts his plans, and an unexpected government appointment entangles him in the country's corruption and competing factions.

In a near-future America strained by debt, surveillance, and political collapse, book-loving Lenny Abramov falls for Eunice Park. Their uneven romance unfolds amid a culture obsessed with youth, social status, technology, and the avoidance of mortality.

Gary Shteyngart recalls growing up between his Soviet family’s expectations and his new American surroundings. School, first love and the search for belonging trace the path from immigrant misfit to a writer finding his own voice.

Facing an SEC investigation and family distress, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen abandons New York for a Greyhound journey toward his college sweetheart. His wife Seema remains behind, confronting the costs of their carefully constructed wealthy life.

Eight people gather at an upstate New York country house to shelter from the pandemic. Over six months, romances and rivalries reshape their connections, while old betrayals and a movie star's arrival disturb their uneasy refuge.

Ten-year-old Vera watches her blended family unravel as an unstable America sharpens divisions around them. Wanting a friend, her parents to stay together and answers from her birth mother, she searches for a way to preserve love.

Gary Shteyngart searches for pleasure in journeys, food, clothes, animals and ordinary moments at home. These personal essays explore how paying attention to the world’s absurdities and small delights can make daily life richer.