CITY · UKRAINEBooks set in Kyiv
50.450, 30.523
8 books · 6 authors · 1925–2025
8 books here
Most-set authors
Andrey Kurkov (2) · Oksana Zabuzhko (2) · Maria Reva (1) · Valerian Pidmohylny (1) · Kate Quinn (1) · Mikhail Bulgakov (1)
Genres
literary fiction (5)
Books set here
Set in Kyiv (7)
Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov
Post-Soviet Kyiv, Viktor's world
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
Oksana Zabuzhko
narrator poet reflects on Ukrainian identity
Museum of Abandoned Secrets
Oksana Zabuzhko
contemporary Kyiv narrative
The City
Valerian Pidmohylny
1920s Kyiv, young man's urban coming-of-age
The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn
Kyiv, Ukraine in 1937 where bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko lives before Hitler's invasion sends her to the fro
The Silver Bone
Andrey Kurkov
1919 Kyiv under Bolshevik occupation; setting for the entire Kyiv Mysteries series
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
Turbin family home in civil war Kiev
