How to know who you really are : Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy (or : don't throw yourself under a train)
How to face up to whatever life throws at you : Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (or : don't leave your wife when she's pregnant)
How to be optimistic in the face of despair : Requiem by Anna Akhmatova (or : don't wear tight shoes on prison visits)
How to survive unrequited love : A month in the country by Ivan Turgenev (or : don't fall in love with your best friend's wife)
How to not to be your own worst enemy : Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (or : don't kill your best frind in a duel)
How to overcome inner conflict : Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (or : don't kill old ladies for money)
How to live with the feeling that the grass is always greener : Three sisters by Anton Chekhov (or : don't keep going on about Moscow)
How to keep going when things go wrong : One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (or : don't forget to take your spoon to prison with you)
How to have a sense of humour about life : The master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (or : don't get run over by a train after talking to Satan)
How to avoid hypocrisy : Dead souls by Nikolai Gogol (or : don't buy non-existent peasants as part of a get-rich-quick scheme)
How to know what matters in life : War and peace by Lev Tolstoy (or : don't try to kill Napoleon).
