Novels and novellas written in Russian:

  • (1926) Mashen'ka (Машенька); English translation: Mary (1970)
  • (1928) Korol' Dama Valet (Король, дама, валет); English translation: King, Queen, Knave (1968)
  • (1930) Zashchita Luzhina (Защита Лужина); English translation: The Luzhin Defense or The Defense (1964)
  • (1930) The Eye (Соглядатай (The Eye)), novella; first publication as a book 1938; English translation: The Eye (1965)
  • (1932) Podvig (Подвиг (Deed)); English translation: Glory (1971)
  • (1933) Kamera Obskura (Камера Обскура); English translations: Camera Obscura (1936), Laughter in the Dark (1938)
  • (1934) Otchayanie (Отчаяние); English translation: Despair (1937, 1965)
  • (1936) Priglasheniye na kazn' (Приглашение на казнь (Invitation to an execution)); English translation: Invitation to a Beheading (1959)
  • (1938) Dar (Дар); English translation: The Gift (1963)
  • Volshebnik (Волшебник); English translation: The Enchanter (1985)

Novels written in English:

  • (1941) The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
  • (1947) Bend Sinister
  • (1955) Lolita, self-translated into Russian (1965) [read in English and Polish only]
  • (1957) Pnin
  • (1962) Pale Fire [well, I tried in two languages but I just cannot finish it]
  • (1969) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle [read in English and Polish, fragments in French]
  • (1972) Transparent Things [English > Polish]
  • (1974) Look at the Harlequins!
  • (2009) The Original of Laura

Short story collections:

  • (1930) Vozvrashchenie Chorba ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
  • (1938) Sogliadatai ("The Eye"). Thirteen short stories, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
  • (1947) Nine Stories
  • (1956) Vesna v Fial'te i drugie rasskazy ("Spring in Fialta and other stories")
  • (1958) Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories (Also reprinted as Spring in Fialta and First Love and Other Stories.)
  • (1966) Nabokov's Quartet
  • (1968) Nabokov's Congeries; reprinted as The Portable Nabokov (1971)
  • (1973) A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
  • (1975) Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
  • (1976) Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
  • (1995) The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (alternative title The Collected Stories) -- complete collection of all short stories

Uncollected short stories:

  • (1948) "Colette". The New Yorker, July 31, 1948
  • (2005) "The Word". The New Yorker, December 6, 2005
  • (2008) "Natasha". The New Yorker, June 9 & 16, 2008

Drama:

  • (1938) Izobretenie Val'sa (The Waltz Invention); English translation The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts (1966)
  • The Tragedy of Mister Morn (2012): English translation of a Russian-language play written 1923–24, publicly read 1924, published in a journal 1997, independently published 2008
  • (1974) Lolita: A Screenplay (Despite the credits given in the earlier film version, this was not used.)
  • (1984) The Man from the USSR and Other Plays

Poetry:

  • (1916) Stikhi ("Poems"). Sixty-eight poems in Russian. [went through it but it doesn't really count as reading, right?]
  • (1918) Al'manakh: Dva Puti (An Almanac: Two Paths"). Twelve poems by Nabokov and eight by Andrei Balashov, in Russian.
  • (1922) Grozd ("The Cluster"). Thirty-six poems in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
  • (1923) Gornii Put' ("The Empyrean Path"). One hundred and twenty-eight poems in Russian, by "Vl. Sirin".
  • (1929) Vozvrashchenie Chorba ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
  • (1952) Stikhotvoreniia 1929–1951 ("Poems 1929–1951") Fifteen poems in Russian.
  • (1959) Poems. The contents were later incorporated within Poems and Problems.
  • (1969) Poems and Problems (a collection of poetry and chess problems). The contents were later incorporated within Selected Poems.
  • (1979) Stikhi ("Poems"). Two hundred and twenty-two poems in Russian.
  • (2012) Selected Poems
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