War in Myth (2007). A collection of Zygar's essays about his work in hotspots like Iraq, Lebanon, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc.
Gazprom. New Russian Weapon (2008), together with
Valery Panyushkin. An investigation of the most mighty Russian state-owned corporations. ''All the Kremlin's Men'' (2015). The book became the most important Russian non-fiction about the metamorphoses of Putin and his inner circle. The book was the #1 bestseller in Russia for 4 months. In it, Zygar traces Vladimir Putin's ascent to become the most powerful Russian president in decades, and illustrates the grip that extreme paranoia has on Moscow's power elite. It took Zygar seven years to write, interviewing current and former associates of the Russian president. In his book, Zygar battles against the idealization of Putin as a savvy and ingenious puppet-master; both the demonic version put forth by the West, and the idolizing version propagated by Russia's official state media. Zygar is far from adopting the insulted tone of the Russian establishment in his assessment. He is more interested in tracing Russian leadership's slide into the aggressive worldview that has eventually led to the war in Eastern Ukraine and military intervention in Syria. The book became a huge event in Ukraine. It claims that annexation of Crimea was planned by the Kremlin in December 2013. Nobel prize winner
Svetlana Alexievich praised the book saying that "This is the first consistent description of everything that has happened over the last 20 years that I have read. It is a very serious study and an opportunity to learn from first hand reports". John Kampfner of
The Guardian called the book "one of the most compelling" accounts written about Vladimir Putin.
The Sydney Morning Herald reviewed the book as a "fascinating, in-depth and authoritative study of Russian politics". The book was also published in Sweden, Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary. ''All the Kremlin's Men'' was published in English in 2016. Zygar's next book, '''', was released both in Russian and in English on the centenary of the
Russian revolution. It’s a captivating story about the Russian society a hundred years ago, in the years leading up to the revolution, and the intertwined fates of
Tolstoy,
Diaghilev,
Rasputin,
Stolypin and other protagonists of the era. The way the story is told allows readers to recognize today's realities in almost every character or event: the century-old country looks like a reflection of modern Russia. Emily Tamkin of
Foreign Policy described the book as "an immensely compelling work that transports the reader to the streets of St. Petersburg to see the early 20th century unfold for herself".
The Empire Must Die is listed among the Best Non-Fiction works of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews, characterised as a "a vivid, character-driven reconstruction of the period leading up to the overthrow of the
Romanovs". In 2023, Zygar next published, ''War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine'' with
Simon & Schuster. Nobel Peace Prize winner
Dmitry Muratov wrote on the book: "Zygar has invented a new genre. If Tolstoy's story is a wide river, Proust's is a slow river, Zygar’s is a chase. Alas, under President Putin's rule, no one would dare to publish this terrific book in Russia. So it's easy to tell if the regime has changed—if Zygar is openly on sale in Moscow shops, then yes." In
The Guardian review,
Luke Harding notes that, "Zygar rips apart the claim that Russia and Ukraine were co-founded...(and that)...Zygar has written a fine book. And yet he is unlikely to find the forgiveness he craves, so long as Russia denies Ukraine’s basic right to exist." The book was also featured on
The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 list. == Future History ==