Novyy sbornik prodolzhaet traditsii bestsellerov «Moskva: mesto vstrechi», «V Pitere zhit» i «Ptichiy rynok».«Bez ocheredi» sostavlen iz rasskazov i esse o sovetskoy epohe. Vremya deystviya molodost, mesto odna shestaya chast sushi. Avtory etoy knigi pionervozhatyy Evgeniy Vodolazkin, modnitsa Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Aleksandr Genis, puteshestvuyuschiy po respublikam avtostopom, Marina Stepnova, ochutivshayasya v yuzhnoy skazke Moldavskoy SSR, student Aleksey Varlamov, davshiy prisyagu sluzhit Sovetskomu Soyuzu, Mihail SHishkin, sochinivshiy poemu o dalekom Raytsentre, a takzhe Andrey Filimonov, Olga Velchinskaya, Gleb SHulpyakov, Mihail Butov, Elena Dolgopyat, Dmitriy Zaharov, Vasiliy Snegovskiy, Ivan TSybin, Natalya Zimyanina, Svetlana Mosova, Marina Popova i mnogie drugie...