1918

6 best books like 1918 (Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy): Our Man in Havana, The Dark Room, And Quiet Flows the Don, Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible, Tortilla Flat

Our Man in Havana
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0140184937
Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,'...
The Dark Room
AuthorMinette Walters
ISBN0307277097
In this acclaimed psychological mystery, Jinx Kingsley, a prominent photographer and millionaire’s daughter, wakes up in an exclusive hospital suffering from amnesia. Not only can she not remember the car accident that caused her memory loss, but she doesn’t remember that her impending...
AuthorMikhail Sholokhov
ISBN0460878905
And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 & published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished...
Tales of Ordinary Madness
AuthorCharles Bukowski
ISBN0872861554
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski...
The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible
AuthorCatherine Burns
ISBN1101904429
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth--and featuring contributions from Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, Wang Ping, and more--a new collection of unforgettable true stories about finding the...
Tortilla Flat
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN0582461502
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." -- New York Herald Tribune

Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above the...
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