Chelkash and Other Stories

10 best books like Chelkash and Other Stories (Maxim Gorky): Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Tao Te Ching, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Will Haunt You, The Double, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Great Granny Webster, The Dhammapada, The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	0553351397

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be...

Tao Te Ching

Author	Lao Tzu
ISBN	0679724346

The Wisest Book Ever Written...
Complete on Audio...The Entire 81 Chapters (and Introduction to) Stephen Mitchell's exquisite new tradition of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way -- the classic manual on the art of living revered as one of the wonders of the world. Dating from the 6th century...

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Author	Pu Songling
ISBN	0140447407

The title, and the fact that this is a Penguin classic, attracted me. I really, really enjoyed this read. The stories were quite short, some only a paragraph in length, and the longest ones being perhaps 4-5 pages. And they were strange indeed, strange is definitely an understatement. They were very...

Will Haunt You

Author	Brian Kirk
ISBN	1787581365

You don't read the book. It reads you.

Rumors of a deadly book have been floating around the dark corners of the deep web. A disturbing tale about a mysterious figure who preys on those who read the book and subjects them to a world of personalized terror. Jesse Wheeler--former guitarist of the...

The Double

Author	José Saramago
ISBN	0151010404

Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night,...

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

Author

David Graeber

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled...

Great Granny Webster

Author	Caroline Blackwood
ISBN	1590170075

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the...

The Dhammapada

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0938077872

The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhammapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya,...

The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon

Author	Aesop
ISBN	0141398434

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'

Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar.

Introducing Little Black Classics:...

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Author

Mircea Eliade

In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive...