Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia
8 best books like Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia (Suzanne Massie): Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, March: Book Three, March: Book Two, All the King's Men, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Enemies: A Love Story, Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 0143119788 |
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart.
It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed...
| Author | John Lewis |
| ISBN | 1603094024 |
It was the evening before the inauguration, and I was looking for something to read, something that would fortify me against the dark rhetoric of soon-to-be president Trump. I decided on March 3, the final volume of Congressman John Lewis’ graphic autobiographical account of the civil rights...
| Author | John Lewis |
| ISBN | 1603094008 |
The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare...
| Author | Robert Penn Warren |
| ISBN | 0156004801 |
More than just a classic political novel, Warren’s tale of power and corruption in the Depression-era South is a sustained meditation on the unforeseen consequences of every human act, the vexing connectedness of all people and the possibility—it’s not much of one—of goodness in a sinful...
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
| Author | Orlando Figes |
| ISBN | 0312421958 |
History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations
A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
| Author | Milan Kundera |
| ISBN | 0060932147 |
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0451166639 |
Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives; Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication,...
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 1844133230 |
For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge and fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land and at sea. Yet animals...
