The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky

8 best books like The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky (Maxim Gorky): Parasyte, Volume 1, The Complete Short Novels, The Collected Stories, Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Faithful Ruslan, Happy!, The Third Wave

Parasyte, Volume 1

Author	Hitoshi Iwaaki
ISBN	0345496248

SILENT INVASION

They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume...

The Complete Short Novels

Author

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

The...

The Collected Stories

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	0375405496

Pushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted,...

Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste

Author	Bea Johnson
ISBN	1451697686

Part inspirational story of Bea Johnson (the “Priestess of Waste-Free Living”) and how she transformed her family’s life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing one liter per year; part practical, step-by-step guide that gives readers tools and tips to diminish their footprint...

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Author	Vladimir Voinovich
ISBN	0810112434

Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a peasant...

Faithful Ruslan

Author	Georgi Vladimov
ISBN	1935554670

Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.” (The Guardian)

Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps...

Happy!

Author	Grant Morrison
ISBN	1607066777

Meet Nick Sax, a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual murder, soulless sex, eczema, and betrayal. With a hit gone wrong, a bullet in his side, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick and his world...

The Third Wave

Author	Alvin Toffler
ISBN	0688035973

The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler
The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler. It is the sequel to Future Shock, published in 1970, and the second in what was originally likely meant to be a trilogy that was continued with Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st...