The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin

9 best books like The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (Adam Hochschild): The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal, Darkness at Noon, We Are All Completely Fine, The Third Policeman, The Story of Kullervo, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Dean and Me: A Love Story, Night Hawks: Stories, Agnes

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

Author	David E. Hoffman
ISBN	0385537603

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War

While...

Darkness at Noon

Author	Arthur Koestler
ISBN	0553265954

Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government...

We Are All Completely Fine

Author	Daryl Gregory
ISBN	1616961716

Harrison is the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now he’s in his mid-thirties and spends most of his time not sleeping.

Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by the messages carved upon her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass-murdering...

The Third Policeman

Author

Flann O'Brien

The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of...

The Story of Kullervo

Author	J.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN	0008131376

The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.

Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all...

Thunderstruck & Other Stories

Author	Elizabeth McCracken
ISBN	0385335776

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant’s House—finalist for the National Book Award—comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that have led Elizabeth McCracken’s fiction...

Dean and Me: A Love Story

Author	Jerry Lewis
ISBN	0767920872

They were the unlikeliest of pairs — a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J..

Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and...

Night Hawks: Stories

Author	Charles R. Johnson
ISBN	1501184385

A masterful story collection—thirteen years in the making—from National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, showcasing the incredible range and resonant voice of this American treasure.

This new collection of stories from National Book Award winner Charles Johnson offers an eclectic,...

Agnes

Author	Peter Stamm
ISBN	3716022454

Es ist ein schmales Bändchen, mit dem der Schweizer Autor Peter Stamm sein Debüt als Schriftsteller gibt. Vordergründig erzählt er eine wunderbare Liebesgeschichte zwischen einer amerikanischen Physikstudentin und einem jungen Journalisten, der Nachforschungen zu seinem Buch über Eisenbahnen...