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Book Library of Alex Glushenkov

82 books across 3 shelves: Literature and Fiction, Business and Health, History and Biographies. Each entry links to the book page.

Literature and Fiction

  • 1984 — A dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime and its impact on a man's life.
  • War and Peace — A historical novel exploring society, war, and peace during the Napoleonic era.
  • Anna Karenina — A novel exploring themes of love, infidelity, and societal norms in 19th-century Russia.
  • Murder on the Orient Express — A detective novel featuring Hercule Poirot solving a murder mystery on a train.
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — A collection of detective stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
  • The Da Vinci Code — A mystery thriller novel exploring a symbologist's quest for the Holy Grail.
  • Angels and Demons — A thriller novel involving a symbologist's battle against a secret society.
  • The Adventures of Miss Marple — A collection of mystery short stories featuring the detective Miss Marple.
  • The Name of the Rose — A historical mystery novel set in an Italian monastery during the 14th century.
  • The Bronze Horseman — The Bronze Horseman is a historical fiction novel written by Paullina Simons and the first book in the Bronze Horseman Trilogy.
  • Tatiana and Alexander — Tatiana and Alexander is a romance novel written by Paullina Simons and the second book in the Bronze Horseman Trilogy. The novel continues the story of Tatiana Metanova and her husband Alexander Belov.
  • The Summer Garden — The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons is a sweeping post-WWII love story about Tatiana and Alexander as they struggle to build a new life in America, facing the challenges of healing and resilience in the aftermath of war.
  • Gorky Park — A crime novel featuring Arkady Renko, a Moscow police investigator.
  • Child 44 — A thriller novel set in the Stalinist Soviet Union, following a series of gruesome murders.
  • The Man in the High Castle — An alternate history novel depicting a world where the Axis powers won World War II.
  • The Secret Speech — A historical crime novel set in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev era.
  • The Winter Queen — A historical detective novel set in 19th-century Moscow, featuring detective Erast Fandorin.
  • Master and Margarita — A satirical novel intertwining an encounter between the Devil and Soviet society.
  • Doctor Zhivago — A romantic novel set during the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.
  • The Red Tent — A historical fiction novel reimagining the life of Dinah, a character from the Bible.
  • The Gulag Archipelago — A three-volume work exposing the Soviet forced labor camp system.
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — A novella portraying a day in the life of a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp.
  • Eugene Onegin — A novel in verse exploring themes of love, society, and boredom in 19th-century Russia.
  • Ruslan and Ludmila — An epic fairy tale poem, a romantic adventure featuring magical elements.
  • Gone with the Wind — The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — A classic novel depicting the adventures of a young boy in a Mississippi River town.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — A science fiction series following the misadventures of an unwitting human and his alien friend.
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — A mystery novel narrated by a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome.
  • The Twelve Chairs — Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair
  • The Old Genie Hottabych — Volka, a 12-year-old Soviet Young Pioneer, discovers an ancient vessel at the bottom of a river. When he opens it, a genie emerges.
  • In Search of the Castaways — Young Mary Grant and her brother travel to Scotland with their friend Professor Paganel to attempt to convince Lord Glenarvan to help locate Mary's missing father, Captain Grant.
  • Around the World in Eighty Days — Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 day.
  • Karlson on the Roof — When Midge looks out of his window, he hears a faint buzzing sound and sees Karlson, a little fat man, flying slowly past with a propellor on his back. Midge learns that he lives on the roof and has all kinds of interesting ideas and tricks
  • Gulliver`s Travels — This book describes four remarkable journies of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, among them, one to the land of Lilliput, where six-inch-high inhabitants bicker over trivialities; and another to Brobdingnag, a land where giants reduce man to insignificance.
  • The Jungle Book — Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is a boy called Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves.
  • The Wizard of Oz — Journey through the magical world of Oz with Dorothy and her friends
  • The Adventures of Buratino — Buratino is wooden toy who befriends other toys from a theatre owned by evil Karabas-Barabas. He decides to free them with the golden key given by Tortila the Tortoise.
  • The Kite Runner — A novel exploring friendship, betrayal, and redemption set in Afghanistan.
  • The Secret of Secrets — Robert Langdon races through Prague, London, and New York to find his missing scientist partner and her lost manuscript, uncovering a dangerous secret that could redefine human consciousness and challenge centuries of belief.

Business and Health

History and Biographies