Masha Gessen

27 books

Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene by Masha Gessen

Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene

Masha Gessen

321 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir science challenging medium-paced
Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace by Masha Gessen

Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace

Masha Gessen

384 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Framtiden är Historia: det totalitära Rysslands återkomst by Masha Gessen

Framtiden är Historia: det totalitära Rysslands återkomst

Masha Gessen

549 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging dark tense slow-paced
Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories by Masha Gessen, Joseph Huff-Hannon

Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories

Masha Gessen, Joseph Huff-Hannon

224 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ romance reflective tense slow-paced
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Masha Gessen

342 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography politics informative tense slow-paced
Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia by Masha Gessen

Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia

Masha Gessen

176 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
Perfect Rigour: A Genius And The Mathematical Breakthrough Of The Century by Masha Gessen

Perfect Rigour: A Genius And The Mathematical Breakthrough Of The Century

Masha Gessen

256 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
Putinas. Žmogus be veido. by Masha Gessen

Putinas. Žmogus be veido.

Masha Gessen

304 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark medium-paced
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen

Surviving Autocracy

Masha Gessen

270 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays history politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain by Durs Grünbein, Mircea Cărtărescu, Paul Wilson, Muharem Bazdulj, Stefan Heym, Irakli Josebashvili, Peter Schneider, Zbigniew Herbert, Milan Kundera, Péter Esterházy, Eugen Jebeleanu, Dorota Masłowska, Maxim Trudolyubov, Dan Sociu, Wladimir Kaminer, Judith Sollosy, Mihály Kornis, Dmitri Savitski, Paweł Huelle, Ryszard Kapuściński, David Zábranský, Masha Gessen, Andrzej Stasiuk, Keith Gessen, Uwe Tellkamp, Victor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, Dubravka Ugrešić, Christhard Läpple, Annett Groschner, Words Without Borders, Stanislav Komárek, Matthew Zapruder

The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain

Durs Grünbein, Mircea Cărtărescu, Paul Wilson, Muharem Bazdulj, Stefan Heym, Irakli Josebashvili, Peter Schneider, Zbigniew Herbert, Milan Kundera, Péter Esterházy, Eugen Jebeleanu, Dorota Masłowska, Maxim Trudolyubov, Dan Sociu, Wladimir Kaminer, Judith Sollosy, Mihály Kornis, Dmitri Savitski, Paweł Huelle, Ryszard Kapuściński, David Zábranský, Masha Gessen, Andrzej Stasiuk, Keith Gessen, Uwe Tellkamp, Victor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, Dubravka Ugrešić, Christhard Läpple, Annett Groschner, Words Without Borders, Stanislav Komárek, Matthew Zapruder

231 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry reflective medium-paced