Books
- Forbidden Laughter (Nedozvolennyi smekh) (ed. & compl.)
- (Los Angeles: Almanac Press, 1978, 1980) ISBN 0-89626-045-3
- A compilation of Soviet-era political humor in Russian with English translation.
- Peshchera neozhidannostei (The Fun House)
(New York: Possev-USA) ISBN 0-911971-03-3
- A short story collection in Russian. Introduction by Vassily Aksyonov.
- Techniques of Satire: The Case of Saltykov-Shchedrin.
- (New York-Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994) ISBN 3-11-012624-9.
- A study of comic devices used by satirists in general and the great 19th century satirist in particular.
- Poterialsia mal'chik (The Lost Boy)
(Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1993) ISBN 5-239-01632-5.
- A short story collection in Russian. Introduction by Lev Anninsky.
- Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor.
- (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000) ISBN 0-312-22129-0
- A sociological study that sheds light on Russian popular culture and the nature of sexual humor everywhere.
- Taking Penguins to the Movies: Ethnic Humor in Russia
- (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999) ISBN 0-8143-2327-8
- A sociological study that sheds light on Russian popular culture and ethnic humor in other countries.
- Russkie poety XIX veka (Russian Poets of the Nineteenth Century) (ed. & compl.)
- (Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage Publishers, 1999) ISBN 1-55779-119-8
- Russkie poety XX veka (Russian Poets of the Twentieth Century) (ed. & compl.)
- (Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage Publishers, 2000) ISBN 1-55779-128-7
- The Supervisor of the Sea and Other Stories
- (Riverside, CA: Xenos Books, 2003) ISBN 1-879378-47-7
- e-book edition, 2011; ASIN B004VWX6NG
- A short story collection in English
- Kto ty takoi: Odessa Memoir 1945-53
- (in Russian) (Baltimore: Seagull Press, 2003) ISBN 0-9714963-4-X
- Wesele w Brighton Beach i inne opowidania
- (in Polish) (Warsaw: Biblioteka Midrasza, 2008) ISBN 978-83-926515-0-5
- Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir
- (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, September 2008) ISBN 978-0-520-25446-6
- Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, April 2010) ISBN 978-0-8101-2664-0
- Na kudykinu goru (From Here to Wherever)
(Baltimore, MD: Seagull Press, November 2012) ISBN 9780982911365
- A novel on Jewish emigration from Russia.
- Chekhov na Brighton Beach (Chekhov in Brighton Beach) - forthcoming
A short story collection
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