Chris MacDonnell

28 books

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Simon Baker

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Simon Baker

447 pages • paperback • 2006

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ben Hutchinson

Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions #556

Ben Hutchinson

139 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity by James Valliant

Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity

James Valliant

398 pages • 1915

nonfiction history religion informative medium-paced
Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America by Andrew Gumbel

Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America

Andrew Gumbel

304 pages • paperback

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Last Job: The Bad Grandpas and the Hatton Garden Heist by Dan Bilefsky

The Last Job: The Bad Grandpas and the Hatton Garden Heist

Dan Bilefsky

304 pages • 2019

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious fast-paced
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I by Thomas Malory

Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I

Thomas Malory

518 pages • paperback • 1485

fiction classics fantasy historical adventurous medium-paced
Murder and the Movies by David Thomson

Murder and the Movies

David Thomson

240 pages • 2020

nonfiction history dark slow-paced
The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm

The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm

400 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history philosophy reference religion science informative reflective medium-paced
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason by William Davies

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

William Davies

272 pages • 2018

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Pure, White and Deadly: The new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes and other killers by John Yudkin

Pure, White and Deadly: The new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes and other killers

John Yudkin

208 pages • paperback • 1972

nonfiction health science informative slow-paced