Chris MacDonnell

24 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 • first pub 2006 (editions)

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

Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Ben Hutchinson

139 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

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 • first pub 1915 (editions)

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 • missing pub info (editions)

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 • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious fast-paced
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

45 pages • first pub 1820 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious medium-paced
Murder and the Movies by David Thomson

Murder and the Movies

David Thomson

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history dark slow-paced
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason by William Davies

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

William Davies

272 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern by Robert Morrison

The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern

Robert Morrison

366 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas

This Poison Will Remain

Commissaire Adamsberg #11

Fred Vargas

416 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious medium-paced