Ralph Lister

109 books

Black Vodka: Ten Stories by Deborah Levy

Black Vodka: Ten Stories

Deborah Levy

125 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary short stories reflective fast-paced
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography health history science dark informative reflective medium-paced
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey

The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

Richard Mabey

384 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective slow-paced
Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd

Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life

Ackroyd's Brief Lives #6

Peter Ackroyd

304 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative fast-paced
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

Serhii Plokhy

404 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan

Cirque Du Freak

Cirque du Freak #1

Darren Shan

192 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror middle grade adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle

The Clockwork Man

E. V. Odle

1923 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous reflective slow-paced
Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding

Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win

Luke Harding

354 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative fast-paced
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson

Deadhouse Gates

Malazan Book of the Fallen #2

Steven Erikson

868 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous challenging dark slow-paced
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze

The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

Adam Tooze

672 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced