Chris MacDonnell

21 books

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

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Simon Baker

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

447 pages | first published 2006

Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ben Hutchinson

Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Ben Hutchinson

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced

139 pages | first published 2018

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

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced

304 pages

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

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious fast-paced

304 pages | first published 2019

Murder and the Movies by David Thomson

Murder and the Movies

David Thomson

nonfiction history dark slow-paced

240 pages | first published 2020

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason by William Davies

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

William Davies

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

272 pages | first published 2018

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

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced

366 pages | first published 2019

The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek

The Sublime Object of Ideology

Essential Zizek

Slavoj Zizek

nonfiction history philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

272 pages

This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas

This Poison Will Remain

Commissaire Adamsberg #11

Fred Vargas with Siân Reynolds (Translator)

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious medium-paced

416 pages | first published 2017

War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II by Peter Padfield

War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II

Peter Padfield

nonfiction history emotional slow-paced

560 pages | first published 1995