Giovanni Ferrara degli Uberti

12 books

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia

John Dickie

370 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative medium-paced
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy

276 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

nonfiction essays history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor

The Ethics of Authenticity

Charles Taylor

152 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler

Joshua Then and Now

Mordecai Richler

448 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction literary emotional funny reflective slow-paced
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

540 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Modern Italy: A Political History by Denis Mack Smith

Modern Italy: A Political History

Denis Mack Smith

522 pages • first pub 1957 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

Penguin History of Europe #8

Ian Kershaw

592 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman by Thekla Clark

Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman

Thekla Clark

140 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography reflective medium-paced
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Young Stalin

Joseph Stalin #1

Simon Sebag Montefiore

397 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative tense medium-paced
Cocksure by Mordecai Richler

Cocksure

Mordecai Richler

224 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

fiction literary funny reflective fast-paced