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McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers by Misha Glenny

McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers

Misha Glenny

432 pages • 2008 • 14 editions

nonfiction crime history true crime dark informative medium-paced
5.0 nigellicus's review
Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, Volume 1 by Jonathan Sumption

The Hundred Years War #1

Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, Volume 1

Jonathan Sumption

672 pages • 1990 • 3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Ross King

192 pages • 2000 • 9 editions

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
5.0 nigellicus's review
The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy by Frances Stonor Saunders

The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy

Frances Stonor Saunders

416 pages • 2004 • 6 editions

nonfiction biography history informative fast-paced
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

Alison Weir

496 pages • 1999 • 22 editions

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
5.0 nigellicus's review
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement by Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time #1-3

A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

Anthony Powell

732 pages • 1955 • 7 editions

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
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Slayground by Richard Stark

Parker #14

Slayground

Richard Stark

192 pages • 1971 • 5 editions

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious tense fast-paced
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Dracula Cha Cha Cha by Kim Newman

Anno Dracula #3

Dracula Cha Cha Cha

Kim Newman

480 pages • 1998 • 13 editions

fiction fantasy horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
5.0 nigellicus's review
Eric Ambler Box Set 1: The Night-Comers, The Levanter, Judgment on Deltchev by Eric Ambler

Eric Ambler Box Set 1: The Night-Comers, The Levanter, Judgment on Deltchev

Eric Ambler

618 pages • 2015 • 2 editions

fiction thriller informative mysterious reflective medium-paced
5.0 nigellicus's review
The Getaway by Jim Thompson

The Getaway

Jim Thompson

224 pages • 1958 • 13 editions

fiction crime dark mysterious tense fast-paced
5.0 nigellicus's review