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Chris MacDonnell

26 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 • paperback • 2006

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 • paperback • 2018

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 • 1915

nonfiction history religion informative medium-paced
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Peter Ackroyd, Thomas Malory

The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend

Peter Ackroyd, Thomas Malory

316 pages • 2010

fiction classics fantasy historical adventurous 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 • paperback

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 • 2019

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious fast-paced
Murder and the Movies by David Thomson

Murder and the Movies

David Thomson

240 pages • 2020

nonfiction history dark slow-paced
The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm

The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm

400 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history philosophy reference religion science informative reflective medium-paced
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason by William Davies

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

William Davies

272 pages • 2018

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 • digital • 2019

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced