Efrén del Valle

20 books

Beautiful Things by Hunter Biden

Beautiful Things

Hunter Biden

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis by Catherine Bailey

A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis

Catherine Bailey

480 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional medium-paced
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

The Daughter of Time

Inspector Alan Grant #5

Josephine Tey

208 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

fiction crime mystery informative mysterious medium-paced
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Niall Ferguson

416 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative slow-paced
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See

Dreams of Joy

Shanghai Girls #2

Lisa See

354 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction historical emotional sad medium-paced
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

The Princeton History of the Ancient World

Kyle Harper

440 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction health history nature science informative slow-paced
The Force by Don Winslow

The Force

Don Winslow

496 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Walter Scheidel

528 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin

In a House of Lies

Inspector Rebus #22

Ian Rankin

370 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction crime mystery mysterious tense medium-paced
The Last Stalinist: The Life of Santiago Carrillo by Paul Preston

The Last Stalinist: The Life of Santiago Carrillo

Paul Preston

448 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced