You're exploring reads like
by Mario Puzo · 2004
The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for The Godfather is "For Anthony Cleri". The novel's epigraph is by the French author Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955 and includes the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood. ---------- Also contained in: - [The Godfather / The Fortunate Pilgrim](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7920005W) - [The Godfather / The Last Don](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1673242W)
If you came for what's next
Books similar to The Godfather - Book 1
Gritty, dark, epic: that's the feel these 70 books share, brought together by readers one by one.
Closest matches
Same genre, same feel
Further afield
Other genres, same feel
Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter · 2017
Shared moods: Gritty · Dark · Epic · Tense
Other stacks with this book
1 reader stacked it
Still hunting?
Open a list and let readers add books like this
Start an open stack — other readers vote books in, and you get a living shelf of recommendations instead of one more list.
Open a list with this bookMood tags