Books like Goodfella Tapes (True Crime (Avon Books).) by George Anastasia
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Crime Fiction/Organized Crime
Authors: George Anastasia
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 (0 community ratings)
How are these books recommended?
The books recommended for Goodfella Tapes (True Crime (Avon Books).) by George Anastasia are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.
Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier
for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.
Books similar to Goodfella Tapes (True Crime (Avon Books).) (19 similar books)
In the 1960s, Joseph Valachi, a former Genovese family soldier, broke the Mafia’s code of silence, revealing the organization’s inner workings and leading to the arrest of major crime figures.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Mario Puzo’s The Last Don resurrects his saga of a powerful crime family whose reach extends from the streets of New York to the glittering halls of Hollywood and the casinos of Las Vegas.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A year‑by‑year chronicle of global crime spanning two centuries, profiling infamous killers, organized crime, and violent events from London’s slums to modern terrorist attacks.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Unveiling the Shadows of Organized Crime: The Life of Clyde Smaldone
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Gaspipe tells the full story of Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the former Lucchese family boss whose life of crime—drug trafficking, racketeering, and alliances with Russian mobsters—ended in federal prison after he became an informant.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Mike Dash unravels the rise of Italian organized crime in America, focusing on the pioneering Mafia figure Giuseppe Morello, "The Clutch Hand," and his network in early 20th‑century New York.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
The FBI investigation into a $1 billion drug pipeline, bringing heroin into the U.S. via pizza parlors.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A concise biography of John Gotti, the notorious New York mob boss whose criminal career left a lasting imprint on American organized crime.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
The Mafia Encyclopedia, Third Edition, Carl Sifakis once again provides a fascinating survey of the mob's most influential perpetrators and personalities, including their hangouts and hideaways, their plays for power, their schemes and crimes, and their unique culture and jargon.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Lance draws on three decades of once secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a.k.a. the "Grim Reaper," a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying a crime family as an informant for the FBI.--From publisher's description.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A biography that follows a woman married to a hereditary prince of the Mafia, exploring her life within an Italian American secret society.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Some Other Similar Books
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas PileggiUnderboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Life in the Mafia by George P. Surgeon
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Year-Long Coup by Phil Leonetti
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone
Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D'Arco, the Teflon Don by G. Robert Blakely
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Mafia by John Dickie
Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style by Letizia Paoli
The Last Godfather: Joey Merlino and the Rise of the New Mafia by Gerry O'Brien
The Sopranos: The Definitive History of the Show and the Outlaws Who Inspired It by Matt Zoller Seitz
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra by Phil Leonetti
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone
Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia by G. P. R. James
The Art of Crime: The Search for Meaning in the FBI Files of John Douglas by John Douglas
Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D'Arco, the Teflon Don by Anthony M. DeStefano
Gangster Capitalism: The Rise of the New American Oligarchy by Tim Craig
Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!
Please login to submit books!