Mario Puzo

4 summariesThriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery

Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.

Books by Mario Puzo

4 books available

The Godfather
Mario Puzo
4.4 (335k) average on GoodreadsThriller
Beneath the veneer of legitimate business, the Corleone family navigates a brutal world of loyalty, betrayal, and bloody power struggles to protect their empire and legacy.
The Last Don
Mario Puzo
3.8 (16k) average on GoodreadsThriller
Don Clericuzio tries to make his family legitimate, but a secret starts a war between two cousins, threatening his legacy in Hollywood, casinos, and the mob.
Omerta
Mario Puzo
3.7 (14k) average on GoodreadsThriller
Orphaned and adopted into the Aprile crime family, Astorre Viola, the seemingly unassuming horseman, must embrace his carefully cultivated destiny as the last Don's true heir amidst a violent power vacuum and betrayals from within and without.
The Family
Mario Puzo
3.8 (11k) average on GoodreadsThriller
In Renaissance Rome, the ambitious Borgia family, led by Pope Alexander VI, manipulates power, faith, and family to control 15th-century Italy amidst art, war, and scandal.