I don't know about no top 10 or nothin' but one good start for someone such as yourself would be the incredible "MIDNIGHT IN SICILY" by Peter Robb, published 1996 by Vintage/Random House. This book is the real deal. Robb is an Australian journalist who lived in Sicily for most of the 80s and early 90s, and the book starkly depicts both the historical context and the modern plague of murder which has drenched this island in blood. The MaxiTrial, The Corleonese and Toto Riina's brutal reign, the infamous assassinations of Justices Falcone and Borsellino, Charlie Lucky's exile, and exquisite mouthwatering descriptions of mezzogiorno cuisine are all here. The sly fox himself Giulio Andreotti, The Don of Italian politics, hands drenched in blood calling all the shots. His personal motto? (see below)