I want to start reading up on the mafia. I am very interested in it. What books should I start off with to get a good grip on the subject? I was thinking of starting with Italian gangsters, then reading about prohibition and Jewish gangsters, then eventually Irish gangsters. Is this a good reading plan:

- Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires (Selwyn Raab)

- The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and The Birth of the American Mafia (Mike Dash)

- Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (John Dickie)

- The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster (Rose Keefe)

- Mr. Capone (Robert J Schoenberg)/Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone (John Kobler) [Which one is better? Or another Capone book?]

- [Prohibition books-- maybe this?] Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation (Mark Mappen)

- Eventually some T.J. English books



Any advice is welcome on what books (or even documentaries to watch on Netflix) to widen my gangster expertise.