The Top 100 Works of Journalism in the United States in the 20th Century

1.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,447 ratings
2.
Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,321 ratings
3.
The Original Watergate Stories (Kindle Single) (The Washington Post Book 1)
The Original Watergate Stories (Kindle Single) (The Washington Post Book 1) 3.95 avg rating — 287 ratings
4.
The History of the Standard Oil Company (Unexpurgated Edition)
The History of the Standard Oil Company (Unexpurgated Edition) 3.91 avg rating — 246 ratings
5.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,761 ratings
6.
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families 4.32 avg rating — 2,727 ratings
7.
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings
8.
This Is London
This Is London 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
9.
The Shame of the Cities (American Century Series)
The Shame of the Cities (American Century Series) 3.77 avg rating — 93 ratings
10.
Ten Days that Shook the World
Ten Days that Shook the World
by: John Reed
3.94 avg rating — 7,552 ratings
11.
A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial
A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial 4.16 avg rating — 306 ratings
12.
Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches
Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches 4.46 avg rating — 270 ratings
13.
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath 3.80 avg rating — 479 ratings
14.
The Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers 3.97 avg rating — 527 ratings
15.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 3.97 avg rating — 3,972 ratings
16.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,287 ratings
17.
The Best of I.F. Stone
The Best of I.F. Stone 4.25 avg rating — 76 ratings
18.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 78,163 ratings
19.
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History 3.61 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
20.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 4.20 avg rating — 31,566 ratings
21.
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 4.34 avg rating — 6,315 ratings
22.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,424 ratings
23.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
by: Tom Wolfe
3.75 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
24.
Dispatches
Dispatches 4.22 avg rating — 21,217 ratings
25.
The Making of the President 1960
The Making of the President 1960 4.15 avg rating — 7,922 ratings
26.
With the Allies
With the Allies 4.35 avg rating — 37 ratings
27.
I Saw Hitler!
I Saw Hitler! 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
28.
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath 3.94 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
29.
The Road Back to Paris
The Road Back to Paris 4.36 avg rating — 58 ratings
30.
By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades 3.97 avg rating — 732 ratings
31.
The Face of War
The Face of War 4.32 avg rating — 1,231 ratings
32.
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,170 ratings
33.
Up in the Old Hotel
Up in the Old Hotel 4.33 avg rating — 4,191 ratings
34.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,222 ratings
35.
Unsafe at Any Speed
Unsafe at Any Speed 3.69 avg rating — 259 ratings
36.
The Herblock Book
The Herblock Book it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
37.
Nobody Knows My Name
Nobody Knows My Name 4.37 avg rating — 4,613 ratings
38.
Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969
Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969 4.21 avg rating — 173 ratings
39.
Fame and Obscurity: A Book About New York, a Bridge, and Celebrities on the Edge . . .
Fame and Obscurity: A Book About New York, a Bridge, and Celebrities on the Edge . . . 4.41 avg rating — 495 ratings
40.
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings
41.
Paris Journal, 1944-1955
Paris Journal, 1944-1955 4.27 avg rating — 55 ratings
42.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam 4.24 avg rating — 12,399 ratings
43.
The Wayward Pressman
The Wayward Pressman 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
44.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,860 ratings
45.
America Comes of Middle Age: Columns 1950-1962
America Comes of Middle Age: Columns 1950-1962 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
46.
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties 3.99 avg rating — 83 ratings
47.
America: What Went Wrong?
America: What Went Wrong? 4.10 avg rating — 172 ratings
48.
American in Russia
American in Russia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
49.
The John McPhee Reader (John McPhee Reader, #1)
The John McPhee Reader (John McPhee Reader, #1) 4.44 avg rating — 739 ratings
50.
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.26 avg rating — 5,209 ratings
51.
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
What It Takes: The Way to the White House 4.41 avg rating — 3,144 ratings
52.
The Fate of the Earth
The Fate of the Earth 3.93 avg rating — 297 ratings
53.
So This is Depravity
So This is Depravity 4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings
54.
Forward Positions: The War Correspondence of Homer Bigart
Forward Positions: The War Correspondence of Homer Bigart 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
55.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
by: Ben Hecht
3.87 avg rating — 224 ratings
56.
The Stakes of Diplomacy: Civility and the Great War (Westphalia Press Civility Series)
The Stakes of Diplomacy: Civility and the Great War (Westphalia Press Civility Series) 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
57.
Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly: A Report On The Collapse Of Hitler's Thousand Years
Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly: A Report On The Collapse Of Hitler's Thousand Years 4.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
58.
Reporting
Reporting 4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
59.
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America 4.24 avg rating — 781 ratings
60.
The New Yorker Book of War Pieces
The New Yorker Book of War Pieces 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
61.
The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song 4.05 avg rating — 22,792 ratings
62.
Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War
Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War 4.67 avg rating — 67 ratings
63.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Against Interpretation and Other Essays 4.14 avg rating — 10,000 ratings
64.
All the President’s Men
All the President’s Men 4.18 avg rating — 56,979 ratings
65.
Here to Stay: Studies in Human Tenacity
Here to Stay: Studies in Human Tenacity 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
66.
The Earl of Louisiana
The Earl of Louisiana 4.13 avg rating — 316 ratings
67.
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 4.21 avg rating — 4,680 ratings
68.
Praying for Sheetrock
Praying for Sheetrock 3.98 avg rating — 1,602 ratings
69.
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon 4.32 avg rating — 472 ratings
70.
Picture
Picture 4.06 avg rating — 744 ratings
71.
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll 4.04 avg rating — 3,544 ratings
72.
Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America
Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America
by: Leon Dash
4.30 avg rating — 752 ratings
73.
Europeans
Europeans 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
74.
The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany
The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
75.
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,989 ratings
76.
Personal History
Personal History 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
77.
Guys and Dolls and Other Writings
Guys and Dolls and Other Writings 4.19 avg rating — 311 ratings
78.
The Selling of the President: The Classical Account of the Packaging of a Candidate
The Selling of the President: The Classical Account of the Packaging of a Candidate 3.87 avg rating — 949 ratings
79.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 4.13 avg rating — 24,129 ratings