Best Of Investigative Journalism - Nonfiction

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 4.41 avg rating — 276,397 ratings
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement 4.34 avg rating — 43,160 ratings
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All the President’s Men
All the President’s Men 4.18 avg rating — 56,979 ratings
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators 4.40 avg rating — 101,067 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,459 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 4.04 avg rating — 44,512 ratings
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron 4.22 avg rating — 27,096 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,447 ratings
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco 4.28 avg rating — 42,422 ratings
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Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker 4.15 avg rating — 109,211 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 426,113 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,113 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by: Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,194 ratings
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan 4.11 avg rating — 13,996 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,975 ratings
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Indian Country
Indian Country 4.10 avg rating — 171 ratings
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier 4.37 avg rating — 6,249 ratings
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic 4.23 avg rating — 31,642 ratings
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When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back
When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating — 51,944 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 3.75 avg rating — 206,251 ratings
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,812 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti 4.14 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy
The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy 3.64 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Black Like Me
Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating — 69,184 ratings
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era 4.43 avg rating — 2,081 ratings
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Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA
Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA 3.97 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti 4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China 3.93 avg rating — 9,486 ratings
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All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis 4.04 avg rating — 7,657 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,264 ratings
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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe 3.75 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt 4.14 avg rating — 88,888 ratings
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This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information 4.01 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print (Nation Books)
Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print (Nation Books) 3.62 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing 4.44 avg rating — 7,041 ratings
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Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches 4.25 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town 4.12 avg rating — 57,735 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating — 26,734 ratings
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Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned 4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Death in Mud Lick: A True Story of Corporate Pill Pushers in Small Town America
Death in Mud Lick: A True Story of Corporate Pill Pushers in Small Town America
by: Eric Eyre
4.07 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals 4.18 avg rating — 4,570 ratings
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Catching Thunder: The True Story of the World’s Longest Sea Chase
Catching Thunder: The True Story of the World’s Longest Sea Chase 3.92 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Hindutva or Hind Swaraj
Hindutva or Hind Swaraj 3.58 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality 4.28 avg rating — 3,128 ratings
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Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly
Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly 4.23 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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Lethal Doses: The Story Behind "The Godfather Of Fentanyl"
Lethal Doses: The Story Behind "The Godfather Of Fentanyl" 4.65 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite 3.74 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela 4.12 avg rating — 985 ratings
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Reporter: A Memoir
Reporter: A Memoir 4.13 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land 3.79 avg rating — 16,447 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives 4.36 avg rating — 14,156 ratings
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat 3.80 avg rating — 2,501 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti 4.14 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The History of the Standard Oil Company (Unexpurgated Edition)
The History of the Standard Oil Company (Unexpurgated Edition) 3.91 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists
Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists 3.98 avg rating — 402 ratings
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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 3
The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 3 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,326 ratings
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The Best American Crime Reporting 2009
The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 3.92 avg rating — 315 ratings
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The Best of The Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (Nation Books)
The Best of The Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (Nation Books) 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Best Business Crime Writing of The Year
Best Business Crime Writing of The Year 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Parkland: Birth of a Movement 3.97 avg rating — 7,429 ratings
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The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts
The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts 3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend
Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend 4.21 avg rating — 551 ratings
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The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist
The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist 3.71 avg rating — 461 ratings
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League 4.14 avg rating — 28,257 ratings
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Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist
Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist 4.24 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast
Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast 4.09 avg rating — 232 ratings
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American Epidemic: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis
American Epidemic: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis 4.19 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America 4.01 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt 4.17 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
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Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party
Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party 3.94 avg rating — 352 ratings
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The Hunting Ground: The Inside Story of Sexual Assault on American College Campuses
The Hunting Ground: The Inside Story of Sexual Assault on American College Campuses 4.05 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South
The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South 4.03 avg rating — 508 ratings
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State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration 3.75 avg rating — 829 ratings
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A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices from Guantanamo
A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices from Guantanamo 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect 3.85 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
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A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures 3.97 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption
Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption 3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings