Books by Journalists
6. 
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.36 avg rating β 36,106 ratings 
8. 
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating β 55,460 ratings
10. 
Past Deadline: A Blurry Glimpse Into the Aspen Music Beat
by:
John Zelazny
4.88 avg rating β 17 ratings 11. 
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating β 35,953 ratings
12. 
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis β and Themselves 4.15 avg rating β 41,835 ratings
14. 
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
by:
Anderson Cooper
3.98 avg rating β 9,531 ratings 
17. 
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating β 102,339 ratings
18. 
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx 4.26 avg rating β 13,312 ratings
22. 
The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
by:
Mark Twain
3.84 avg rating β 14,583 ratings 23. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating β 119,583 ratings 
25. 
Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six
by:
Matthew A. Cole
4.18 avg rating β 1,004 ratings 26. 
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by:
Neil Sheehan
4.24 avg rating β 12,399 ratings 27. 
30. 
A Russian Journal (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
by:
John Steinbeck
4.09 avg rating β 4,380 ratings 
35. 
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe
by:
Gillian Tett
3.89 avg rating β 3,456 ratings 
39. 
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
by:
Michael Isikoff
3.96 avg rating β 1,596 ratings 40. 
41. 
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?"
by:
P.J. O'Rourke
3.92 avg rating β 3,968 ratings 42. 
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.04 avg rating β 17,101 ratings 43. 
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
by:
HΓ©ctor Tobar
3.92 avg rating β 11,838 ratings 44. 
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
by:
Γ
sne Seierstad
3.85 avg rating β 980 ratings 
46. 
As I Please: 1943-1945 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 3)
by:
George Orwell
4.42 avg rating β 383 ratings 
48. 
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath
by:
John Steinbeck
3.94 avg rating β 1,495 ratings 
50. 
My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 2)
by:
George Orwell
4.28 avg rating β 634 ratings 
56. 
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free 3.71 avg rating β 4,193 ratings
57. 
The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
by:
Γ
sne Seierstad
4.09 avg rating β 1,545 ratings 58. 
Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11
by:
Wayne Barrett
3.71 avg rating β 78 ratings 59. 
Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs
by:
David Philipps
4.48 avg rating β 1,725 ratings 60. 
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
by:
Angela Chen
4.34 avg rating β 18,722 ratings 61. 
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
by:
Jenny Nordberg
4.11 avg rating β 13,994 ratings 61. 
In koelen bloede : Een waar verslag van een viervoudige moord en zijn gevolgen
by:
Truman Capote
4.09 avg rating β 710,371 ratings 61. 
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by:
Jake Johnston
4.14 avg rating β 209 ratings 64. 
Het zijn net mensen: Beelden uit het Midden-Oosten
by:
Joris Luyendijk
4.17 avg rating β 6,479 ratings 65. 
65. 
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands
by:
Aatish Taseer
3.72 avg rating β 853 ratings 67. 
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
by:
Gitta Sereny
3.88 avg rating β 1,719 ratings 67. 
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by:
Jon Ronson
3.95 avg rating β 155,562 ratings 
71. 
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession 3.44 avg rating β 13,713 ratings
72. 
73. 
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
by:
Helene Cooper
3.91 avg rating β 8,008 ratings 74. 
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlβA National Book Award Winner
by:
Timothy Egan
4.06 avg rating β 60,124 ratings 74. 
First in His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton
by:
David Maraniss
4.06 avg rating β 1,741 ratings 
77. 
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink
by:
Juliana Barbassa
3.92 avg rating β 633 ratings 
79. 
In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 4)
by:
George Orwell
4.42 avg rating β 348 ratings 79. 
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating β 21,503 ratings 
83. 
An Age Like This: 1920-1940 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 1)
by:
George Orwell
4.31 avg rating β 403 ratings 84. 
84. 
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by:
Marc Reisner
4.28 avg rating β 11,658 ratings 
84. 
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.96 avg rating β 614,698 ratings 
89. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating β 844,255 ratings 92. 
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
by:
Jason DeParle
4.06 avg rating β 993 ratings 93. 
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
by:
Chris Hedges
3.95 avg rating β 5,937 ratings 93. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating β 10,688 ratings 95. 
A Fist in the Hornet's Nest: On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During & After the War
by:
Richard Engel
4.04 avg rating β 252 ratings 
97. 
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.20 avg rating β 87,491 ratings 
