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1.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating β 426,118 ratings
2.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by:
Michelle McNamara
4.12 avg rating β 257,812 ratings
3.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by:
Michelle Alexander
4.52 avg rating β 115,057 ratings
4.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by:
Rebecca Skloot
4.13 avg rating β 787,167 ratings
5.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating β 276,400 ratings
6.
The Glass Castle
by:
Jeannette Walls
4.32 avg rating β 1,325,849 ratings
7.
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by:
Barbara Demick
4.45 avg rating β 96,078 ratings
8.
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
by:
Bill Bryson
3.90 avg rating β 68,630 ratings
9.
In Cold Blood
by:
Truman Capote
4.09 avg rating β 710,462 ratings
10.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.65 avg rating β 194,447 ratings
11.
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating β 28,863 ratings
12.
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
by:
Jose Antonio Vargas
4.31 avg rating β 14,904 ratings
13.
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 avg rating β 30,600 ratings
14.
The Library Book
by:
Susan Orlean
3.89 avg rating β 121,048 ratings
15.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
by:
Michelle McNamara
4.12 avg rating β 257,812 ratings
16.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by:
Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating β 208,907 ratings
17.
All the Presidentβs Men
by:
Carl Bernstein
4.18 avg rating β 56,981 ratings
18.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by:
David Grann
3.90 avg rating β 106,845 ratings
19.
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by:
Gene Roberts
4.21 avg rating β 1,624 ratings
20.
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating β 220,463 ratings
21.
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating β 26,734 ratings
22.
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
by:
Steve Weinberg
3.75 avg rating β 226 ratings
23.
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
by:
Dave Cullen
3.97 avg rating β 7,429 ratings
24.
Columbine
by:
Dave Cullen
4.29 avg rating β 99,754 ratings
25.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.26 avg rating β 551,080 ratings
26.
Fear: Trump in the White House
by:
Bob Woodward
3.87 avg rating β 64,804 ratings
27.
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the Worldβs Most Precious Manuscripts
by:
Joshua Hammer
3.49 avg rating β 12,191 ratings
28.
The White Album
by:
Joan Didion
4.03 avg rating β 47,355 ratings
29.
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
by:
Sarah Smarsh
3.76 avg rating β 16,289 ratings
30.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating β 44,512 ratings
31.
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
by:
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.15 avg rating β 23,623 ratings
31.
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.15 avg rating β 8,499 ratings
33.
The Journalist and the Murderer
by:
Janet Malcolm
3.80 avg rating β 5,579 ratings
34.
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
by:
Brooke Gladstone
3.86 avg rating β 3,086 ratings
35.
The Jungle
by:
Upton Sinclair
3.78 avg rating β 152,253 ratings
36.
Psmith, Journalist (Psmith, #3)
by:
P.G. Wodehouse
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3,509 ratings
37.
John Henry Days
by:
Colson Whitehead
3.63 avg rating β 3,370 ratings
38.
Death and the Penguin
by:
Andrey Kurkov
3.78 avg rating β 21,144 ratings
39.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating β 23,242 ratings
40.
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
by:
Suki Kim
3.93 avg rating β 21,803 ratings
41.
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
by:
Jenny Nordberg
4.11 avg rating β 13,996 ratings
42.
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
by:
Dan Rather
4.31 avg rating β 9,866 ratings
43.
Leave Me
by:
Gayle Forman
3.66 avg rating β 18,954 ratings
44.
A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption & Death in Putin's Russia
by:
Anna Politkovskaya
4.19 avg rating β 1,237 ratings
45.
March
by:
Geraldine Brooks
3.81 avg rating β 76,177 ratings
45.
Reporter: A Memoir
by:
Seymour M. Hersh
4.13 avg rating β 1,745 ratings
47.
One Hundred Years of Dirt
by:
Rick Morton
4.06 avg rating β 3,478 ratings
48.
Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms
by:
Dan Bernstein
3.91 avg rating β 33 ratings
49.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by:
James Agee
3.97 avg rating β 3,972 ratings
49.
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
by:
Katy Tur
3.96 avg rating β 17,465 ratings
51.
The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
by:
Sarah Kendzior
4.10 avg rating β 4,373 ratings
52.
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
by:
Shane Bauer
4.23 avg rating β 12,501 ratings
52.
It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America
by:
David Cay Johnston
4.05 avg rating β 1,734 ratings
52.
The dog, the hawk and I
by:
Ken Weber
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
52.
Hate Inc.: How, and Why, the Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by:
Matt Taibbi
4.10 avg rating β 5,604 ratings
52.
American War
by:
Omar El Akkad
3.80 avg rating β 41,120 ratings
52.
Plain Brown Wrapper (Alex Powell, #1)
by:
Karen Grigsby Bates
3.49 avg rating β 208 ratings
52.
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories
by:
Mariana EnrΓquez
4.05 avg rating β 55,340 ratings
52.
Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter
by:
Nina MacLaughlin
3.73 avg rating β 1,467 ratings
52.
Abbott
by:
Saladin Ahmed
4.03 avg rating β 2,671 ratings
52.
Beyond the Front Line
by:
Mike McRoberts
4.07 avg rating β 28 ratings
52.
Vajlett och Rut
by:
Karin Alfredsson
3.58 avg rating β 528 ratings
52.
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
by:
Emily Bazelon
4.31 avg rating β 1,825 ratings
52.
The Wife Drought
by:
Annabel Crabb
4.17 avg rating β 4,142 ratings
52.
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
by:
Jon Krakauer
3.72 avg rating β 11,479 ratings
52.
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by:
Patrick Radden Keefe
4.47 avg rating β 149,137 ratings
67.
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by:
Anna Funder
4.20 avg rating β 21,291 ratings
67.
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
by:
Elizabeth Catte
4.01 avg rating β 4,725 ratings
67.
On Disruption
by:
Katharine Murphy
4.18 avg rating β 143 ratings
67.
Uncomfortable Labels
by:
Laura Kate Dale
4.08 avg rating β 688 ratings
67.
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
by:
Anthony Shadid
4.15 avg rating β 913 ratings
67.
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
by:
Anna Politkovskaya
4.31 avg rating β 1,018 ratings
73.
American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
by:
Nancy Jo Sales
3.60 avg rating β 2,809 ratings
73.
Konsten att fejka arabiska: En berΓ€ttelse om autism
by:
Lina Liman
4.14 avg rating β 873 ratings
73.
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
by:
Dorothy Day
4.02 avg rating β 5,537 ratings
73.
The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
by:
Janine Di Giovanni
4.06 avg rating β 3,240 ratings
73.
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
by:
Ece Temelkuran
4.04 avg rating β 2,117 ratings
78.
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
by:
John Hockenberry
4.08 avg rating β 530 ratings
78.
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
by:
John McPhee
4.09 avg rating β 4,188 ratings
80.
After Henry
by:
Joan Didion
3.82 avg rating β 2,132 ratings
81.
Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
by:
April Ryan
3.66 avg rating β 436 ratings
82.
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
by:
T. Christian Miller
4.19 avg rating β 8,812 ratings
83.
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
by:
Kevin Young
3.17 avg rating β 1,068 ratings
84.
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.73 avg rating β 10,296 ratings
85.
The Rules Do Not Apply
by:
Ariel Levy
3.70 avg rating β 35,117 ratings
85.
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.26 avg rating β 7,485 ratings
85.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating β 51,945 ratings
88.
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
by:
Azadeh Moaveni
3.70 avg rating β 4,726 ratings
88.
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.37 avg rating β 4,834 ratings
90.
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
4.02 avg rating β 6,467 ratings
90.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,264 ratings
92.
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.51 avg rating β 4,862 ratings
92.
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
by:
Susan Faludi
3.83 avg rating β 871 ratings
94.
For One More Day
by:
Mitch Albom
4.13 avg rating β 157,505 ratings
94.
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.96 avg rating β 2,501 ratings
96.
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by:
Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating β 44,194 ratings
96.
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.84 avg rating β 1,276 ratings
98.
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.57 avg rating β 1,553 ratings
99.
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.86 avg rating β 1,507 ratings
99.
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by:
Susan Faludi
4.04 avg rating β 9,234 ratings
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