Reporter as Protagonist (Non-fiction)
2. 
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.40 avg rating — 101,062 ratings 
4. 
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia 3.97 avg rating — 11,441 ratings
6. 
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
by:
Shane Bauer
4.23 avg rating — 12,499 ratings 7. 
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson 4.15 avg rating — 1,694 ratings
10. 
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by:
Jodi Kantor
4.34 avg rating — 43,156 ratings 10. 
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Jerry Mitchell
4.43 avg rating — 2,081 ratings 10. 
Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper
by:
Chris Horrie
4.28 avg rating — 150 ratings 13. 
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by:
Gary Webb
4.30 avg rating — 1,967 ratings 13. 
The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968
by:
Roy Peter Clark
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 15. 
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by:
Gene Roberts
4.21 avg rating — 1,624 ratings 15. 
18. 
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by:
Tom O'Neill
4.04 avg rating — 32,230 ratings 18. 
My Time With the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Kathryn Johnson
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings 18. 
Walking Home From Mongolia: Ten Million Steps Through China, From the Gobi Desert to the South China Sea
by:
Rob Lilwall
3.80 avg rating — 321 ratings 
21. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings 24. 
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Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1996
by:
Harry S. Ashmore
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 24. 
North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State
by:
John Sweeney
3.61 avg rating — 1,371 ratings 27. 
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
by:
Glenn Greenwald
4.07 avg rating — 14,931 ratings 27. 
Down to Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
Pat Watters
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 29. 
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money 4.08 avg rating — 4,350 ratings
29. 
A Church, a School: Civil Rights Editorials from the Atlanta Constitution
by:
Ralph McGill
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 29. 
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 — 3,968 ratings 32. 
Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Lyndhurst Series on the South)
by:
Danny Lyon
4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings 
35. 
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
by:
Paul Mason
3.75 avg rating — 268 ratings 
37. 
This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
by:
Andy Greenberg
4.01 avg rating — 1,188 ratings 
44. 
Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria
by:
Muhammad Najem
4.51 avg rating — 777 ratings 
46. 
Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 1)
by:
Carolin Emcke
4.56 avg rating — 94 ratings 
48. 
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World 4.09 avg rating — 2,779 ratings
49. 
Four Wars, Five Presidents: A Reporter's Journey from Jerusalem to Saigon to the White House
by:
Terence Smith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings 
51. 
The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate
by:
Tom Brokaw
3.54 avg rating — 1,112 ratings 52. 
Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
by:
Kim Todd
3.85 avg rating — 665 ratings 53. 
American Epidemic: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis
by:
John McMillian
4.19 avg rating — 72 ratings 
55. 
Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times
by:
Scott Pelley
4.45 avg rating — 1,088 ratings 56. 
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
by:
Calvin Trillin
4.01 avg rating — 351 ratings 
58. 
Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod
by:
Ray E. Boomhower
3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings 59. 
War Torn: The Personal Experiences of Women Reporters in the Vietnam War
by:
Tad Bartimus
4.40 avg rating — 198 ratings 60. 
Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture
by:
Jason E. Hill
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 61. 
Stanley Johnston's Blunder: The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.S. Navy's Victory at Midway
by:
Elliot Carlson
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 
63. 
Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists
by:
Eleanor Mills
3.98 avg rating — 402 ratings 64. 
Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine
by:
Bill Wasik
3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings 65. 
Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.
by:
James Ellroy
3.56 avg rating — 2,039 ratings 
67. 
Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
by:
Alfredo Corchado
3.78 avg rating — 1,735 ratings 68. 
Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Reporter
by:
Howard K. Smith
3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings 
71. 
WAKING UP SCREAMING FROM THE AMERICAN DREAM: NPR's Roving Correspondent Reports from the Bumpy Road to Success
by:
Bob Garfield
2.59 avg rating — 17 ratings 
76. 
The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms
by:
Ron Rosenbaum
4.32 avg rating — 144 ratings 77. 
The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America
by:
Mae Brussell
3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings 
79. 
China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American Journalists Who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution
by:
Peter Rand
3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings 80. 
Asking For Trouble - The Autobiography Of A Banned Journalist
by:
Donald Woods
4.52 avg rating — 123 ratings 81. 
Ink: The Years of Journalism Before the Days of Bloggers
by:
Robert Coram
4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 82. 
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy 3.93 avg rating — 749 ratings
83. 
Killing the Story: Journalists Risking Their Lives to Uncover the Truth in Mexico
by:
Témoris Grecko
3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings 
85. 
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism (Turning Points in History, 12)
by:
Bob Edwards
3.93 avg rating — 445 ratings 
89. 
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
90. 
Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist
by:
Philip Dray
4.24 avg rating — 161 ratings 91. 
Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism!
by:
Dave Barry
3.86 avg rating — 1,212 ratings 
93. 
Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
by:
Peter Laufer
3.68 avg rating — 215 ratings 94. 
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
by:
Belva Davis
4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings 
96. 
Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer
by:
John Moran
4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings 
98. 
I'm Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism
by:
Kate Coyne
3.72 avg rating — 1,112 ratings 99. 
The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
by:
Stanley Cloud
4.33 avg rating — 789 ratings 