Journalism & Journalism-Adjacent Works
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Teenage Hipster in the Modern World: From the Birth of Punk to the Land of Bush: Thirty Years of Apocalyptic Journalism
by:
Mark Jacobson
3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings 3. 
On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There 4.55 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More 3.96 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
by:
Talia Lavin
3.87 avg rating — 5,879 ratings 5. 
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The Pontiff in Winter: Triumph and Conflict in the Reign of John Paul II
by:
John Cornwell
3.76 avg rating — 112 ratings 7. 
Close-Up on War: The Story of Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam 4.10 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
by:
Dorothy Day
4.02 avg rating — 5,537 ratings 9. 
The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
by:
Bill Shaffer
3.60 avg rating — 1,716 ratings 11. 
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by:
C.L.R. James
4.39 avg rating — 7,201 ratings 
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A Creed for My Profession: Walter Williams, Journalist to the World (Volume 1) (Missouri Biography Series)
by:
Ronald T. Farrar
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 15. 
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
by:
Spencer Ackerman
4.12 avg rating — 2,166 ratings 
17. 
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 
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Guernica! Guernica!: A Study of a Journalism, Diplomacy, Propaganda, and History 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
21. 
Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist's Guide to Investigative Reporting
by:
Ruby Shamir
4.15 avg rating — 237 ratings 
23. 
Asking For Trouble - The Autobiography Of A Banned Journalist
by:
Donald Woods
4.52 avg rating — 123 ratings 
25. 
Ink: The Years of Journalism Before the Days of Bloggers
by:
Robert Coram
4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 27. 
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
by:
Jeff Chang
4.14 avg rating — 5,536 ratings 27. 
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy 3.93 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Killing the Story: Journalists Risking Their Lives to Uncover the Truth in Mexico
by:
Témoris Grecko
3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings 31. 
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating — 149,038 ratings
33. 
War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare
by:
Robert Taber
4.14 avg rating — 673 ratings 
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Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris: 23 November - 14 December, 1974
by:
Werner Herzog
3.79 avg rating — 3,607 ratings 35. 
Democracy without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society
by:
Victor Pickard
4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings 
37. 
The World of Jak Smyrl: South Carolina Artist, Journalist, Cartoonist
by:
Joan A Inabinet
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 39. 
The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
by:
Jeremy Scahill
3.90 avg rating — 899 ratings 39. 
Ben Robertson: South Carolina Journalist and Author
by:
Jodie Peeler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 41. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,727 ratings 41. 
The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity 4.32 avg rating — 255 ratings
43. 
The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts
by:
Andrew E. Stoner
3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings 
45. 
Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944–1946
by:
Samuel Hynes
4.51 avg rating — 105 ratings 
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists
by:
Eleanor Mills
3.98 avg rating — 402 ratings 
51. 
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America 3.77 avg rating — 389 ratings
53. 
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by:
Alan Rusbridger
4.23 avg rating — 730 ratings 
55. 
News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars
by:
Ronald Weber
3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings 
59. 
Bureau of Spies: The Secret Connections Between Espionage and Journalism in Washington
by:
Steven T. Usdin
3.55 avg rating — 33 ratings 61. 
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
by:
Carl Wilson
3.97 avg rating — 3,617 ratings 61. 
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
by:
Marie Colvin
4.47 avg rating — 483 ratings 
63. 
Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
by:
Bonnie Yochelson
3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings 
65. 
The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism
by:
Joyce Milton
3.69 avg rating — 36 ratings 
69. 
Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920-1944 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
by:
John T. Kneebone
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 70. 
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
by:
Marc Weingarten
3.89 avg rating — 340 ratings 71. 
On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam
by:
Joyce Hoffmann
4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism
by:
Marc Aronson
4.03 avg rating — 222 ratings 75. 
Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion
by:
Michael Dupuis
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 76. 
Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism 3.58 avg rating — 110 ratings
78. 
The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994
by:
Andrew Kopkind
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings 79. 
The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures
by:
Paul Cowan
3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings 80. 
Beyond News: The Future of Journalism (Columbia Journalism Review Books) 3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings
81. 
The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
83. 
Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family
by:
Lisa Fenn
4.49 avg rating — 1,081 ratings 84. 
The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
by:
Stanley Cloud
4.33 avg rating — 789 ratings 85. 
I'm Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism
by:
Kate Coyne
3.72 avg rating — 1,112 ratings 86. 
Smartass: The Music Journalism of Joel Selvin: California Rock and Roll
by:
Joel Selvin
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings 87. 
The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher
by:
Alice Arlen
3.65 avg rating — 109 ratings 88. 
Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print (Nation Books)
by:
David Wallis
3.62 avg rating — 86 ratings 
91. 
The Values and Craft of American Journalism: Essays from the Poynter Institute
by:
Roy Peter Clark
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 
95. 
The Photojournalism of Del Hall: New Orleans and Beyond, 1950s–2000s 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
97. 
The Celestine Sibley Sampler: Writings & Photographs With Tributes to the Beloved Author and Journalist
by:
Celestine Sibley
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings 98. 
Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post
by:
Jeff Himmelman
3.99 avg rating — 256 ratings 99. 
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
by:
Belva Davis
4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings 100. 
Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism
by:
John G. Morris
4.24 avg rating — 71 ratings