Best Books by Journalists

1.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,075 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,376 ratings
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All the President’s Men
All the President’s Men 4.18 avg rating — 56,974 ratings
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating — 35,954 ratings
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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 — 276,379 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 4.45 avg rating — 96,067 ratings
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The Sorrows of Young Mike
The Sorrows of Young Mike 3.59 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,460 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,819 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by: Dan Fagin
4.09 avg rating — 4,618 ratings
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Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,739 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith 4.01 avg rating — 220,446 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 — 101,060 ratings
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The Killing fields: The facts behind the film
The Killing fields: The facts behind the film 4.33 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Past Deadline: A Blurry Glimpse Into the Aspen Music Beat
Past Deadline: A Blurry Glimpse Into the Aspen Music Beat 4.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Roughing It
Roughing It 3.88 avg rating — 10,054 ratings
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast 4.17 avg rating — 3,064 ratings
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The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2008] Seierstad, Asne
The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2008] Seierstad, Asne 4.09 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions 4.19 avg rating — 5,031 ratings
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide 4.26 avg rating — 10,877 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 — 51,935 ratings
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor 3.85 avg rating — 10,472 ratings
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Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World 4.35 avg rating — 1,673 ratings
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A Dirty War
A Dirty War 4.29 avg rating — 640 ratings
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present 4.22 avg rating — 7,536 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 — 13,994 ratings
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya 4.31 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival 3.98 avg rating — 9,531 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death 3.98 avg rating — 76,136 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings
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Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs
Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs 4.14 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 4.07 avg rating — 19,296 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 — 101,060 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us 4.01 avg rating — 32,460 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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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by: Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,338 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,667 ratings
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa 4.17 avg rating — 9,387 ratings
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz 4.30 avg rating — 132,013 ratings
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa 4.28 avg rating — 4,628 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.84 avg rating — 120,606 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War 4.10 avg rating — 24,892 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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A Brief History of Tomorrow
A Brief History of Tomorrow 3.42 avg rating — 38 ratings
44.
The Library Book
The Library Book 3.89 avg rating — 121,031 ratings
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Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?"
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?" 3.92 avg rating — 3,968 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail 4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings
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A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America 4.19 avg rating — 8,808 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,289 ratings
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Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe 3.98 avg rating — 329 ratings
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The Shipping News
The Shipping News 3.88 avg rating — 150,739 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology 3.82 avg rating — 13,927 ratings
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Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth 3.48 avg rating — 2,246 ratings
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.99 avg rating — 5,211 ratings
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The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,236 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 — 43,156 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,517 ratings
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Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq
Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq 3.81 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Best and the Brightest
The Best and the Brightest 4.27 avg rating — 12,645 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,608 ratings
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On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist 4.52 avg rating — 4,958 ratings
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Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism 4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings
63.
Margaret Mitchell, Reporter
Margaret Mitchell, Reporter 3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings
64.
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe 4.06 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy 4.18 avg rating — 3,729 ratings
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 4.03 avg rating — 49,876 ratings
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze 4.28 avg rating — 13,672 ratings
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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank 4.07 avg rating — 474 ratings
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The Second Mountain
The Second Mountain 3.76 avg rating — 12,554 ratings
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Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Altering Eden: The Feminization of Nature
Altering Eden: The Feminization of Nature 4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women 4.05 avg rating — 14,927 ratings
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News of a Kidnapping
News of a Kidnapping 3.91 avg rating — 15,716 ratings
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Personal History: A Memoir
Personal History: A Memoir 4.09 avg rating — 24,451 ratings
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Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South
Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South 4.08 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta 4.22 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader 4.54 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians 4.22 avg rating — 823 ratings
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The Forever War
The Forever War 4.13 avg rating — 11,315 ratings
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston 4.36 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
by: Helen Zia
4.47 avg rating — 5,196 ratings
82.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,099 ratings
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Who Killed Karen Silkwood?
Who Killed Karen Silkwood? 3.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War
Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War 4.67 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence 4.08 avg rating — 530 ratings
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The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron 4.15 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan 3.93 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?
Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? 3.69 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War
Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
88.
The Ways of the Dead (Sully Carter #1)
The Ways of the Dead (Sully Carter #1) 3.66 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel 3.75 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
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Alligators in B-Flat: Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida
Alligators in B-Flat: Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida 4.18 avg rating — 92 ratings
88.
Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade
Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade 3.89 avg rating — 533 ratings
88.
Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo?
Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? 4.34 avg rating — 894 ratings
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Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad
Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad 4.06 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality 4.28 avg rating — 3,127 ratings
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Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City 4.52 avg rating — 14,025 ratings
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Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America
Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America 4.28 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Mares de cocaína: Las rutas náuticas del narcotráfico
Mares de cocaína: Las rutas náuticas del narcotráfico 3.45 avg rating — 49 ratings
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On Fire: A Memoir
On Fire: A Memoir 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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