Best Books by Journalists

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Before I Forget
Before I Forget really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing
The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing 4.01 avg rating — 178 ratings
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror 4.29 avg rating — 10,842 ratings
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Press Gang
Press Gang it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Courier (Freelancer #1)
Courier (Freelancer #1) 3.88 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon 4.14 avg rating — 76,322 ratings
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Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel 4.14 avg rating — 11,261 ratings
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The Monster of Florence
The Monster of Florence 3.76 avg rating — 36,068 ratings
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast 4.25 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration 4.31 avg rating — 1,825 ratings
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Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children 4.37 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World 4.08 avg rating — 2,659 ratings
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Newcross (The Newcross Trilogy, #1)
Newcross (The Newcross Trilogy, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures) 4.20 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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Pilgrims Rest
Pilgrims Rest 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India 3.86 avg rating — 3,615 ratings
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Parade of Horses
Parade of Horses it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Black Mass
Black Mass
by: Dick Lehr
3.81 avg rating — 8,475 ratings
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A Distant Flame: A Novel
A Distant Flame: A Novel 4.27 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World 4.12 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers 4.35 avg rating — 9,511 ratings
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Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
by: Andy Ngo
4.17 avg rating — 2,763 ratings
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Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West 4.17 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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Natasha's Story
Natasha's Story 3.80 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens 4.22 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Up with the Times
Up with the Times 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,328 ratings
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions 4.29 avg rating — 5,875 ratings
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Sophia's Story
Sophia's Story 4.11 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 4.26 avg rating — 551,031 ratings
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The Russians
The Russians 4.02 avg rating — 792 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
A Crack in the Edge of the World 3.79 avg rating — 7,187 ratings
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A Measure of Danger
A Measure of Danger 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair
The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair 3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide
Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide 3.94 avg rating — 217 ratings
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A June of Ordinary Murders (Joe Swallow, #1)
A June of Ordinary Murders (Joe Swallow, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship 3.90 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Atlanta's Half-Century: As Seen Through the Eyes of Columnists Furman Bisher and Celestine Sibley
Atlanta's Half-Century: As Seen Through the Eyes of Columnists Furman Bisher and Celestine Sibley 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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I've Been Thinking . . .: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life
I've Been Thinking . . .: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life 4.18 avg rating — 6,375 ratings
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Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People
Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People 3.95 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town 4.12 avg rating — 57,735 ratings
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Ten Days in a Mad-House
Ten Days in a Mad-House 3.86 avg rating — 23,039 ratings
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom 3.84 avg rating — 4,778 ratings
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From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa 4.28 avg rating — 2,239 ratings
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White Trash (White Series Book 1)
White Trash (White Series Book 1) 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver 3.81 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Peachtree Street, U.S.A.
Peachtree Street, U.S.A. 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches
Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches 4.46 avg rating — 270 ratings
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America 4.10 avg rating — 4,373 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World 4.06 avg rating — 58,655 ratings
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Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground
Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground 4.36 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time 3.93 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist 4.02 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
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Roadkill (Allie Lindell, #1)
Roadkill (Allie Lindell, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Celestine Sibley Sampler: Writings & Photographs With Tributes to the Beloved Author and Journalist
The Celestine Sibley Sampler: Writings & Photographs With Tributes to the Beloved Author and Journalist 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Brexit and Ireland
Brexit and Ireland 4.29 avg rating — 240 ratings
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They're Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd
They're Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd 4.49 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
Finding George Orwell in Burma 3.96 avg rating — 3,664 ratings
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Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire 3.81 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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Fiasco in Ethiopia
Fiasco in Ethiopia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 50,754 ratings
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Damaged Goods
Damaged Goods 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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A Plague of Kinfolks (Kate Mulcay, #4)
A Plague of Kinfolks (Kate Mulcay, #4) 3.48 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite
Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite 4.25 avg rating — 469 ratings
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The Greatest Evil is War
The Greatest Evil is War 4.41 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Celestine Sibley, Reporter
Celestine Sibley, Reporter 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain 4.11 avg rating — 2,185 ratings
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets 4.46 avg rating — 20,857 ratings
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Grizzardisms:: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard
Grizzardisms:: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard 4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together
Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,133 ratings
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Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System
Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System 4.20 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War
Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War 3.78 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper
Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper 4.28 avg rating — 150 ratings
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The Grizzard Sampler: A Collection of the Early Writings of Lewis Grizzard
The Grizzard Sampler: A Collection of the Early Writings of Lewis Grizzard 4.43 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life 3.97 avg rating — 5,125 ratings
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality 4.04 avg rating — 4,815 ratings
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The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship
The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America 3.61 avg rating — 2,033 ratings
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Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma
Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma 3.79 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak 4.35 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Mans World
Mans World 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice 4.47 avg rating — 2,410 ratings
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The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks
The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks 3.81 avg rating — 380 ratings
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The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government
The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government 4.24 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan
Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan 3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,960 ratings
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Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
by: Jeff Chu
4.03 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
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Letters to a Young Journalist
Letters to a Young Journalist 3.91 avg rating — 245 ratings
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The Ape-Slayer and Other Snapshots
The Ape-Slayer and Other Snapshots 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland 4.25 avg rating — 62,189 ratings
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,860 ratings
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30 Pub Notes
30 Pub Notes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect 3.85 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
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Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers
Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Live from Baghdad: Making Journalism History Behind the Lines
Live from Baghdad: Making Journalism History Behind the Lines 4.03 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books
Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It 3.46 avg rating — 1,519 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by: Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,191 ratings
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Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason
Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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