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1.
The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy
by:
Bill Carter
4.06 avg rating — 5,614 ratings
2.
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
by:
Tom Shales
4.08 avg rating — 19,830 ratings
3.
The Revolution Was Televised: How The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever
by:
Alan Sepinwall
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,771 ratings
3.
Breaking Bad: The Official Book
by:
David Thomson
4.30 avg rating — 236 ratings
5.
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
by:
Craig Marks
3.89 avg rating — 4,794 ratings
6.
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai
by:
Jim Colucci
4.38 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
7.
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad
by:
Brett Martin
3.84 avg rating — 3,491 ratings
8.
The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night
by:
Bill Carter
4.18 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
9.
The Power of Three (Charmed, #1)
by:
Eliza Willard
4.09 avg rating — 2,762 ratings
10.
Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"
by:
Ramin Setoodeh
3.75 avg rating — 7,039 ratings
11.
Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN
by:
Susanne Daniels
3.58 avg rating — 199 ratings
12.
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
by:
Michael Davis
3.66 avg rating — 3,442 ratings
13.
Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
by:
Warren Littlefield
3.67 avg rating — 3,180 ratings
13.
One Tree Hill: #1 The Beginning
by:
Jenny Markas
4.13 avg rating — 365 ratings
15.
The Outsider (The OC, #1)
by:
Cory Martin
3.64 avg rating — 241 ratings
16.
The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
by:
Chris Smith
4.14 avg rating — 8,744 ratings
17.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Here Be Monsters
by:
Cameron Dokey
4.07 avg rating — 1,226 ratings
18.
Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age
by:
Mathew Klickstein
3.13 avg rating — 1,351 ratings
19.
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
by:
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
3.72 avg rating — 9,686 ratings
20.
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
by:
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
3.82 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
21.
The Sopranos Sessions
by:
Matt Zoller Seitz
4.36 avg rating — 2,231 ratings
22.
On The Frontlines Of The Television War: A Legendary War Cameraman In Vietnam
by:
Yasutsune Hirashiki
4.21 avg rating — 62 ratings
23.
Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV
by:
Brian Stelter
3.42 avg rating — 2,022 ratings
24.
The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About Today
by:
Kimberly Potts
3.57 avg rating — 494 ratings
25.
Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
by:
Saul Austerlitz
3.58 avg rating — 371 ratings
26.
VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave
by:
Nina Blackwood
3.65 avg rating — 1,796 ratings
27.
Doctor Who: The Television Companion: The Official BBC Guide to Every TV Story
by:
David J. Howe
4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings
28.
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen
by:
Mark Shaw
3.74 avg rating — 2,638 ratings
29.
Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice
by:
Maureen McCormick
3.55 avg rating — 6,454 ratings
30.
The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour, and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News
by:
Sheila Weller
3.63 avg rating — 763 ratings
31.
TV (the Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time
by:
Alan Sepinwall
3.91 avg rating — 1,896 ratings
32.
I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends
by:
Kelsey Miller
3.73 avg rating — 14,379 ratings
33.
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV
by:
Stan Berenstain
4.07 avg rating — 16,841 ratings
33.
Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast
by:
Jeff Fager
4.09 avg rating — 232 ratings
35.
And So It Goes: Adventures in Television
by:
Linda Ellerbee
3.74 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
36.
Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to "Oldies" on TV
by:
Boyd McDonald
4.19 avg rating — 80 ratings
37.
Michael Landon: The Career and Artistry of a Television Genius
by:
David R. Greenland
3.53 avg rating — 105 ratings
38.
The A-Z of Classic Children's Television: From Alberto Frog to Zebedee
by:
Simon Sheridan
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
39.
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
by:
Alan Sepinwall
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,771 ratings
39.
My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves
by:
Agnes Nixon
3.99 avg rating — 332 ratings
41.
Gotham City 14 Miles: 14 Essays on Why the 1960s Batman TV Series Matters
by:
Jim Beard
3.84 avg rating — 119 ratings
42.
SCTV: Behind the Scenes
by:
Dave Thomas
4.14 avg rating — 125 ratings
43.
Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows
by:
Kathleen Collins
3.34 avg rating — 95 ratings
44.
Not Young, Still Restless
by:
Jeanne Cooper
4.11 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
44.
True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Jon Else
3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings
44.
Growing Up Brady, I Was a Teenage Greg
by:
Barry Williams
3.59 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
47.
PBS : Behind the Screen
by:
Laurence Jarvik
3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
48.
Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from The Exorcist to Seinfeld
by:
Thomas S. Hibbs
3.74 avg rating — 78 ratings
49.
Jim Henson: The Works - The Art, the Magic, the Imagination
by:
Christopher Finch
4.48 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
50.
TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television
by:
Lynn Spigel
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
51.
Project Runway: The Show That Changed Fashion
by:
Eila Mell
3.70 avg rating — 124 ratings
52.
TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War over the Internet
by:
Cynthia Littleton
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
53.
I Love Lucy: Behind the Scenes
by:
Jess Oppenheimer
3.93 avg rating — 955 ratings
54.
From Scratch: Inside the Food Network
by:
Allen Salkin
3.21 avg rating — 1,604 ratings
55.
Stay Tuned: Television's Unforgettable Moments
by:
Joe Garner
3.64 avg rating — 80 ratings
56.
Television: A Biography
by:
David Thomson
3.37 avg rating — 99 ratings
57.
Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar
by:
Kevin Cook
3.94 avg rating — 186 ratings
58.
Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers
by:
James Andrew Miller
3.83 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
59.
The Wonderful World of Disney Television: A Complete History
by:
Bill Cotter
4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings
60.
The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific
by:
David Bianculli
3.90 avg rating — 435 ratings
61.
Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric
by:
Grant Tinker
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
62.
Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
by:
Tom Davis
3.21 avg rating — 601 ratings
63.
The Official Batman Batbook
by:
Joel Eisner
4.23 avg rating — 71 ratings
64.
Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of Doctor Who
by:
James Chapman
3.66 avg rating — 98 ratings
65.
Saturday Morning Fever: Growing up with Cartoon Culture
by:
Timothy Burke
3.55 avg rating — 80 ratings
66.
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek-The First 25 Years
by:
Mark A. Altman
4.09 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
67.
On the Good Ship Enterprise: My 15 Years With Star Trek
by:
Bjo Trimble
4.15 avg rating — 48 ratings
68.
Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
by:
Gina Keating
3.97 avg rating — 1,610 ratings
69.
Downton Abbey: A Celebration - The Official Companion to All Six Seasons
by:
Jessica Fellowes
4.43 avg rating — 859 ratings
70.
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
by:
Michael Mallory
4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
71.
Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
by:
David Kamp
3.92 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
72.
Investigating Veronica Mars: Essays on the Teen Detective Series
by:
Rhonda V. Wilcox
3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings
72.
I'm a F***ing Star: Get on Reality TV
by:
William Alexander
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
72.
The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book
by:
Vince Waldron
4.36 avg rating — 182 ratings
72.
Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
by:
Ben Shapiro
3.79 avg rating — 905 ratings
72.
Banging My Head Against the Wall: A Comedy Writer's Guide to Seeing Stars
by:
Andy Cowan
2.91 avg rating — 78 ratings
72.
Inside Hbo: The Billion Dollar War Between Hbo, Hollywood, and the Home Video Revolution
by:
George Mair
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
72.
E Unibus Pluram
by:
David Foster Wallace
4.39 avg rating — 282 ratings
72.
Love That Journey for Me: The Queer Revolution of Schitt's Creek (Inklings, #1)
by:
Emily Garside
4.11 avg rating — 592 ratings
80.
Truth is a Total Defense: My Fifty Years in Television
by:
Steven Bochco
3.62 avg rating — 90 ratings
80.
Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
by:
Ira Rosen
4.07 avg rating — 906 ratings
80.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by:
Neil Postman
4.16 avg rating — 36,102 ratings
83.
Television: Technology and Cultural Form
by:
Raymond Williams
3.75 avg rating — 199 ratings
83.
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
by:
James Andrew Miller
3.76 avg rating — 14,421 ratings
83.
Naturally Tan
by:
Tan France
3.79 avg rating — 22,630 ratings
86.
Lou Grant: The Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama
by:
Douglass K. Daniel
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
87.
Britain's Greatest TV Comedy Moments
by:
Louis Barfe
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
87.
The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts
by:
Tom Farley Jr.
4.30 avg rating — 6,336 ratings
87.
Sex and the City Uncovered: Exposing the Emptiness and Healing the Hurt
by:
Marian Jordan
3.90 avg rating — 155 ratings
90.
The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV (Applause Books)
by:
Stephen Tropiano
3.48 avg rating — 54 ratings
90.
Penguin Tv Companion 4/e
by:
Jeff Evans
4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
90.
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
by:
Bob Woodward
3.74 avg rating — 2,695 ratings
93.
The Guinness Book of Classic British TV
by:
Paul Cornell
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
94.
The Showrunners: A Season Inside the Billion-Dollar, Death-Defying, Madcap World of Television's Real Stars
by:
David Wild
3.47 avg rating — 62 ratings
94.
All My Suspects
by:
Louise Shaffer
3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
94.
Made Possible By...: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States
by:
James Ledbetter
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
94.
TV Heaven: Your Ultimate Guide to Classic Telly, Cult Shows, One-Hit Wonders, Soaps, TV Firsts and Forgotten Gems
by:
Jim Sangster
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
94.
Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love
by:
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
3.81 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
94.
Fantastic Television: A Pictoral History of Sci-Fi, the Unusual, and the Fantastic
by:
Gary Gerani
4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
100.
The Life and Times of Call the Midwife
by:
Heidi Thomas
4.44 avg rating — 3,283 ratings
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