Great Reportage Books

1.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,440 ratings
2.
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 — 113,288 ratings
3.
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower 4.19 avg rating — 2,016 ratings
4.
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation 4.21 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
4.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water 4.28 avg rating — 11,658 ratings
6.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 4.52 avg rating — 27,076 ratings
6.
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
6.
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela 4.12 avg rating — 979 ratings
6.
Another Day of Life
Another Day of Life 4.18 avg rating — 5,796 ratings
10.
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 4.21 avg rating — 4,679 ratings
10.
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
10.
Imperium
Imperium 4.36 avg rating — 7,522 ratings
13.
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic 4.28 avg rating — 389 ratings
13.
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions 3.75 avg rating — 268 ratings
13.
In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos 4.02 avg rating — 781 ratings
16.
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
16.
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
16.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,857 ratings
19.
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory 4.26 avg rating — 8,012 ratings
19.
The People's Republic of Chemicals
The People's Republic of Chemicals 4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
19.
Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights 4.14 avg rating — 65,043 ratings
22.
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China 3.93 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
22.
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 — 550,980 ratings
24.
Comandante: Hugo Chávez's Venezuela
Comandante: Hugo Chávez's Venezuela 3.89 avg rating — 618 ratings
24.
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 4.26 avg rating — 18,905 ratings
26.
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3) 4.42 avg rating — 23,636 ratings
26.
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating — 228,791 ratings
28.
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago 4.22 avg rating — 2,992 ratings
28.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,097 ratings
30.
The Earl of Louisiana
The Earl of Louisiana 4.13 avg rating — 316 ratings
31.
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America 4.40 avg rating — 15,749 ratings
32.
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze 4.28 avg rating — 13,672 ratings
33.
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers 4.01 avg rating — 3,203 ratings
34.
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings
35.
The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now
The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now 4.13 avg rating — 456 ratings
36.
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II 4.30 avg rating — 4,770 ratings
37.
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression 4.19 avg rating — 2,895 ratings
38.
News of a Kidnapping
News of a Kidnapping 3.91 avg rating — 15,716 ratings
39.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,751 ratings
40.
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.26 avg rating — 5,208 ratings
41.
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality 4.44 avg rating — 712 ratings
42.
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy 4.15 avg rating — 233 ratings
43.
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football 4.05 avg rating — 3,507 ratings
44.
A Prayer for the City
A Prayer for the City 4.22 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
45.
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found 3.94 avg rating — 11,197 ratings
46.
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White 4.14 avg rating — 150 ratings
47.
Black and Gold
Black and Gold really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
48.
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War 4.30 avg rating — 11,662 ratings
49.
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? 4.16 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
50.
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis 3.84 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
51.
Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea (East Gate Book)
Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea (East Gate Book) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
52.
Tomorrow Is Another Country
Tomorrow Is Another Country 3.95 avg rating — 153 ratings
53.
Huey Long
Huey Long 4.23 avg rating — 2,111 ratings
54.
Den gåtfulla passionen : Essäer om den spanska världen
Den gåtfulla passionen : Essäer om den spanska världen 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
55.
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China 4.25 avg rating — 8,717 ratings
56.
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 4.45 avg rating — 96,063 ratings
57.
Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma
Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma 3.85 avg rating — 91 ratings
58.
On Being John McEnroe
On Being John McEnroe
by: Tim Adams
3.66 avg rating — 121 ratings