Investigative Journalism: A Survival Guide
By: David Leigh
4.21
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
At a time of hyper-partisanship, media fragmentation and "fake news", the work of investigative jou…
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1. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
By: David Simon
3.65
Format: 135 pages,
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the b… read more
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2. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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3. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
By: Peter Vronsky
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4. Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
By: Mark Kramer , Wendy Call
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
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5. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
By: Ann Rule
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murdere… read more
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6. The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
By: Robert S. Boynton
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movemen… read more
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7. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Kraka… read more
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8. All the President’s Men
By: Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein
4.18
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The full account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters who broke the stor… read more
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"The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the hist…"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
"Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment c…"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
"Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, p…"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
"Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one …"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
9. Dispatches
By: Michael Herr
4.22
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when… read more
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"for years now there had been no country here but the war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
10. The Martian Chronicles
By: Ray Bradbury
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonis… read more
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11. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
12. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
13. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
14. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.72
Format: 16 pages, Audiobook
15 hours, 54 minutes Read by a 45-person cast, with Holter Graham and the author Over the pas… read more
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"We met when we were only 16, at a high school dance. When he died, we were 50. I remember how I didn't want that day to end, terrible as it was. I didn't want to go to sleep because as long as I was …"-Garrett M. Graff, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
15. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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16. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
By: Ronan Farrow
4.40
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered abou… read more
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"All the women before feel I am their fault," she said. "And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault."-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
"Trying to get ahold of Davis later on, i asked Jonathan, "Who would have Lanny Davis's number?" He replied, I don't know, Pol Pot?"-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
17. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
By: Eliot Higgins
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more
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18. Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews
By: Sam McAlister
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The secrets of a former Newsnight producer who found her way to Buckingham Palace 'A cracking re… read more
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19. Investigative Journalism: A Survival Guide
By: David Leigh
4.21
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
At a time of hyper-partisanship, media fragmentation and "fake news", the work of investigative jou… read more
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