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Task #5: A book by a journalist or about journalism #ReadHarder 2019
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
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4.03 avg rating — 656 ratings
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No Logo
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3.89 avg rating — 32,554 ratings
score: 82,
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| 103 |
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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
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3.67 avg rating — 3,828 ratings
score: 81,
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| 103 |
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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
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3.90 avg rating — 579 ratings
score: 81,
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| 105 |
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Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
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4.18 avg rating — 640 ratings
score: 80,
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| 106 |
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The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment
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3.83 avg rating — 372 ratings
score: 79,
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| 106 |
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Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
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3.93 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
score: 79,
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| 108 |
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
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4.13 avg rating — 24,305 ratings
score: 78,
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| 108 |
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The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed
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3.77 avg rating — 154 ratings
score: 78,
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| 110 |
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Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
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4.21 avg rating — 936 ratings
score: 77,
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| 110 |
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The Snarling Citizen: Essays
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3.60 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 77,
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| 112 |
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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
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4.04 avg rating — 794 ratings
score: 76,
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| 112 |
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 36,638 ratings
score: 76,
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| 112 |
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Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex
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3.60 avg rating — 75 ratings
score: 76,
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| 112 |
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Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
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4.26 avg rating — 811 ratings
score: 76,
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| 116 |
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Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
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3.77 avg rating — 391 ratings
score: 75,
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| 117 |
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
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4.10 avg rating — 10,459 ratings
score: 74,
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| 118 |
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Personal History: A Memoir
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4.09 avg rating — 24,593 ratings
score: 73,
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| 118 |
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Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly
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Deborah Noyes (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 1,075 ratings
score: 73,
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| 120 |
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Scoop
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3.79 avg rating — 22,226 ratings
score: 72,
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| 121 |
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The Imperfectionists
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Tom Rachman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 50,248 ratings
score: 71,
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| 121 |
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Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business—and Won!
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3.51 avg rating — 229 ratings
score: 71,
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| 123 |
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The Quiet American
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3.98 avg rating — 69,736 ratings
score: 70,
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| 124 |
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Towards the End of the Morning
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3.63 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
score: 69,
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| 125 |
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The Shipping News
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3.88 avg rating — 151,485 ratings
score: 67,
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| 126 |
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Thank You for Your Service
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4.13 avg rating — 7,024 ratings
score: 62,
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| 127 |
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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Dan Fagin (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 4,644 ratings
score: 60,
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| 128 |
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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4.17 avg rating — 3,120 ratings
score: 59,
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| 129 |
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 40,036 ratings
score: 58,
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| 130 |
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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3.98 avg rating — 115,597 ratings
score: 53,
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| 131 |
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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4.22 avg rating — 36,276 ratings
score: 52,
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| 132 |
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
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Brian Castner (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 718 ratings
score: 51,
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| 133 |
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Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
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4.11 avg rating — 4,565 ratings
score: 50,
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| 134 |
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
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4.35 avg rating — 13,301 ratings
score: 48,
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| 135 |
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The Interpreter
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Suki Kim (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 1,731 ratings
score: 46,
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| 136 |
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 121,055 ratings
score: 43,
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| 137 |
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The Persian Pickle Club
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3.77 avg rating — 23,450 ratings
score: 40,
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| 138 |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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4.06 avg rating — 373,546 ratings
score: 39,
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| 139 |
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (The Gonzo Papers, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 14,242 ratings
score: 38,
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| 140 |
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Year of Wonders
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 173,142 ratings
score: 36,
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| 141 |
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Caleb's Crossing
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 71,382 ratings
score: 35,
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| 142 |
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Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
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3.95 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
score: 33,
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| 143 |
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Fast Copy (Texas Tradition Series) (Volume 30)
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3.69 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 29,
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| 144 |
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Sold on a Monday
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Kristina McMorris (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 118,056 ratings
score: 28,
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| 145 |
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The Columbine Effect: How five teen pastimes got caught in the crossfire and why teens are taking them back
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Beth Winegarner (Goodreads Author)
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score: 26,
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| 146 |
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Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa
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Beth Winegarner (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 25,
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| 147 |
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The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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3.48 avg rating — 7,056 ratings
score: 24,
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| 148 |
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
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3.99 avg rating — 4,260 ratings
score: 21,
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| 149 |
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Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
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Sarah Glidden (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 2,095 ratings
score: 19,
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| 150 |
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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3.93 avg rating — 65,427 ratings
score: 17,
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| 151 |
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We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists
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Melissa Falkowski (Editor)
4.08 avg rating — 464 ratings
score: 16,
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| 152 |
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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
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Tina Brown (Author and Narrator)
3.76 avg rating — 4,261 ratings
score: 14,
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| 153 |
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
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Monica Hesse (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 16,540 ratings
score: 12,
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
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4.13 avg rating — 2,317 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 439,677 ratings
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Dispatches
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4.22 avg rating — 21,383 ratings
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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
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4.31 avg rating — 2,473 ratings
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Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
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4.14 avg rating — 12,469 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 63,607 ratings
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