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I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ReidInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Popsugar 2020 - A Book by or about a Journalist
338 books — 189 voters
The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
284 books — 141 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherJourney to the West by Biao WangThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Vote For Your 100 Favorite Non-Fiction Books of All Time
415 books — 98 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchBad Blood by John Carreyrou
Best Books by Journalists
287 books — 96 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany HaddishOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderAl Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Trevor Noah's Literary Guests
264 books — 85 voters
The Premonition by Michael LewisAnatomy of COVID Calamity by Widad AkreyiThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl WigginsFeel Me by James Hudson
COVID-19 Pandemic
151 books — 76 voters

The Arlington Alias by Dorothy May MercerThe Fairfax Fix by Dorothy May MercerSammy's Hill by Kristin GoreThe Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs by Dana BateAll-American Girl by Meg Cabot
DC Fiction
107 books — 74 voters
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Truth by Stephen BriggsWorld War Z by Max Brooks
Journalism in Fiction
234 books — 53 voters

Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootBad Blood by John Carreyrou
Task 5 #ReadHarder 2019
159 books — 48 voters
A Man and His God by Janet E. MorrisWake of the Riddler by Janet E. MorrisMage Blood by Janet E. MorrisWizard Weather by Janet E. MorrisLifted by Evan Ratliff
Best Kindle Singles
40 books — 41 voters

DECEIT v. DECEIT by Vernon BaumrindThe Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana AlexievichIn Other Words by Jhumpa LahiriVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Translated Non-Fiction by Women Authors
230 books — 36 voters
Caste by Isabel WilkersonHappiness Becomes You by Tina TurnerOverground Railroad by Candacy A. TaylorOur Time Is Now by Stacey AbramsWandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins
2020 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
108 books — 33 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonFour Hundred Souls by Ibram X. KendiYou'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber RuffinStuck Improving by Decoteau J. IrbySomebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
2021 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
154 books — 33 voters
We Got the Beat by Jenna MillerFamous Last Words by Jennifer Salvato DoktorskiAsking for Trouble by Sandra ByrdGirl Reporter by Tansy Rayner RobertsSocial Suicide by Gemma Halliday
High School Journalism
98 books — 22 voters

A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves by Jason DeParleDeep Blues by Robert PalmerThings Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse by William NeumanInvisible Child by Andrea ElliottShe Said by Jodi Kantor
Journalism - The New York Times
165 books — 16 voters
All the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinA Very Stable Genius by Philip RuckerFear by Bob WoodwardRage by Bob WoodwardVeil by Bob Woodward
Journalism - The Washington Post
100 books — 16 voters

Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. GreenSee Me Naked by Tara T. GreenYou Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale HurstonFinding Me by Viola DavisBlack Flora by Teresa J. Speight
2022 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
111 books — 16 voters
Asking for a Friend by Kara H.L. ChenDear Wendy by Ann ZhaoDear Student by Elly SwartzDear Sweet Pea by Julie MurphyMiss Fortune Cookie by Lauren Bjorkman
Advice Columnists in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
42 books — 15 voters

Little Black Dresses, Little White Lies by Laura StamplerAt First Blush by Beth Ellyn SummerSummer Intern by Carrie Doyle KarasyovThe Intern by Gabrielle TozerGloss by Marilyn Kaye
YA Internships
74 books — 13 voters
Grunt by Mary RoachSpy... for Nobody! by Basel Saneebجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel SaneebHamilton by Lin-Manuel MirandaThe Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth
Non-Fiction Listed on LitHub's Bookmarks --Part III
102 books — 13 voters

Red Famine by Anne ApplebaumGulag by Anne ApplebaumIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumI Contain Multitudes by Ed YongAre We Rome? by Cullen Murphy
Journalism - The Atlantic
63 books — 10 voters
Herblock’s Here and Now by Herbert BlockUp Front by Bill MauldinWillie & Joe by Bill MauldinHerblock by Herbert Block"A Very Stable Genius!" by Mike Luckovich
Editorial cartoons
81 books — 8 voters

Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. GreenWho Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.See Me Naked by Tara T. GreenHow to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald WalkerShe Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2020s
32 books — 8 voters
Asking for Trouble by Sandra ByrdA Little Trouble with the Facts by Nina SiegalThe Imperfectionists by Tom RachmanScoop by Evelyn WaughThe Girl is Trouble by Kathryn Miller Haines
Newspapers
48 books — 6 voters

Becoming Ms. Burton by Susan BurtonAfrican-American Inventions That Changed The World by Michael A. CarsonFrederick Douglass in Brooklyn by Frederick DouglassMy Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott KingThe Meaning of Michelle by Veronica Chambers
2017 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
54 books — 5 voters
The Art of Fact by Kevin KerraneWhoredom In Kimmage by Rosemary MahoneyReporting Always by Lillian RossWorld, the World by Norman LewisBeyond the Game by Gary Smith
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
58 books — 2 voters

And It Begins Like This by LaTanya McQueenThe Source of Self-Regard by Toni MorrisonBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Book of Delights by Ross GayBlack Ink by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2010s
31 books — 2 voters
Langston Hughes by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Alice Walker by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Zora Neale Hurston by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Gloria Naylor by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Richard Wright by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 1990s
16 books — 2 voters

This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter MosleyIn Search Of Hannah Crafts by Henry Louis Gates Jr.South of Tradition by Trudier HarrisThe Devil and Dave Chappelle by William Jelani CobbForgotten Readers by Elizabeth McHenry
Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2000s
21 books — 1 voter
Ajay and the Mumbai Sun by Varsha ShahThe Frank Frankie by Ingrid JonachSadiq and the Newspaper Problem by Siman NuuraliWrite On, Callie Jones by Naomi ZuckerThe Newspaper Club by Beth Vrabel
School Newspapers and Younger Journalists
21 books — 1 voter

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