4.05 avg rating — 89,262 ratings

"- John Hersey. "Hiroshima." 1946"

4.06 avg rating — 54,831 ratings

"- Rachel Carson. "Silent Spring." 1962"

3.94 avg rating — 290 ratings

"- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Watergate investigations for the Washington Post. 1972-73"

4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings

"- Edward R. Murrow. "This is London . . ." radio reports for CBS on the German bombing of London. Also collected in book form. 1940"

3.91 avg rating — 249 ratings

"- Ida Tarbell. "The History of the Standard Oil Company" investigation. 1902-1904 (book 1904)"

3.77 avg rating — 94 ratings

"- Lincoln Steffens. "The Shame of the Cities." 1902-1904 (book 1904)"

3.94 avg rating — 7,813 ratings

"- John Reed. "Ten Days That Shook the World." 1919"

4.16 avg rating — 310 ratings

"- H.L. Mencken. Coverage of the Scopes "monkey" trial. 1925"

4.46 avg rating — 276 ratings

"- Ernie Pyle. Reports from Europe and the Pacific during World War II. 1940-45"

3.81 avg rating — 484 ratings

"- Seymour Hersh. Investigation of massacre committed by American soldiers at My Lai in Vietnam. 1969"

3.97 avg rating — 544 ratings

"- New York Times. Publication of the Pentagon Papers. 1971"

3.97 avg rating — 4,020 ratings

"- James Agee and Walker Evans. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." 1941"

4.31 avg rating — 44,870 ratings

"- W.E.B. DuBois. "The Souls of Black Folk." 1903"

4.26 avg rating — 77 ratings

"- I.F. Stone. I.F. Stones Weekly. 1953-67"

3.92 avg rating — 78,981 ratings

"- Tom Wolfe. "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." 1968"

3.61 avg rating — 3,447 ratings

"- Norman Mailer. "The Armies of the Night." 1968"

4.20 avg rating — 33,333 ratings

"- Hannah Arendt. "Eichmann in Jerusalem." 1963"

4.34 avg rating — 6,467 ratings

"- William Shirer. "Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondant, 1939-1941." 1941"

4.09 avg rating — 728,041 ratings

"- Truman Capote. "In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences." 1965"

4.18 avg rating — 82,704 ratings

"- Joan Didion. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (collected essays). 1968"

3.76 avg rating — 3,569 ratings

"- Tom Wolfe. "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby." 1965"

4.22 avg rating — 21,693 ratings

"- Michael Herr. "Dispatches." 1977"

4.15 avg rating — 7,947 ratings

"- Theodore White. "The Making of the President: 1960." 1961"

4.32 avg rating — 2,761 ratings

"- J. Anthony Lukas. "Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families." 1985"

4.37 avg rating — 38 ratings

"- Richard Harding Davis. Coverage of German march into Belgium. 1914"

4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings

"- Dorothy Thompson. Reports on the rise of Hitler in Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post. 1931-34"

3.95 avg rating — 1,581 ratings

"- John Steinbeck. Reports on Okie migrant camp life for the San Francisco News. 1936"

4.34 avg rating — 59 ratings

"- A.J. Liebling. "The Road Back to Paris." 1944"

3.96 avg rating — 744 ratings

"- Ernest Hemingway. Journalistic reports on the Spanish Civil War. 1937-38"

4.31 avg rating — 1,291 ratings

"- Martha Gellhorn. "The Face of War." 1959"

4.55 avg rating — 120,656 ratings

"- James Baldwin. "The Fire Next Time." 1963"

4.33 avg rating — 4,257 ratings

"- Joseph Mitchell. "Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories." 1992"

3.87 avg rating — 30,886 ratings

"- Betty Friedan. "The Feminine Mystique." 1963"

3.70 avg rating — 267 ratings

"- Ralph Nader. "Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile." 1965"

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

"- Herblock. Political cartoons. 1950"

4.36 avg rating — 4,803 ratings

"- James Baldwin. "Letter from the South: Nobody Knows My Name." 1959"

4.22 avg rating — 175 ratings

"- Pauline Kael. "Trash, Art, and the Movies." 1969"

4.41 avg rating — 506 ratings

"- Gay Talese. "Fame and Obscurity: Portraits by Gay Talese." 1970"

4.39 avg rating — 29,259 ratings

"- Randy Shilts. Reporting on AIDS. 1981-85"

4.27 avg rating — 56 ratings

"- Janet Flanner (Genet). "Paris Journals" in The New Yorker. 1944-45"

4.24 avg rating — 12,543 ratings

"- Neil Sheehan. "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam." 1988"

4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings

"- A. J. Liebling. "The Wayward Pressman." 1947"

4.23 avg rating — 55,604 ratings

"- Tom Wolfe. "The Right Stuff." 1979"

4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings

"- Murray Kempton. "America Comes of Middle Age: Columns 1950-1962." 1963"

3.99 avg rating — 88 ratings

"- Murray Kempton. "Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties." 1955"

4.09 avg rating — 175 ratings

"- Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. Philadelphia Inquirer series: "America: What Went Wrong." 1991"

4.36 avg rating — 10,046 ratings

"- Taylor Branch. "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63." 1988"

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings

"- Harrison Salisbury. Reporting from the Soviet Union for the New York Times. 1949-54"

4.44 avg rating — 747 ratings

"- John McPhee. "The John McPhee Reader." 1976"

4.26 avg rating — 5,336 ratings

"- David Remnick. "Lenins Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire." 1993"

4.41 avg rating — 3,217 ratings

"- Richard Ben Cramer. "What It Takes: The Way to the White House." 1992"

3.94 avg rating — 304 ratings

"- Jonathan Schell. "The Fate of the Earth." 1982"

4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings

"- Russell Baker. "Francs and Beans," in the New York Times. 1975"

3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings

"- Homer Bigart. Account in the New York Herald-Tribune of being over Japan in a bomber when World War II came to an end. 1945"

3.86 avg rating — 227 ratings

"- Ben Hecht. Series of columns: "1001 Afternoons in Chicago." 1922"

3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings

"- Walter Lippmann. Early essays for the New Republic. 1914"

4.63 avg rating — 38 ratings

"- Margaret Bourke-White. Photographs for Life magazine following the defeat of Germany. 1945"

4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings

"- Lillian Ross. "Reporting." 1964"

4.24 avg rating — 791 ratings

"- Nicholas Lemann. "The Promised Land." 1991"

4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings

"- The New Yorker. "The New Yorker Book of War Pieces." 1947"

4.05 avg rating — 23,270 ratings

"- Norman Mailer. "The Executioners Song." 1979"

4.69 avg rating — 70 ratings

"- Robert Capa. Spanish Civil War photos for Life. 1936"

4.14 avg rating — 10,365 ratings

"- Susan Sontag. "Notes on Camp." 1964"

4.18 avg rating — 57,873 ratings

"- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. "All the Presidents Men." 1974"

4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings

"- John Hersey. "Here To Stay." 1963"

4.12 avg rating — 323 ratings

"- A.J. Liebling. "The Earl of Louisiana." 1961"

4.20 avg rating — 4,859 ratings

"- Mike Davis. "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles." 1990"

3.98 avg rating — 1,638 ratings

"- Melissa Fay Greene. "Praying for Sheetrock." 1991"

4.31 avg rating — 483 ratings

"- Joseph Mitchell. "McSorleys Wonderful Saloon." 1943"

4.05 avg rating — 788 ratings

"- Lillian Ross. "Picture." 1952"

4.04 avg rating — 3,575 ratings

"- Greil Marcus. "Mystery Train." 1975"

4.30 avg rating — 757 ratings

"- Leon Dash. "Rosa Lees Story" in the Washington Post. 1994"

4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings

"- Jane Kramer. "The Europeans." 1988"

3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings

"- Jane Kramer. "The Politics of Memory." 1996"

4.15 avg rating — 658,000 ratings

"- Frank McCourt. "Angelas Ashes." 1996"

3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings

"- Vincent Sheean. "Personal History." 1935"

4.20 avg rating — 321 ratings

"- Damon Runyon. Crime reporting. 1926"

3.87 avg rating — 965 ratings

"- Joe McGinniss. "The Selling of the President 1968." 1969"

4.13 avg rating — 24,555 ratings

"- Hunter S. Thompson. "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail." Book. 1973"