Announcing the tag for March

[Anita]

The vote for the March tag started out as a neck and neck race between relationships and journalism. But it really didn't end that way. Especially when considering the second place votes from the essay proponents.

One tag surged into the lead, and that was our member-nominated tag of:

journalism

Please share your reading plans and recommendations below.

Remember, for the regular monthly reads, the book can be shelved as journalism on Goodreads, or be a book that is not yet shelved that way but you feel should be.

One way to find books to read for this tag is to please visit:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

We encourage people to link to additional lists below if they find them.

Happy reading!

[Tracy]

I’m going to read The White Album by Joan Didion.

[Joanne]

Sorry your pick lost, but journalism was my pick! So I am a happy camper! I believe I am going to start off with 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

back later with some recommendations

[Amy]

I am going to read Unbelievable - My front row seat to the Craziest Campaign in History. The Journalist who trailed Trump when no one believed this could possibly happen.

[Hilde]

I think I'm going to try to get closer to finishing off series I have going, so probably going for the next one in the Millenium series which is Mannen som jaget sin egen skygge/The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

[[deleted user]]

I'm surprised this won - I was expecting relationships! However I'm glad it did.

After enjoying Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup last year, and Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients in January, I'm going with Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America. Hopefully the 5 stars will continue with this medical journalism book!

[Theresa]

I have read a lot of good books by journalists. And while I wanted essays, journalism was my second choice. I don't know what I will read from my TBR because I have a few goodies there, but I recommend from what I have read in the past:

A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal by Åsne Seierstad. Also her The Bookseller of Kabul.

The Gates of Damascus by Lieve Joris.

[Hilde]

Theresa wrote: "I have read a lot of good books by journalists. And while I wanted essays, journalism was my second choice. I don't know what I will read from my TBR because I have a few goodies there, but I recom..."

Since you mentioned Åsne Seierstad, I can also recommend To søstre/Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey into the Syrian Jihad, an account of two Norwegian girls turning extremists fleeing to Syria.

En av oss: en fortelling om Norge/One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway is also suppose to be very good, but I havenæt work up the stomach to read it (yet), hits to close to home (I'm Norwegian).

Basically, everything she's written is good, she is an extremely talented journalist.

[Theresa]

Hilde wrote: "Theresa wrote: "I have read a lot of good books by journalists. And while I wanted essays, journalism was my second choice. I don't know what I will read from my TBR because I have a few goodies th..."

I agree that she is a gifted writer! I definitely have another by her on my next by author shelf.

[Joanne]

Jenny-I have another one for you-The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.-Good enough that I wanted to jump through the pages and slap a few people

[Joanne]

Some recommendations:

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.
Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
The White Darkness

[Nicole R]

Yes!! I will be reading Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.

For those who haven't read it yet, I whole-heartedly recommend Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.

[Booknblues]

I'm pleased journalism won, but not sure what I am going to read as I had several on my tbr that I want to read.

I would recommend:Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal which I read last year and The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl which I just completed.

[[deleted user]]

thanks Joanne - just added to my wishlist!

[Jgrace]

I have three mental lists; books by journalists, books about journalists and fictional journalists.

Books by journalists I can recommend:
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
The Things They Carried
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Fictional Journalists:
The Help
The Wind Is Not a River
The Truth ( a Discworld take on 'free press')
The Women of the Copper Country


I want to read several very current event books, but I'm also thinking of
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism

Depends on what I can get from the library.

[Jen K]

My second choice but a close second. I really enjoy journalism books and am excited by so many great options!

I recommend:
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
The Shadow of the Sun
The Zanzibar Chest
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

I second:
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

[Joanne]

I second, from Jen K's list Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

[Elise]

I thought I was going to skip this one since I went through pages and pages of the shelf without a single book on my TBR, but then I relized I have a few unread books on my physical shelves that ay fit this tag.

Born Survivors by Wendy Holden.
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe.
Becoming by Michelle Obama.

Any recs for those three or reasons why they shouldn't be included?

[Anita]

I'm leaning toward Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster.

Though Jenny did remind about Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America which also sounds interesting to me.

Others that were five star reads for me:
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Anything by John Krakauer
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

[Joi]

Definitely want to read
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America aka the "other" Unbelievable

If I can do a 2nd I have these on my radar:
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
In Cold Blood
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Also recommending
Anything by Jon Ronson
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
For true crime lovers: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

[Hebah]

Hmm. Not much out here for me this month, but maybe I'll finally get to Dear Mrs. Bird. I'll have to stalk for some lists of fictional journalists...

Here's one, Books by or about a journalist from the Popsugar 2020 challenge, which turns up The Broken Girls, recommended to me by a library patron some time ago.

Journalism in Fiction is a hearty 194-book list, reminding me that I never finished Mira's Grant's Newsflesh trilogy, which follows a team of bloggers in a zombie apocalypse. And there are a few romances in the list too.

For the spec fic folks, there's Journalist Protagonists in Paranormal Fiction, including some graphic novels.

We also have Journalists and Reporters in Cozy Mysteries if that's your jam.

[LibraryCin]

I have a few I could read, but I'll likely go with:
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story / Michael Hainey

[LibraryCin]

If anyone wants more murder/mystery/thriller types, Fiona Barton's books will fit. I've just finished "The Widow" and will post my review soon. One of the main characters in the series is a reporter.

The Widow
The Child
The Suspect

[LibraryCin]

Jenny wrote: "I'm surprised this won - I was expecting relationships! However I'm glad it did...."

I was, too! We usually choose the broadest topics, but it's nice to see a more narrow one make the cut this time!

[LibraryCin]

Anita wrote: "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Anything by John Krakauer..."

I'm going to second these recommendations!

[Charlie]

I am going to read The Jungle.

I highly recommend either The Imperfectionistsor The Forever War.

Anyone else laugh at the irony (and odds) of "Journalism" following "Survival" as the monthly tag...

[Ellen]

I plan to read:

Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Highly recommend:

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster - John Krakauer
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

[Ellen]

Anyone else laugh at the irony (and odds) of "Journalis..."

That's a good one, Charlie!

[Lyn]

I am very pleased with this choice. My F2F book group has Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana lined up for March. Works perfect for me!

[Theresa]

Hebah wrote: "Hmm. Not much out here for me this month, but maybe I'll finally get to Dear Mrs. Bird. I'll have to stalk for some lists of fictional journalists...

Here's one, Books by or about ..."

That was my suggestion for Popsugar Challenge prompt! There are a ton of options for fiction either written by journalists (this month's buddy read of The Lost Vinyard) or about them (Paula MacLain's Love & Ruin about Martha Gelhart and Hemingway). It is kind of astounding really. As someone who isn't much into reading non-fiction, I gravitate to those.

[Amy]

Love and Ruin is a perfect read.

[Theresa]

Amy wrote: "Love and Ruin is a perfect read."

Also The Paris Wife by Paula McLain because it does include a lot about Hemingway and his journalism, and journalism at that time.

[Karin]

Ah, my second choice. Now I'm off to see what I'll read.

On the one hand, I feel badly for Anita who loves essays, but on the other hand, I didn't vote for it since I usually prefer to read essays singly rather than in collections.

Anita - on page two of Journalism is a book called Lobsters and other Essays

[KateNZ]

Delighted with the win, though I confess I went for essays since I’d just finished Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies, and two Jon Krakauer books (Into The Wild, and Under The Banner of Heaven) in quick succession and was puzzling over what else to pick for journalism. But there’s so much to choose from - so I’m going for ‘The Woman Who Smashed Codes’, which I bought recently.

[Michael]

I would like to read Maddow's "Blowout" and Didion's "Miami".
I also would like to read de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" for the tag. It sounds like it would qualify as journalism, but no one tags it as such. Opinions?

Recommendations:
--fictional characters:
The Foreign Correspondent--Alan Furst
The Shipping News--Annie Proulx
The Quiet American--Graham Greene
Night Film--Marisha Pessl
Pereira Declares: A Testimony--Antonio Tabucchi

--non-fiction:
What I tag journalism involves traveling around interviewing people or digging into documents to elucidate a contemporary subject; often in the writing the result can overlap with travel, memoir, or essay tags,

Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel--Carl Safina
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History--Elizabeth Kolbert
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide--Nicholas Kristof
War--Sebastian Junger
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex--May Roach
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court--Jeffrey Toobin
Hitch 22: A Memoir--Christopher Hitchens
Slouching Towards Bethlehem--Joan Didion
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill--Robert Whitaker
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession--Susan Orlean

I also second "Beyond the Beautiful Forevers" as a great read.

[Theresa]

Ooh, and don't forget The Feather Thief which reads like a thriller but is true crime written by a journalist.

[Nicole D.]

EVERYBODY should read The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Also recommend The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story

if The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History comes in from the library (it should) I'll be listening to that

[NancyJ]

March Journalism tag

News of the World

Into the Wild - it fit every tag this year so far!

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science

The Shipping News

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Also.. Just Mercy, Bonk, The orchid thief (I loved the movie Adaptation), and more.

[NancyJ]

Michael wrote: "I would like to read Maddow's "Blowout" and Didion's "Miami".
I also would like to read de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" for the tag. It sounds like it would qualify as journalism, but no o..."

Great list Michael. I think de Tocqueville was considered a scholar (thinker and historian) rather than a journalist. That might explain the missing tag. I have a lot of nonfiction that wouldn’t qualify as journalism.

[Idit]

I'm surprised. and happy
Just finished Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster which was interesting and was happy for more journalism books.

More books I thought were superb:
- Hiroshima
- In Cold Blood
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
- Selling Hitler
on the fiction front:
- Nights at the Circus can fit - as one of the main characters is a journalist interviewing the other
- Scoop (although I prefer other book by Evelyn Waugh - Scoop is worth reading
- I also enjoyed The Shipping News

I'm considering reading any of these:
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (a copy of which I've found in the street
- Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
- All the President's Men
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic - I read a third, it was exceptional, but so so sad I had to stop for a while
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (on my shelves and have been there so many years)
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (so long though)
- The Journalist and the Murderer

[Holly R W]

I recently read She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, which was excellent.

For March, I'm considering: Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life. Also, Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable Truths. The second book is by journalist Connie Schultz whose writing and outlook I like.

[Michael]

Great suggestions, Idit, on Hiroshima, Eichmann in Jerusalem, and Electic Koolaid Acid Test.

[Joanne]

Theresa wrote: "Ooh, and don't forget The Feather Thief which reads like a thriller but is true crime written by a journalist."

Oh! I did not know that. I have it on the Tumbling Tower and it fits Polls!-Now to see if I can fit it into SRC!

[DianeMP]

Journalism won! Happy and excited! Narrative nonfiction is one of my favorite types of genres. Lots of excellent choices and a few recommendations.

Recommendations
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
All the President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein

What I plan to read
Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
Game Change by John Heilemann
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

[Kimber]

I'm very happy with the journalism tag. I enjoy reading books written by journalists on a variety of topics. And there are so many good recommendations already!

My recommendations that I don't believe have been mentioned yet:

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Detroit: An American Autopsy

I've got my eye on Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, which I own. And I'll be heading out later on this beautiful, sunny, 44 degree Fahrenheit, Michigan day to visit the beach, and then the library to look for:

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

[Anita]

Karin wrote: "Ah, my second choice. Now I'm off to see what I'll read.

On the one hand, I feel badly for Anita who loves essays, but on the other hand, I didn't vote for it since I usually prefer to read essays..."

Lol, I like journalism. I just had a good book for essays that I wanted to get to. And then someone kindly pointed out my book would also work for relationships.

So of course, we get journalism, but the many suggestions here are so good. I've got plenty of choices.

[Anita]

Charlie wrote: "I am going to read The Jungle.

I highly recommend either The Imperfectionistsor The Forever War.

Anyone else laugh at the irony (and odds) of "Journalis..."

The Imperfectionists is a perfect fiction book for this tag if people are seeking a novel.

[Joanne]

Picked up 2 today from the library that I am going start with

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast-could take me all month @ 736 pages

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

[LibraryCin]

Nicole D. wrote: "EVERYBODY should read The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism..."

I am taking a look at this one now. The title appeals to me, for sure! (This likely wouldn't be for next month, but may just be added to the tbr for sometime later on.)

[LibraryCin]

Idit wrote: "- Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster..."

This one's quite good!