Top 100 Journalism Books

• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans – 1941
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer – 1960
• The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman – 1962
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley – 1965
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – 1966
• The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse – 1973
• All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein – 1974
• All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein – 1974
• A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman – 1978
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe – 1979
• The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman – 1984
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks – 1985
• Beloved by Toni Morrison – 1987
• A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan – 1988
• A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr – 1995
• Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, America’s Greatest Spy Catcher by Peter Maas – 1995
• An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks – 1995
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman – 1997
• The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis – 1997
• King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild – 1998
• Blind Man’s Bluff: The Secret History of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew – 1998
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – 2000
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson – 2003
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach – 2003
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – 2005
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell – 2005
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan – 2006
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell – 2008
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande – 2009
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot – 2010
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson – 2010
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander – 2010
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee – 2010
• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach – 2010
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari – 2011
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – 2011
• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell – 2013
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson – 2014
• The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert – 2014
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande – 2014
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates – 2015
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond – 2016
• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance – 2016

References

1. https://www.shortform.com/best-books/genre/best-journalism-books-of-all-time
2. https://bookauthority.org/books/best-journalism-books
3. https://www.gq.com/story/50-best-literary-journalism-books
4. https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/news/the-top-100-works-of-journalism-of-the-century/
5. https://rasmuskleisnielsen.net/2019/09/27/100-inspiring-books-on-journalism/