What are the top book recommendations for 'journalistic documentary'?
We found 121 book recommendations
What do readers say about In Cold Blood?
journalistic & documentary pure and simple true crime thriller methodical, journalistic, factualThe chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics.
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.” Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its...
See 1789 Book Recommendations like In Cold Blood
What do readers say about The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?
stream of consciousness the hippie lifestyle drugs and hippies lurid and descriptive proseOne of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.
This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and ... More details on The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
THAT’S GOOD THINKING THERE, COOL BREEZE, COOL BREEZE is a kid with three or four days’ beard sitting next to me on the stamped metal bottom of the open back part of a pickup truck. Bouncing along. Dip...
See 279 Book Recommendations like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
What do readers say about World War Z?
interview style narrative humor & satire a zombie story cold, factual, un-like nature#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies."-Entertainment Weekly
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terri... More details on World War Z
[At its prewar height, this region boasted a population of over thirty-five million people. Now, there are barely fifty thousand. Reconstruction funds have been slow to arrive in this part of the coun...
See 2425 Book Recommendations like World War Z
What do readers say about Bad Blood?
a multibillion-dollar biotech startup very easy to read the story is fascinating business getting ahead of product validityNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos-one of the biggest corporate frauds in history-a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. ... More details on Bad Blood
The former IBM executive was in charge of bioinformatics at Theranos, a startup with a cutting-edge blood-testing system. The company had just completed its first big live demonstration for a pharmace...
See 1190 Book Recommendations like Bad Blood
What do readers say about Say Nothing?
well-researched and written a necessary, tragic book the troubles in ireland readable, deeply researched historyJean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, ... More details on Say Nothing
Jean McConville was thirty-eight when she disappeared, and she had spent nearly half her life either pregnant or recovering from childbirth. She brought fourteen children to term and lost four of them...
See 736 Book Recommendations like Say Nothing
What do readers say about Catch and Kill?
the weinstein case a true thriller an engrossing memoir a spy novelOne of the Best Books of the Year
Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal
In 2017, a routi... More details on Catch and Kill
For Weinstein, the months before the 2016 presidential election looked like business as usual. There he was, at a cocktail party for William J. Bratton, the former New York City police commissioner. T...
See 301 Book Recommendations like Catch and Kill
What do readers say about I'll Be Gone in the Dark?
fascinating and bone-chilling very well researched book a magazine article true crime reportingFor more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some ... More details on I'll Be Gone in the Dark
AFTER PROCESSING THE HOUSE, THE POLICE SAID TO DREW WITTHUHN, “It’s yours.” The yellow tape came down; the front door closed. The impassive precision of badges at work had helped divert attention from...
See 655 Book Recommendations like I'll Be Gone in the Dark
What do readers say about The Devil in the White City?
easy to digest mystery and intrigue nonfiction historical book america's first serial killerNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
"Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonf... More details on The Devil in the White City
THE DATE WAS APRIL 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite 63–65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it. What he did know was that his foot hurt badly, more than he ...
See 1962 Book Recommendations like The Devil in the White City
What do readers say about Killers of the Flower Moon?
matter of fact well researched and meticulous historical crime book told a storyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Lost City of Z.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in... More details on Killers of the Flower Moon
In April, millions of tiny flowers spread over the blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Oklahoma. There are Johnny-jump-ups and spring beauties and little bluets. The Osage writ...
See 1106 Book Recommendations like Killers of the Flower Moon
What do readers say about Under the Banner of Heaven?
religion based violence the power of religion tedious and poorly organized modern day murdersThis extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake ... More details on Under the Banner of Heaven
And it shall come to pass that I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the scepter of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth shall utter words, eternal wor...
See 653 Book Recommendations like Under the Banner of Heaven
Please Help Us Improve