Topic
Journalism
10 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
10 posts
Where to Start with Naomi Klein: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Naomi Klein — whether to begin with The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, or No Logo. A complete reading guide to the activist-journalist.
Where to Start with Patrick Radden Keefe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Patrick Radden Keefe — whether to begin with Say Nothing, Empire of Pain, or Rogues. A complete reading guide to the narrative non-fiction journalist.
Where to Start with Sebastian Junger: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Sebastian Junger — whether to begin with The Perfect Storm, War, or Tribe. A complete reading guide to the war journalist and narrative non-fiction author.
Best Narrative Nonfiction Books: Essential True Stories
The best narrative nonfiction books — from The Devil in the White City and Say Nothing to Empire of Pain and The Warmth of Other Suns. Essential true stories.
Where to Start with David Grann: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Grann — whether to begin with Killers of the Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, or The Wager. A complete reading guide to the narrative non-fiction writer.
Where to Start with Erik Larson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Erik Larson — whether to begin with The Devil in the White City, Dead Wake, or In the Garden of Beasts. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jon Krakauer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jon Krakauer — whether to begin with Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, or Under the Banner of Heaven. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Michael Pollan: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michael Pollan — whether to begin with The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, or How to Change Your Mind. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ta-Nehisi Coates — whether to begin with Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, or The Water Dancer. A complete reading guide.
Books Like In Cold Blood: True Crime, Narrative Journalism, and the Criminal Mind
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 Clutter family murders in Kansas — and the killers who committed them — invented the true crime genre and the narrative nonfiction form. These books share its intimacy with violence, its literary ambition, and the moral problem of making art from real suffering.
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