Journalism: Reading List
Nonfiction
- All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross
- All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
- All The President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- America’s Mom: The Life, Lessons, and Legacy of Ann Landers by Rick Kogan
- The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism by Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda (editors)
- The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
- Ava’s Man by Rick Bragg
- Be True to Your School: A Diary of 1964 by Bob Greene
- Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg
- Blood Libel: The Inside Story of General Ariel Sharon’s History-Making Suit Against Time Magazine by Uri Dan
- The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
- Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
- Brinkley’s Beat: People, Places, and Events that Shaped My Time by David Brinkley
- Completely MAD: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine by Maria Reidelbach
- Deadlines and Datelines by Dan Rather
- A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston
- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death by Laurence Gonzales
- Devil in the WhiteCity: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
- Dispatches by Michael Herr
- Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper
- Drew Pearson Diaries: 1949-1959 by Tyler Abell (ed.)
- E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers by Gerald J. Baldasty
- Fear and Loathing:On the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
- Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter by Siobhan Darrow
- Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America’s Most Scandalous President by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
- The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine by Michael MacCambridge
- Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger
- Friendly Fire: The Remarkable Story of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq, Rescued by an Italian Secret Service Agent, and Shot by U.S. Forces by Giuliana Sgrena
- From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years with National Geographic by Thomas B. Canby
- Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times by Helen Thomas
- Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports by Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada
- The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana by Harry J. Maihafer
- A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee
- The Good Times by Russell Baker
- The Great American Magazine: An Inside History of Life by Loudon Wainwright
- Growing Up by Russell Baker
- Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words by John Man
- Hate Mail from Cheerleaders: And Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly by Rick Reilly
- Helen Steiner Rice: Ambassador of Sunshine by Ronald Pollitt and Virginia Wiltse
- Henry and Clare: An Intimate Portrait of the Luces by Ralph G. Martin
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- Henry R. Luce: A Political Portrait of the Man Who Created the American Century by Robert E. Herzstein
- Hold On, Mr. President by Sam Donaldson
- A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind
- I’ll Always Have Paris: A Memoir by Art Buchwald
- In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
- In Search of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt.Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children by Katherine Paterson
- Jim Murray: An Autobiography by Jim Murray
- Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg by Christopher Ogden
- A Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt
- Lincoln’s Journalist: John Hay’s Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864 by Michael Burlingame (ed.)
- Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World’s War Zones by Peter Arnett
- Luce and His Empire by W.A. Swanberg
- A Man from Maine by Edward William Bok
- The Man Who was Vogue: The Life and Times of Condé Nast by Caroline Seebohm
- A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl by Mariane Pearl
- The Model Man: A Life of Edward William Bok by Hans Krabbendam
- Muckraking!: The Journalism that Changed America by Judith and William Serrin (editors)
- Murrow: His Life and Times by A.M. Sperber
- Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR’s Correspondent Anne Garrels by Anne Garrels
- Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Old Friends by Tracy Kidder
- The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
- The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz
- Personal History by Katharine Graham
- A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Page by Kay Mills
- The Pulitzer Diaries: Inside America’s Greatest Prize by John Hohenberg
- The Pulitzer Prize: The Inside Story of America’s Most Prestigious Award by J. Douglas Bates
- The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein
- A Reporter’s Life by Walter Cronkite
- Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It by Mike Hoyt, John Palattella and Columbia Journalism Review
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- Rupert Murdoch by Jerome Tuccille
- School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a TopAmericanHigh School by Edward Humes
- A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers by John Feinstein
- Sincerely, Andy Rooney by Andrew A. Rooney
- Tell Them I Didn’t Cry: A Young Journalist’s Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq by Jackie Spinner and Jenny Spinner
- Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
- Tell Them I Didn’t Cry: A Young Journalist’s Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq by Jackie Spinner
- This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV by Bob Schieffer
- Time: D-Day, 24 Hours that Saved the World by the editors of Time Magazine
- Transition Game: How Hoosiers Went Hip-Hop by L.Jon Wertheim
- Treason: How a Russian Spy Led an American Journalist to a U.S. Double Agent by Bill Powell
- Uphill Walkers: Memoir of a Family by Madeleine Blais
- Who Killed CBS?: The Undoing of America’s Number One News Network by Peter J. Boyer
- Winning Pulitzers: The Stories Behind Some of the Best News Coverage of Our Time by Karen Rothmyer
- Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
- Any titles by Molly Ivins
Fiction
- The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
- The Fabulist: A Novel by Stephen Glass
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey
- A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Articles
- “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” by Gay Talese (Esquire, April 1966)
- “The Silent Season of the Hero” by Guy Talese (Esquire, July 1966)