2026 Reading Challenge
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Literary Journalism


Literary Journalism Books

In Cold Blood
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Hiroshima
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Into the Wild
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The White Album
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Lists

The Ride by Kostya KennedyAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsBeneath the Bamboo by Stan TaylorTilly by Monique Gray SmithUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Best nonfiction
92 books — 26 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie NevilleInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteJourney to the West by Biao Wang
Best Narrative Nonfiction
184 books — 166 voters

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanNothing to Envy by Barbara DemickNo Good Men Among the Living by Anand GopalThe Unwinding by George Packer
The 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century
51 books — 4 voters
The Art of Fact by Kevin KerraneWhoredom In Kimmage by Rosemary MahoneyReporting Always by Lillian RossWorld, the World by Norman LewisBeyond the Game by Gary Smith
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
58 books — 2 voters

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