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Literary Journalism Books

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

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanNothing to Envy by Barbara DemickHow the Word Is Passed by Clint SmithNo Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
The 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century
52 books — 6 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteJourney to the West by Biao WangThe Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie Neville
Best Narrative Nonfiction
204 books — 190 voters

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Groups Tagged "Literary Journalism"

Join longform nonfiction writers Adam Piore (Newsweek) Erika Hayasaki (Los Angeles Times) and Ma…more
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