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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.40 — 289,063 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,633 ratings — published 2019
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.53 — 150,984 ratings — published 2021
The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,835 ratings — published 2000
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.95 — 159,940 ratings — published 2011
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.47 — 194,904 ratings — published 2018
All the President’s Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,239 ratings — published 1974
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.09 — 755,282 ratings — published 1966
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,987 ratings — published 2001
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 11 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,828 ratings — published 2001
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.14 — 470,264 ratings — published 2017
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,750 ratings — published 2013
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,565 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,343 ratings — published 2018
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.12 — 60,707 ratings — published 2015
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.33 — 44,795 ratings — published 2019
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.11 — 271,870 ratings — published 2018
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.41 — 57,418 ratings — published 2017
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.93 — 66,741 ratings — published 2015
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,138 ratings — published 2003
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.31 — 174,789 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.06 — 248,601 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.13 — 828,077 ratings — published 2010
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.90 — 115,600 ratings — published 2009
When McKinsey Comes to Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.80 — 12,203 ratings — published 2022
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.44 — 113,876 ratings — published 2015
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,735 ratings — published 2020
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,726 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,334 ratings — published 2016
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,005,224 ratings — published 2006
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,224,629 ratings — published 1996
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,696 ratings — published 2022
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,379 ratings — published 2020
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,341 ratings — published 2019
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,603 ratings — published 2017
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.46 — 105,103 ratings — published 2009
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,424 ratings — published 2010
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,841 ratings — published 2016
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.14 — 92,618 ratings — published 2014
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,692 ratings — published 2009
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,525,951 ratings — published 2005
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,419 ratings — published 2005
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,311 ratings — published 1994
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.64 — 20,990 ratings — published 2004
Them: Adventures with Extremists (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,291 ratings — published 2001
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.29 — 77,833 ratings — published 2026
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,742 ratings — published 2023
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.17 — 22,918 ratings — published 2025
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,559 ratings — published 2024
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.25 — 846,156 ratings — published 2020
“She watched the clip several times—enough times to know w certainty her father had nothing to do with the crash. He’d done everything in his power to stop the car and avoid the truck. Someone else had been driving.”
― Crossover
― Crossover
“No one can find what they do not seek.”
― The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran
― The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran
