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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.40 — 293,181 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 — 104,968 ratings — published 2019
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.53 — 154,759 ratings — published 2021
The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.41 — 26,140 ratings — published 2000
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,637 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 — 200,798 ratings — published 2018
All the President’s Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,434 ratings — published 1974
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.09 — 760,408 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 — 207,081 ratings — published 2001
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 11 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.66 — 197,041 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 — 474,468 ratings — published 2017
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,615 ratings — published 2018
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,857 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 — 39,842 ratings — published 2018
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.93 — 67,005 ratings — published 2015
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.12 — 61,404 ratings — published 2015
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,403 ratings — published 2003
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.33 — 44,930 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 — 274,030 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 — 58,171 ratings — published 2017
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.31 — 175,592 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,401 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.14 — 833,239 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,230,062 ratings — published 1996
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.90 — 116,528 ratings — published 2009
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,260 ratings — published 2026
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 23,242 ratings — published 2022
When McKinsey Comes to Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.80 — 12,333 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 — 114,920 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 — 5,760 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 — 4,767 ratings — published 2016
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,015 ratings — published 2013
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,010 ratings — published 2016
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.29 — 106,200 ratings — published 2009
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,009,631 ratings — published 2006
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.64 — 21,128 ratings — published 2004
Them: Adventures with Extremists (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,416 ratings — published 2001
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,424 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 — 42,029 ratings — published 2019
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,734 ratings — published 2017
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,203 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 — 120,883 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 — 27,929 ratings — published 2016
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.14 — 92,949 ratings — published 2014
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,539,806 ratings — published 2005
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,556 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 — 125,988 ratings — published 1994
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 — 7,817 ratings — published 2023
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,677 ratings — published 2025
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.35 — 58,955 ratings — published 2024
“In the years that followed, Tsula would find that she could not recall that walk to the edge or the thrust of her legs into the air. Her clearest memory more than twenty years later is of the long, breathless wait as she fell, seemingly forever, and the water swallowing her at last. When she burst from its surface, unhurt, her mind noisy and electric, she grabbed for Jamie and kissed him hard.”
― Twentymile
― Twentymile
“Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.”
― Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
― Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
