55 books
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6 voters
Investigative Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,182
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.40 — 285,449 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,726 ratings — published 2019
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.54 — 142,792 ratings — published 2021
The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,020 ratings — published 2000
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.95 — 158,762 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 — 179,740 ratings — published 2018
All the President’s Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.18 — 58,578 ratings — published 1974
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.09 — 743,209 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 — 206,789 ratings — published 2001
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 11 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,244 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 — 458,753 ratings — published 2017
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.07 — 46,539 ratings — published 2018
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,433 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 — 38,875 ratings — published 2018
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.12 — 59,824 ratings — published 2015
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.34 — 44,394 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 — 268,041 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 — 55,451 ratings — published 2017
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.93 — 66,272 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 — 28,539 ratings — published 2003
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.30 — 173,057 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.06 — 244,451 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.13 — 817,176 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 — 113,068 ratings — published 2009
When McKinsey Comes to Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,834 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 — 110,646 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 — 5,669 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 — 4,634 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,313 ratings — published 2016
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.26 — 996,300 ratings — published 2006
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,208,171 ratings — published 1996
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,245 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 4.04 — 39,158 ratings — published 2019
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,134 ratings — published 2017
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,244 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 — 119,051 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 — 27,546 ratings — published 2016
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.14 — 91,700 ratings — published 2014
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,208 ratings — published 2009
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,488,374 ratings — published 2005
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,127 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 — 123,314 ratings — published 1994
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.64 — 20,733 ratings — published 2004
Them: Adventures with Extremists (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,056 ratings — published 2001
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,491 ratings — published 2023
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.16 — 20,000 ratings — published 2025
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.36 — 51,847 ratings — published 2024
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,219 ratings — published 2022
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.25 — 810,576 ratings — published 2020
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,984 ratings — published 2020
“…You’re throwing us away because you’re afraid to let yourself fall in love. You’re searching for something that isn’t real. You’re not Eric Stone. He’s your protagonist. Eric Stone is make-believe and life isn’t an adventure novel.”
― 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












