7 books
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8 voters
Investigative Books
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.40 — 281,854 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 — 102,521 ratings — published 2019
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.54 — 135,918 ratings — published 2021
The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.41 — 24,113 ratings — published 2000
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.95 — 157,554 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 — 166,493 ratings — published 2018
All the President’s Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.18 — 57,937 ratings — published 1974
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.09 — 729,469 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 — 206,517 ratings — published 2001
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 11 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,499 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 — 446,250 ratings — published 2017
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,585 ratings — published 2018
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.12 — 58,833 ratings — published 2015
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,043 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 — 38,186 ratings — published 2018
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 — 27,998 ratings — published 2003
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.34 — 43,844 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 — 264,147 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 — 53,470 ratings — published 2017
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,839 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.13 — 804,915 ratings — published 2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,091 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,192,618 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 — 110,607 ratings — published 2009
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 — 108,126 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 — 5,588 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 4.08 — 4,512 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,891 ratings — published 2016
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.14 — 90,653 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.06 — 240,286 ratings — published 2003
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.26 — 986,447 ratings — published 2006
When McKinsey Comes to Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,372 ratings — published 2022
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,155 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 — 36,586 ratings — published 2019
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,619 ratings — published 2017
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.46 — 99,692 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 — 117,272 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 — 27,210 ratings — published 2016
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.01 — 225,319 ratings — published 2003
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,473 ratings — published 2009
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,447,614 ratings — published 2005
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,730 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 — 121,526 ratings — published 1994
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.64 — 20,438 ratings — published 2004
Them: Adventures with Extremists (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,807 ratings — published 2001
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,237 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 — 778,525 ratings — published 2020
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,888 ratings — published 2020
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,239 ratings — published 2021
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative)
avg rating 4.37 — 64,904 ratings — published 2019
“The current needs of survival leave little time for luxuries like sentimentality. It is, he figures, a kind of mercy. No time to dwell on what was lost when there is more yet to protect.”
― Twentymile
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