84 books
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51 voters
Investigative Reporting Books
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.40 — 285,520 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,746 ratings — published 2019
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.11 — 268,139 ratings — published 2018
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.12 — 59,840 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.13 — 817,502 ratings — published 2010
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.36 — 67,943 ratings — published 2019
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,694 ratings — published 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.14 — 459,078 ratings — published 2017
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,208,621 ratings — published 1996
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,261 ratings — published 2022
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.41 — 55,515 ratings — published 2017
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,258 ratings — published 2009
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.90 — 113,146 ratings — published 2009
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,439 ratings — published 2013
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.95 — 158,808 ratings — published 2011
All the President’s Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.18 — 58,598 ratings — published 1974
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.50 — 22,054 ratings — published 2024
The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,873 ratings — published 2024
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.54 — 143,021 ratings — published 2021
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,087 ratings — published 2023
Drift
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,158 ratings — published 2012
Night Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.78 — 96,690 ratings — published 2013
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.77 — 26,946 ratings — published 2019
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,210 ratings — published 1998
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.07 — 46,568 ratings — published 2018
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,697 ratings — published 2018
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,584 ratings — published 2018
Ape House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.51 — 30,558 ratings — published 2010
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.01 — 228,696 ratings — published 2003
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,986 ratings — published 2003
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,304 ratings — published 2009
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.09 — 743,568 ratings — published 1966
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,743 ratings — published 2013
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,375 ratings — published 1906
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,340 ratings — published 2016
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,844 ratings — published 2026
December 6th: From the Montreal Massacre to Gun Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 1999
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,221 ratings — published 2000
Post Mortem (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.65 — 17 ratings — published 2025
Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,899 ratings — published
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,598 ratings — published 2011
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.11 — 14,507 ratings — published 2014
Among the Thugs (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,570 ratings — published 1990
The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,184 ratings — published 1994
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.90 — 49,777 ratings — published 2025
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.30 — 203,307 ratings — published 2024
Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,146 ratings — published 2021
Fletch (Fletch, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,140 ratings — published 1974
201st Squadron: The Aztec Eagles: The History of the Mexican Pilots Who Fought in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published
Confess, Fletch (Fletch, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as investigative-reporting)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,994 ratings — published 1976
“We’ve got to go to the police,” Alec repeated. He wondered if somebody was actually dead or if the vicar had imagined it. But then there was the bloody cassock.
“Come with me,” Father Joe pleaded. “It’s just down the road in my vestry. And then we can decide what we should do about the police.”
Alec thought he might as well. There might be a story in it if it was something to do with Charlotte de Tournet. Would people remember her disappearance? It was so long ago. But then there was the connection to Baroness Freya Saumures …”
― The Wasp Trap
“Come with me,” Father Joe pleaded. “It’s just down the road in my vestry. And then we can decide what we should do about the police.”
Alec thought he might as well. There might be a story in it if it was something to do with Charlotte de Tournet. Would people remember her disappearance? It was so long ago. But then there was the connection to Baroness Freya Saumures …”
― The Wasp Trap






