Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup would be a perfect fit here, and it's an excellent book. What other books have you found by or about journalists?

Listopia link: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Michael Finkel was/is a journalist who wrote both True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa and The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit. Both were very well written and had me hooked immediately.

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Jane Harper is a former journalist turned author. I enjoyed The Lost Man, though it has nothing to do with journalism.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer would work for this one.

I will probably read She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.

Might be looking at this list for tips, since I'm not sure it's diversifying enough for me to read Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators twice in two years! Amazing book, though.

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Period by Emma Barnett
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

For anyone who reads YA, Fallout is about a young Lois Lane (she's interning as a journalist in this). I'll probably pick the sequel for this prompt

Loved Blackberry Winter

Sold on a Monday is about a journalist during the Great Depression. I couldn't put it down, and now I'm bummed I read it this year as I'd love to use it for the prompt lol.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers!

I might be reading something by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad. link will follow when I am not on app

I'm planning to read Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced

You could do Unbelievable/A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America for this. Heavy topic.

The Soloist is by a journalist. I started it years ago because I play the cello and loved the movie. Never finished it. Maybe I'll give it another try next year.

Some possibilities from my TBR:

By journalists
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
In Search of King Solomon's Mines
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

About a journalist
Night Film
The Winter Garden Mystery

I'm sure I have more too; I tend to read a fair amount of nonfiction by journalists.

Wasn't Ernest Hemingway a journalist and war correspondent? Yes, a quick Google search agrees. That opens up quite a few:



And lots more...

I've only read The Old Man and the Sea and that was more than 30 years ago. Maybe I'll pick one of his.

Front Page Fatality by Lyndee Walker

War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.
It also has a bird on the cover and was written by someone in their 20s.

Boy Swallows Universe was my book of the year this year. It has a journalist in it AND was written by an Australian Journalist. I can't recommend it highly enough.

I have a LOT of these. For some reason, I went through a phase of buying books by journalists. Here are a few I found, looking over my list:
Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph, In the Long Run: A Father, a Son, and Unintentional Lessons in Happiness, Brinkley's Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time, The Greatest Generation, A Long Way from Home, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss, A Reporter's Life, Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism, Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World, Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story, Secretariat: The Making of a Champion, Always By My Side, I Remember, Pieces of my Mind, My War

The Undefeated - MC is a journalist

Johanne wrote: "I might be reading something by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad. link will follow when I am not on app"

I love her work! I have read a rsted high both The Bookseller of Kabul and A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal.

The Feather Thief was really good,

Love and Ruin and Beautiful Exiles about Martha Gelhorn and Ernest Hemingway.

The Gates of Damascus

Books by Nicholas Kristof such as Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland and A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America are both absolutely incredible and haunting.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly I've had this book in my TBR pile for so long.. Thrilled to have a prompt for it

The main character in The Broken Girls is a journalist.

For those who wants a romance novel:
I'm In No Mood For Love
See Jane Score
Bridget Jones Diary
Sushi for Beginners
Playing James
True Confessions

Isn't Camille in Sharp Objects a journalist?

Mitch Albom is a journalist. He's written both fiction and non-fiction books. (e.g. Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

Would writing a celebrity column for a newspaper count as journalism? For example Jeremy clarkson in the UK has a selection of books from his column pieces

Well a journalist is a profession, so I say you have to either have the education or be a journalist as a living. It doesn't have to do with the content or quality of your journalistic work. I don't know if that applies to your example (and of course you can always stretch).

Milena wrote: "Isn't Camille in Sharp Objects a journalist?"

Yes she is.

Ziggy wrote: "How about
The Shipping News
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Both main characters are journalists

The cat who series main character was a journalist...by [author:Lilian..."

The Shipping News is excellent!

Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh. The author was a journalist.

Nikky wrote: "Would writing a celebrity column for a newspaper count as journalism? For example Jeremy clarkson in the UK has a selection of books from his column pieces"

He's listed as a journalist on his wikipedia page.

I really liked this memoir by journalist (sportswriter) Steve Rushin.

I plan on reading Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński. (I read his Travels with Herodotus a few years ago and I loved it.)

Let me second the recommendation for The Feather Thief, and add a plug for David Grann. I read and thoroughly enjoyed both Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI and The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.

Louise Penny was a radio journalist and Wendy Webb was a journalist. Simone St James worked in television for 20 years, and Jane Harper is a former journalist.

I'm choosing Parkland by Dave Cullen.

Would Ruth Reichl be pushing the envelope? Her bio calls her a food writer and she was the editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. Just wondering what people think.

Renowned titles by literary journalists:

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion


A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway


In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

About the news industry:

Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and The Future of News by Jill Abramson

Non-fiction titles by fashion and pop-culture journalists:

The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992 by Tina Brown


The Price of Illusion: A Memoir by Joan Juliet Buck


Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion by Maureen Callahan


The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History by Robin Givhan


Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas


Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano by Dana Thomas


Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness by Neil Strauss


Vanity Fair's Women on Women

Unauthorized biographies of fashion and pop-culture journalists:

Front Row: Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief by Jerry Oppenheimer


Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts by Robert Hofler

As for fiction, I'll recommend anything by Joan Didion, Ernest Hemingway, and Truman Capote. For light reading, anything by Dominick Dunne and this novel by Jessica Yellin:

Savage News

I’d say bring editor in chief of such a huge publication definitely counts.

Eujean2 wrote: "Would Ruth Reichl be pushing the envelope? Her bio calls her a food writer and she was the editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. Just wondering what people think."

I'm planning on reading the very long The Good Soldier Švejk, a Czech classic by Jaroslav Hašek, who, according to his GR profile, was a journalist, in addition to being a humorist, satirist, writer, anarchist, bohemian, and practical joker.

I read All the President's Men for this prompt last year on Book Riot

I will read either We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy or The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates for this prompt.

Mercedes wrote: "Maybe I'll read The Pickwick Papers or The Shipping News .."

Both are good books in different ways. But since I had forgotten that Dickens was a journalist, I am very happy to be reminded on this thread since I have more books I want to read by him.