Recently, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community for their summer vacations. Below, we present an alphabetized list of the recommendations we received, with a link to more information for each book.
The Hearts of Darkness, by Milton Allimadi
Family of Secrets, by Russ Baker
Republican Gomorrah, by Max Blumenthal
Murder City, by Charles Bowden
Free For All: The Post-Soviet Transition of Russia, by Gary K. Busch
Zioncheck for President, by Phil Campbell
Capturing the News, by Anthony Collings
Create Your Own Economy, by Tyler Cowen
Conservatives Without Conscience, by John Dean
Richistan, by Robert Frank
Torture the Artist, by Joey Goebel
Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom, by John Gorenfeld
Lost Joy, by Camden Joy
The Tyranny of Oil, by Antonia Juhasz
With God on Their Side, by Esther Kaplan
The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and Nobody Can Pay, by John Lanchester
Me Cheeta, by James Lever
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
Man’s Fate, by Andre Malraux
The Wallander Series, by Henning Mankell
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Death and Life of American Journalism, by Robert McChesney and John Nichols
Solar, by Ian McEwan
Battle Cry of Freedom, by James McPherson
The Meat You Eat, by Ken Midkiff and Wendell Berry
My Ears Are Bent, by Joseph Mitchell
Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
Before the Storm, by Rick Perlstein
Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein
The Imperfectionists, by Thomas Rachman
Confidence Game, by Christine S. Richard
Low Life, by Luc Sante
Blackwater, by Jeremy Scahill
Spoon Fed – How Eight Cooks Saved My Life, by Kim Severson
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, by Jeff Sharlet
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Lemon Tree, by Sandy Tolan
All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
City, Save Thyself!, by David Wylie
The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.