Earlier this month, we asked readers to recommend a book to members of the journalistic community. Below, we present an alphabetized list of the recommendations we received, with a link to more information for each book. If you’ve left your shopping until the last minute, you could do worse than to give one or more of these books.
Tokyo Vice—Jake Adelstein
The Ambition and the Power—John Barry
The Lonely Soldier—Helen Benedict
The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft—Robert Boynton, ed.
Battle for Justice—Ethan Bronner
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance—Ian Buruma
The Associated Press Guide to News Writing—Rene J. Cappon
Ghost Wars—Steve Coll
Necessary Illusions—Noam Chomsky
Homer and Langley—E.L. Doctorow
The Unknown Soldier—Joshua Dysart
Breaking the News—James Fallows
The Great War for Civilization—Robert Fisk
Great Plains and Family—Ian Frazier
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda—Philip Gourevitch
Gaily, Gaily—Ben Hecht
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning—Chris Hedges
Out of His Skin: The John Barnes Phenomenon—Dave Hill
The True Believer—Eric Hoffer
The Great Game—Peter Hopkirk
The Curse of the Mogul—Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald and Ava Seave
Finding George Orwell in Burma—Emma Larkin
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx—Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes you a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East—Neil Macfarquhar
Paris 1919—Margaret MacMillan
China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing’s Expansion in Africa—Serge Michel, Michel Beurut, and Paulo Woods
Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting—Eleanor Mills and Naomi Wolf, eds.
I.F. Stone: A Portrait—Andrew Patner
Scandals, Scamps, and Scoundrels: The Casebook of an Investigative Reporter—James Phelan
Don’t Make No Waves … Don’t Back No Losers—Milton Rakove
The Girls in the Balcony—Nan Robertson
Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information—Anna Rubino
Lords of the Press—George Seldes
The Brass Check—Upton Sinclair
Deogratias—JP Stassen
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller—Steve Weinberg
Hella Nation—Evan Wright
The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.