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.
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion – Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis
Confessions of a Muckraker – Jack Anderson, with James Boyd
The Wealth of Networks – Yochai Benkler
Passionate Minds – David Bodanis
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet – Christine L. Borgman
Backroom Politics – Bill and Nancy Boyarsky
The Corpse Had A Familiar Face – Edna Buchanan
On Being Certain – Robert Burton
The Death of Discourse – Ronald K.L. Collins and David M. Skover
The Scarecrow – Michael Connelly
The Muckrakers – Fred J. Cook
Why Evolution is True – Jerry Coyne
The Boys on the Bus – Timothy Crouse
36 Views of Mount Fuji – Cathy Davidson
Thomas Morton of Merrymount; The Life and Renaissance of an Early American Poet – Jack Dempsey
A Century of Spin: How Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power – William Dinan and David Millar
The Financier – Theodore Dreiser
The Titan – Theodore Dreiser
The Investigative Journalist – James Dygert
Wallace – Marshall Frady
Angels and Ages – Adam Gopnik
Who Will the People – William Greider
American Radical:The Life and Times of I.F.Stone – D.D. Guttenplan
The Best and the Brightest – David Halberstam
The Powers That Be – David Halberstam
The Histories – Herodotus
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 – Daniel Walker Howe
Untended Gates: The Mismanaged Press – Norman Isaacs
The Age of American Unreason – Susan Jacoby
There Are No Children Here – Alex Kotlowitz
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy – Lawrence Lessig
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry – Vladimir Mayakovsky
The Political Economy of Media – Robert McChesney
Bending Science – Tom McGarity and Wendy Wagner
To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells – Linda O. McMurray
Poison Penmanship – Jessica Mitford
Field of Blood, The Dead Hour, and Slip of the Knife – Denise Mina
Investigative Reporting : From Courthouse to White House – Clark R. Mollenhoff
Corpocracy – Robert Monks
The Republican War on Science – Chris Mooney
A Matter of Opinion – Victor S. Navasky
The Eliminationists – David Neiwert
The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, And Reportage – George Orwell
I.F. Stone: A Portrait – Andrew Patner
The How and the Why – David Park
Scandals, Scamps and Scoundrels – James Phelan
Stone’s Fall – Iain Pears
Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman
Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts – P Sainath
Dwarf Rapes Nun, Flees in UFO – Arnold Sawislak
Muckraking!: Journalism that Changed America – William Serrin and Judith Serrin
24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America – Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller
The Trouble with Physics– Lee Smolin
Nudge – Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
The Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thompson
Be the Media – Various
The Last Empire: Essays 1992 – 2000 – Gore Vidal
Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
Strangers to Ourselves – Timothy Wilson
All the President’s Men – Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Anabasis – Xenophon
Passionate Declarations – Howard Zinn
The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It – Jonathan Zittrain
The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.