So this is a genre that is hard for me to pinpoint.
I like history but I don’t always like reading dry history.
I enjoy reading books written by journalist and reporters over all kinds of subjects. War, environment, crime, social issues, politics and culture in other countries etc. something that focuses on a topic but educates you along the way. Some books I’ve read with that kind of vibe is
“Five days at memorial” about the hospital staff and patients that were stranded during Hurricane Katrina.
“American Prison” . Journalist gets a job at a notorious prison in Louisiana and discusses the whole issue with private prisons and the history behind it all
“Nine lives of Pakistan” journalist takes a deep dive of the social, political, and economic issues Pakistan faces and talks to people from all walks of life over there
“Bayou farewell” journalist goes to the Louisiana bayou to see how fracking and climate change is destroying the life of local Cajuns
“Exposure” memoir by lawyer Robert Billot about his case against DuPont for damaging local water supplies with cancer causing chemicals
“Midnight in Mexico” journalist investigated the rise of the cartel, while going over his own identity crisis as a Mexican American m
“Libertarian walks into a bear” journalist investigates (hilariously) about a failed libertarian commune in New Hampshire
So stuff like that. kind of a first person pov and deep dive into specific situation and issues on random topics
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You might like *The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins.
“Five Past Midnight in Bhopal” by Dominique Lapierre is about the Union Carbide chemical leak in Bhopal, India.
Okay, give this a chance: The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant by Graham Hancock. He was a reporter who wrote han in dept travelogue of Ethiopia.
“Hancock was in Ethiopia in 1983, having been hired by the Ethiopian government to write and produce a coffee-table book extolling that country. He was greatly surprised when told that Ethiopia’s Falasha Jews did not exist, and that many people could land in jail, or worse, if he went around photographing such nonexistents. Even so, off he went to Axum, deep in the desert, to see the temples and statuary of the Black Jews of Ethiopia.”
The Ark of the Covenant stuff is interesting, well-theorized, and not too crazy.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer – Siddhartha Mukherjee
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic – David Quammen
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe – Carl Zimmer
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life – Ed Yong
Righteous Dopefiend – Jeffrey Schonberg and Philippe Bourgois
Perversion of justice: the Jeffrey Epstein story
She said—about Harvey Weinstein and the New York Times
Tokyo Vice—it’s also a show on HBO I believe.
Catch and kill by Ronan Farrow
Hockey confidential by Bob McKenzie
Hear no evil: this one is about the penn state scandal
Moneyplayers: the rise and fall of Bob Goodenow
It’s about the NHL lockouts
Press reset: about video games
Blood sweat and pixels
Not journalism but still good
Console Wars Blake Harris