2011 Investigative Reporting Books


1	Title	Author
2	A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher	Achenback, Joel
3	Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention	Alexander, Amy
4	Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World	Armoudian, Maria
5	The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World	Bahadur, Jay
6	Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything	Baker, Stephen
7	Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals	Ballen, Ken
8	The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan	Barker, Kim
9	Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis	Barnett, Cynthia
10	The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His First Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts	Bascomb, Neal
11	Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. coli Outbreak that Changed the Way Americans Eat	Benedict, Jeff
12	The Longest War: America and Al-Qaeda Since 9/11	Bergen, Peter
13	Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam	Berger, J.M.
14	Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church	Berry, Jason
15	The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System	Berryhill, Michael
16	Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel	Blanford, Nicholas
17	Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq	Bonin, Richard
18	Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide	Boyd, Roddy
19	Worm: The Story of the First Digital World War	Bowden, Mark
20	The House That Bogle Built: How John Bogle and Vanguard Reinvented the Mutual Fund Industry	Braham, Lewis
21	One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com	Brandt, Richard L.
22	The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World	Braude, Joseph
23	Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools	Brill, Steven
24	Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land	Brinkley, Joel
25	Brothers (and Me)	Britt, Donna
26	The Fatal Gift of Beauty: An American Girl and a Murder in Italy	Burleigh, Nina
27	The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers	Carney, Scott
28	Hitman	Carr, Howie
29	The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic	Carroll, Linda and Rosner, David
30	Always on: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--and Locked Us in	Chen,Brian X.
31	World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humans and Machines	Chorost, Michael
32	Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War	Ciezadlo, Annia
33	Israel: Can It Survive?	Cohen, Richard
34	Fallout: The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking	Collins, Catherine and Frantz, Doug
35	The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East	Cooper, Andrew Scott
36	The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage	Cose, Ellis
37	Crude Awakening: Money, Mavericks, and Mayhem in Alaska	Coyne, Amanda and Hopfinger, Tony
38	Almost a Family: A Memoir	Darnton, John
39	The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal, Conviction, and the Mormon Church	Davis, Lisa
40	The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power	Dunn, Geoffrey
41	Science Fair Season: Twelve Kids, a Robot Named Scorch, and What It Takes to Win	Dutton, Judy
42	Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place	Eichstaedt, Peter
43	Demon Fish:Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks	Eilperin, Juliet
44	The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge	English, T.J.
45	Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit	Estabrook, Barry
46	Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum	Felch, Jason and Frammolino, Ralph
47	Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America	Feldman, Jay
48	Taliban: The Unknown Enemy	Fergusson, James
49	The Big Thirst: A Tour of the Bitter Fights, Breathtaking Beauty, Relentless Innovation, and Big Business Driving the New Era of High Stakes Water	Fishman, Charles
50	Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Culture	Fitzgerald, Paul and Gould, Elizabeth
51	Love You Madly: The True Story of a Small-Town Girl, the Young Men She Seduced, and the Murder of Her Mother	Fleeman, Michael
52	Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy	Fletcher, Seth
53	33 Men	Franklin, Jonathan
54	Delivered From Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived	Franscell, Ron
55	Plastic: A Toxic Love Story	Freinkel, Susan
56	Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse	Fuentes, Annette
57	My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism	Gessner, David
58	To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War	Gibler, John
59	Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan	Girardet, Edward
60	State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America's Empire	Glain, Stephen
61	The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood	Gleick, James
62	Dark Market: Cyberthieves, Cybercops, and You	Glenny, Misha
63	The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe	Godwin, Peter
64	You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya	Goffard, Christopher
65	The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market	Goodman, Leah McGrath
66	The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror	Graff, Garrett
67	Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper	Gray, Geoffrey
68	Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office	Greenburg, Zack O'Malley
69	With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful	Greenwald, Glenn
70	El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency	Grillo, Ioan
71	A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves	Gross, Jane
72	Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles	Gross, Michael
73	The Grace of Everyday Saints: How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith	Guthrie, Julian
74	Never the Hope Itself: Love and Ghosts in Latin American and Haiti	Hadden, Gerry
75	Assassins of the Turquoise Palace	Hakakian, Roya
76	The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan	Hastings, Michael
77	The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens	Hauser, Brooke
78	Recovering a Lost River: Removing Dams, Rewilding Salmon, Revitalizing Communities	Hawley, Steven
79	The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress	Hedges, Chris
80	The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust	Henriques, Diana B.
81	The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits	Herridge, Catherine
82	HOT: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth	Hertsgaard, Mark
83	Armed Humanitarians: The Rise of the Nation Builders	Hodge, Nathan
84	The Next American Economy: Blueprint for a Real Recovery	Holstein, William J.
85	Fly, Colton, Fly: The True Story of the Barefoot Bandit	Holtz, Jackson
86	Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution	Humes, Edward
87	Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men	Hvistendahl, Mara
88	Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys	Hymowitz, Kay S.
89	Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi	Inskeep, Steve
90	Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base	Jacobsen, Annie
91	Shadows on the Gulf: A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland	Jacobsen, Rowan
92	What's Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World	Jenkins, McKay
93	Tragedy in Crimson: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China	Johnson, Tim
94	The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" and Other Tricks to Rob You Blind	Johnston, David Cay
95	First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth	Kaufman, Marc
96	Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground	Kay, Jonathan
97	I Would Find a Girl Walking	Kelly, Kathy and Montane, Diana
98	The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First	Keri, Jonah
99	The Secrets of the FBI	Kessler, Ronald
100	The Immigrant Advantage: Why Newcomers to America Are Happier and Healthier and What We Can Learn from Them	Kolker, Claudia
101	The Voodoo Wave: Inside a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick's	Kreidler, Mark
102	Voices from Iraq: A People's History, 2003-2009	Kukis, Mark
103	The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets	Lambert, Emily
104	No Animals Were Harmed: The Controversial Line Between Entertainment and Abuse	Laufer, Peter
105	Free Ride: How the Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back	Levine, Robert
106	In the Plex: How Google Thinks,Works, and Shapes Our Lives	Levy, Steven
107	Boomerang	Lewis, Michael
108	The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet	Linden, Eugene
109	Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present	Madrick, Jeff
110	Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology	Madrigal, Alexis
111	Poisoned Legacy: The Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power	Magner, Mike
112	Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression	Maharidge, Dale
113	Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen	Manso, Peter
114	Watergate's Legacy and the Press: The Investigative Impulse	Marshall, Jon
115	Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights? The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It	McChesney, Robert W. and Pickard, Victor, Eds.
116	The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin	McGinnis, Joe
117	The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White	Merlino, Doug
118	Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN	Miller, James Andrew and Shales, Tom
119	Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender	Miller, Steve
120	Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed	Miniter, Richard
121	The Panic Virus: A True Study of Medicine, Science, and Fear	Mnookin, Seth
122	Reckless Endangerment	Morgenson, Gretchen
123	The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom	Morozov, Evgeny
124	Financial Origami: How the Wall Street Model Broke	Moynihan, Brendan
125	Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil	Mueller, Tom
126	Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns	Muller, Judy
127	Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case	Nathan, Debbie
128	Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan	Nawa, Fariba
129	Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy	Neuwirth, Robert
130	Diplomacy, Inc: How Other Countries Employ American Lobbyists to Influence U.S. Foreign Policy	Newhouse, John
131	The BeeKeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America	Nordhaus, Hannah
132	The Next Big Story: My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities	O'Brien, Soledad and Arce, Rose Marie
133	Sugar Nation: The Hidden Truth Behind America's Deadliest Habit and the Simple Way to Beat It	O'Connell, Jeff
134	The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter	O'Connor, Ian
135	Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture	Orenstein, Peggy
136	The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers	O'Shea, James
137	Vulture's Picnic: Big Oil, Bigger Money, Biggest Lies	Palast, Greg
138	The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality	Panek, Richard
139	Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence	Parenti, Christian
140	Pinched: Why Most Americans Remain in Reverse in the Wake of the Great Recession	Peck, Don
141	Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy	Perlin, Ross
142	Lifeblood: How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time	Perry, Alex
143	Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with its Enemies	Perry, Mark
144	Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families - and America	Pertman, Adam
145	Too Young To Kill	Phelps, M. William
146	Celebrity, Inc.: How Famous People Make Money	Piazza, Jo
147	The Fall of the House of Forbes: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire	Pinkerton, Stewart
148	The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil	Pintak, Lawrence
149	Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege	Potter, Will
150	Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground	Poulsen, Kevin
151	All the Justice Money Can Buy: Corporate Greed on Trial	Prakash, Snigdha
152	The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century	Prud'homme, Alex
153	Ghost: The True Story of One Man's Descent into Madness and Murder	Puit, Glenn
154	Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery	Pulitzer, Lisa and Cole Thompson
155	In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down	Reed, Stanley
156	Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion	Reitman, Janet
157	At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel	Rempel, William C.
158	Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America	Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa
159	The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School	Robbins, Alexandra
160	And Nothing but the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert	Rogak, Lisa
161	The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories	Rose, Frank
162	Bullpen Diaries: Mariano Rivera, Bronx Dreams, Pinstripe Legends, and the Future of the New York Yankees	Rosen, Charley
163	American Idol: The Untold Story	Rushfield, Richard
164	Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting that Launched the War on Drugs	Ryan, Jason
165	Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America	Ryan, Jeff
166	Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World	Saunders, Doug
167	Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century	Schiffrin, Anya-Ed.
168	Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda	Schmitt, Eric and Thom Shanker
169	Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers	Schultz, Ellen E.
170	Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future	Scocca, Tom
171	A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother	Scott, Janny
172	Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui	Scroggins, Deborah
173	The Man In The Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor	Seal, Mark
174	Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between	Sharlet, Jeff
175	Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever	Sharp, Kathleen
176	Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens	Shaxson, Nicholas
177	Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse	Sheets, Lawrence Scott
178	Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them	Sher, Julian
179	Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth	Siegal, Erin
180	The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties	Shipler, David K.
181	Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster	Shroder, Tom
182	High Stakes: The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction	Skolnik, Sam
183	Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery	Smith, Jennie Erin
184	Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit	Steffy, Loren C.
185	No. 9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster	Stewart, Bonnie E.
186	Tangled Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff	Stewart, James B.
187	Rat Island: Predators in Paradise - And the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue	Stolzenburg, William
188	A History of the World Since 9/11: Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror	Streatfield, Dominic
189	Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson	Sullivan, Randall
190	Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President	Suskind, Ron
191	In The Lion's Den: An Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle with Syria	Tabler, Andrew
192	The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve	Tyre, Peg
193	The Change I Can Believe in: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama	vanden Heuvel, Katrina
194	The Change I Can Believe in: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama	Veseth, Mike
195	Once Upon a Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America's Big Three Auto Makers - GM, Ford, and Chrysler	Vlasic, Bill
196	The People of the Arrow: In Search of the Amazon's Last Hidden Tribes	Wallace, Scott
197	The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA	Warrick, Joby
198	Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself - and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future	Washington, Harriet A.
199	Hatred at Home: al-Qaida on Trial in the American Midwest	Welsh-Huggins, Andrew
200	Answer Them Nothing: Bringing Down the Polygamous Empire of Warren Jeffs	Weyermann, Debra
201	Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Journey Through Adoption	Wheeler, Jacob
202	Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen	White, Christopher
203	The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District	Whitmire, Richard
204	Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate	Williams, Juan
205	The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America's Rush to War	Willman, David
206	Tiger Trap: America's Secret Spy War with China	Wise, David
207	The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend	Woestendiek, John
208	Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life	Wohlsen, Marcus
209	Rock The Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World	Wright, Robin
210	The Rules of the Tunnel: A Brief Period of Madness	Zeman, Ned