Journalist reading material

Newsroom folk do read books occasionally, when they can actually find time. A while back, The Vox adviser Erin Daniels asked around among colleagues when putting together a list of book recommendations for her high school staff.

The result: books about committing journalism, general books about writing, examples of great writing or great research.

Here’s a selection from the list, and the full list is available as a PDF . The asterisks denote books recommended by newsroom folk.

* Bernstein, Carl & Bob Woodward. All the President’s Men
* Bledsoe, Jerry. Death by Journalism
Bradlee, Ben. A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
* Cappon, Jack. The Associated Press Guide to News Writing
* Fforde, Jasper. The Well of Lost Plots
Garner, Joe. We Interrupt this Broadcast: The Events that Stopped our Lives
* Herge. The Adventures of Tintin
Hohenburg, John. The Pulitzer Diaries: Inside America’s Greatest Prize
* Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner
* Ivins, Molly. Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?
King, Larry. Larry King OR How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
* King, Stephen. On Writing
* Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air OR Into the Wild
* Kuralt, Charles On the Road
* Levitt, Stephen. Freakonomics
Miller, Judith. God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant
Middle East
Okrent, Daniel. Public Editor Number One: The Collected Columns (with Reflections, Reconsiderations, and Even a Few Retractions) of the First Ombudsman of The New York Times
Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News
* Strunk, William Jr. Elements of Style
* Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.
* Weinberg, Steve. The Reporters Handbook: an investigators guide to documents & techniques
* Walsh, Bill. Lapsing into a Comma

For the full list in PDF form, click here.