1. The Careful Writer, by Theodore Bernstein

2. Championship Writing: 50 Ways to Improve Your Writing, by Paula LaRocque

3. Kill Duck Before Serving: Red Faces at The New York Times, edited by Linda Amster

4.  The Business of Journalism, edited by William Serrin

5. The New Fowler's Modern English Usage 

6. The News About the News, by Leonard Downie and Robert G. Kaiser

7. Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism, by William McGowan

8. All the President's Men, by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

9.The Great American Newspaper: The Rise and Fall of the Village Voice, by Kevin McAuliffe

10.  Custodians of Conscience, by Theodore Lewis Glasser, James S. Ettema

11. Grammatically Correct: The Writer's Essential Guide to Punctuation, Spelling, Style, Usage and Grammar, by Anne Stilman

12.Chicago Manual of Style, preface by John Grossman

13. Words Into Type, by Marjorie E. Skillin, Robert Malcolm Gay 

14. News Values: Ideas for an Information Age, by Jack Fuller

15. Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, by Bernard Goldberg

16.Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media, by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel

17. Newsthinking: The Secret of Making Your Facts Fall into Place, by Bob Baker

18. The New York Times Manual of Style, by William G. Connolly and Allan M. Siegal

19. The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, E.B. White

20. Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty, by Dennis McDougal 

21. Grammar for Journalists, by E.L. Callihan

22. The Last Editor : How I Helped Save the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency, by James Bellows

23. The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, edited by Norm Goldstein 

24. Media Circus: The Trouble With America's Newspapers, by Howard Kurtz

25. The Day Paper: The Story of One of America's Last Independent Newspapers, by Greg Stone

26. The New Yorker Book of War Pieces: London, 1939-Hiroshima, 1945 

27. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Nasaw 

28.  Raise Hell and Sell Newspapers: Alden J. Blethen & the Seattle Times, by Sherry A. Boswell, Lorraine  McConaghy

29. Hugh Sidey's Profiles of the Presidents

30. Lapsing Into a Comma

31. Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, by Molly Ivins

 32. Knights of the Fourth Estate: The Story of the Miami Herald, by Nixon Smiley

 33. Scripps: The Divided Dynasty, by  Jack Casserly 

34. The Trust : The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, by Susan E. Tifft, Alex S. Jones 

35.  Editorial Eye, by Jane Harrigan

36. Personal History, by Katharine Graham

37. A Life in Progress, by Conrad Black 

38. Murdoch: the Making of a Media Empire, by William Shawcross 

39. Pictures on a Page, by Harold Evans

40. The Chain Gang: One Newspaper Versus the Gannett Empire, by Richard McCord

 41. Spiked: How Chain Management Corrupted America's Oldest Newspaper, by Andrew Kreig 

42. Spiked: The Short Life and Death of the National News Council, by Patrick Brogan 

43.The African American Press: A History of News Coverage During National Crises, by Charles A. Simmons 

44.The Associated Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting , by Frank Bass 

45. I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby: A Colorful History of Tabloids, by Bill Sloan 

46. The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester

47. Seminar: the story of the American Press Institute, by Don E. Carter 

48. Anguished English, by Richard Lederer

49. Envisioning Information, by Edward R. Tufte 

50. A Good Life, by Benjamin C. Bradlee

51. Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers and Their Influence on Southern California, by Bob Gottlieb 

52. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, by Joseph Gibaldi

53. Demystifying Media Technology, Freedom Forum Center

54.  Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering
Edited by Gene Roberts

55. The Young Journalist's Book: How to Write and Produce Your Own Newspaper, by Nancy Bentley

 56. The Roman Record: Hot News from the Swirling Mists of Time (Newspaper Histories Series), by Paul Dowswell, Karen Tomlins 

57. Editing for Today's Newsroom: New Perspectives for a Changing Profession (Communication Textbook Series), by Carl Sessions Stepp

 58. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan 

59. The Magazine from Cover to Cover: Inside a Dynamic Industry, by Sammye Johnson, Patricia Prijatel 

60. Surviving 60 Minutes and the Other News Magazine Shows, by James E. Lukaszewski 

61. Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, by Richard Kluger

62. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser 

64.  How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War, edited by Gideon Rose and James F. Hoge Jr. 

65.Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, by Edward Said

66.What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, by Bernard Lewis 

67. Holy War Inc., by Peter Bergen

68. Sacred Rage, by Robin Wright

69. The Age of Terror, edited by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda 

70. Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by Robert D. Kaplan

71.  Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, by Judith Miller

72. Islam, Democracy and the State in North Africa, by John Entelis

73. Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths and Personal Practice, by Byron E. Shafer

 74.  Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: the Roots of Sectarianism, by Bruce Alan Masters

 75. On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia, by Steve Coll

 76. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, by Daniel Yergin 

77. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, by David Fromkin

 78. Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World, by Karen Armstrong

 79. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, by Peter Hopkirk 

80. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, by Samuel P. Huntington 

81. A History of the Arab Peoples, by Albert Hourani