Books like Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson spends a year riding with the Hell's Angels and finds that the outlaw myth hides a real capacity for violence, in the book that made his name.
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The White Album
Didion's essays on California from the late 1960s into the 1970s, from the Manson murders and the Doors in the studio to the Getty museum and the Black Panthers, set beside her own breaking nerves.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion reports from a late-1960s California coming unglued, from Haight-Ashbury to a murder in the San Bernardino Valley, in essays cut like tile.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Thompson follows the 1972 presidential campaign as a participant, a journalist, and a chemical experiment, producing the most savagely funny political reporting ever written.
In Cold Blood
Capote's reconstruction of the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family by two drifters, braided from police files, interviews, and his own long friendship with the killers on death row.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A journalist and his attorney tear through Las Vegas in a drug-fuelled search for the American Dream at the death of the 1960s.
Dog Soldiers
John Converse, a writer in Saigon, arranges to smuggle three kilos of heroin to California, and the man he sends with it, Ray Hicks, finds that someone is waiting for him.
The Mars Room
Romy Hall, a former stripper at San Francisco's Mars Room club, begins two life sentences at a women's prison in California's Central Valley, and the novel shows the people and system around her.
Chronicles: Volume One
Dylan's memoir, which skips from his arrival in Greenwich Village in 1961 to the making of New Morning and Oh Mercy, and back to his Minnesota boyhood.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Katharina Blum, a quiet housekeeper, spends a carnival night with a young man the police are hunting, and a tabloid newspaper turns her life into a story.
The Flamethrowers
A young motorcycle racer and artist moves to New York in 1975, falls for the heir to an Italian tyre empire, and follows him to Italy as the radical movements of 1977 erupt.
News of a Kidnapping
García Márquez's account of the kidnapping of ten Colombian journalists and public figures by Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel in 1990, taken as leverage against extradition to the United States.
Into the Wild
In 1992 Chris McCandless, a gifted young college graduate, gave away his savings, walked into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land and was found dead months later, and Jon Krakauer reconstructs why.