Reddit mentions of The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own.

The Night of the Gun. By David Carr.

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Gun-reporter-investigates-darkest/dp/1416541535

I am currently reading [The Night of the Gun] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Night-Gun-reporter-investigates/dp/1416541535/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1405104663&sr=8-1) by David Carr as well as Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

I actually started Two Cities over a month ago but forgot the book at my parents' place when I was there last. Kind of annoying since I only had about 80 pages to go but I'll be there this weekend so I am hoping I can wrap both books up by the end of the weekend.

Next up is either [Norwegian Wood] (http://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Wood-Haruki-Murakami/dp/0375704027/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_pap?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405105257&sr=1-1&keywords=norwegian+wood) by Haruki Murakami or [Sirens of Titan] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Sirens-Titan-A-Novel/dp/0385333498/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1405105400&sr=1-1) by Kurt Vonnegut.

My hope was to try and read 52 books in 52 weeks (aside: if this kind of challenge interests you be sure to check out /r/52book) but I'm pretty far behind at this point and will have to really ramp things up if I want to get that done.

My suggestion is to read book-length journalism by top-tier journalists. Below are some examples. Also, you should check out the Longform podcast, which has interviews with journalists about their careers and their work.

David Carr - The Night of the Gun
David Remnick - Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker
Jennifer Gonnerman - Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Jessica Mitford - The American Way of Death Revisited
Wendy Ruderman & Barbara Laker - Busted: A Tale of Corruption in the City of Brotherly Love
Michael Herr - Dispatches

There's an even better book by David Carr, called "Night of the Gun". AA worked for him.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Night-Gun-reporter-investigates/dp/1416541535

Check out Night of the Gun by David Carr. It's his memoir about his longtime drug addiction. Carr, a New York Times reporter, decides that rather than only write from memory (frankly much of it is gone after so many years of drug abuse), he interviews friends, family, and others who were around for the dark times in an attempt to form a truthful, unflinching portrait of who he was during his years of addiction.