Some of Barry Siegel's Favorites- The New Journalism, edited by Tom Wolfe
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion
- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
- Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer
- Friendly Fire, by C.D.B. Bryan
- The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracey Kidder
- Blood and Money, by Tommy Thomson
- Gideon's Trumpet, by Anthony Lewis
- Levels of the Game, by John McPhee [also, Pieces of the Frame]
- The John McPhee Reader, edited by Wm. Howarth
- Killings, by Calvin Trillin
- Quintana and Friends, by John Gregory Dunne
- A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean
- The Second Tree from the Corner, by E.B. White
- Funny Money, by Mark Singer
- Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell
- The Literary Journalists, edited by Norman Sims, 1984
- Literary Journalism, edited by Norman Sims and Mark Kramer, 1995
- The Art of Fact, edited by Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda, 1997
- Praying for Sheetrock, by Melissa Faye Greene
- The Right Stuff, by TomWolfe
- Dispatches, by Michael Herr
- Gay Talese Reader, Gay Talese.