Currently reading quite a bit of non fiction.
1. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media My friends think these guys are no longer relevant, but doesn't seem so at all. This is not just a bunch of case studies. The cases they consider only help them illustrate and make more legible their claims about what they call the political economy of the mass media. Their analyses are still deeply useful in terms of looking at what makes new media complicit in the very processes and injustices it claims to denounce.
2. Earl Babbie's
The Practice of Social Research Offers a good, albeit quite introductory, account of the qualitative and quantitative approaches. But still very useful for me, since I don't generally read quantitative studies because they seem quite reductive. This one's helping me sort out my biases and misunderstandings.