Who recommended Them?

2 people have recommended Them in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Edgar Wright and Nigella Lawson. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Them worth reading?

2 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a sociology student drafting a paper on radicalization who needs vivid, first-person scenes that the book uses to show how conspiratorial belief feels in practice; a journalist or longform writer studying immersion reporting who wants a readable example of moving between curiosity, access, and moral unease as the book frames it; a college instructor planning a seminar on media ethics who needs short, debatable passages the book supplies to prompt classroom discussion about tone and responsibility. It may not suit: you want a systematic theory or clear solutions — the book offers narrative encounters, not analytical frameworks or how-to steps (no hands-on exercises); you prefer detached, clinical reporting — the book's proximity and conversational sympathy will feel too close or comforting; you'll likely put it down when similar anecdotal episodes repeat and the middle slows; if you need tight structure, you'll lose interest.

What books are like Them?

Readers of Them also turn to The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, The World as It Is and Out of Control, based on the lists and recommenders these books share.

Them by Jon Ronson: Recommended by 2 People

Name: Them
Author: Jon Ronson

From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry and So You?ve Been Publicly Shamed.A wide variety of extremist groups Islamic fundamentalists, neoNazis share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists...