Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within.
Yuri Felshtinsky, Alexander Litvinenko
A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia
Anna Politkovskaya
Why: I have this fascination with Russian politics and life, probably generated from reading too many cold war type spy novels. Of course, the reality that both authors (Litvinenko and Politkovskaya) were assassinated is interesting. And scary.
Update: The prose in both is very dense - i suppose it's the difference in language and culture, although I think the translations could have been better done. The books are also not written in the Western style of journalism - they're full of claims and opinions that are not really backed up with much evidence other than the authors' opinions. I'm not sure what I'll ultimately get out of the books.
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