Author Guide · Lisanne Swart
Books Written by Ronan Farrow
A network lawyer tells Ronan Farrow to stop making calls. A source list mysteriously stops answering. A black car sits outside his apartment for hours. Farrow kept working anyway, and turned the paper trail into two books: one tracing how American diplomats got replaced by generals and drone strikes, the other naming the man his own employer told him to leave alone. Below is his complete bibliography, in order.
By Lisanne Swart · 2 books · 2018–2019 · Updated July 2026
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Farrow spent time in some of the most dangerous places on earth — Afghanistan, Somalia, North Korea — drawing on his own years as a State Department official to trace how American diplomacy quietly lost ground to the military. He interviewed every living U.S. secretary of state at the time, from Henry Kissinger to Rex Tillerson, and the book became a New York Times bestseller.
This is the book to read if you want Farrow the former diplomat rather than Farrow the investigative reporter — a case for a profession he watched hollow out from the inside, told through people who were there when it still worked.
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect PredatorsStart here
A routine assignment for NBC News led Farrow to Harvey Weinstein, and then to the discovery that his own network was working to bury the story. Built from over two hundred source interviews, contracts, emails, and audio recordings, the book follows the private investigators and lawyers deployed to intimidate him before he took the reporting to The New Yorker instead.
Read this one first. It’s the book that made Farrow’s name, it’s a New York Times bestseller, and it reads as much like a spy thriller as a work of journalism — the corporate cover-up is, in its way, the more disturbing story.
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