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Ronson's first book, Clubbed Class (1994), is a travelogue in which he bluffs his
way into a jet set lifestyle, in search of the world's finest holiday.[4]

His second book, Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001) chronicles his experiences
with people labelled as extremists. Subjects in the book include David Icke, Randy
Weaver, Omar Bakri Muhammad, Ian Paisley, Alex Jones, and Thom Robb. Ronson also
follows independent investigators of secretive groups such as the Bilderberg Group.
[5] The narrative tells of Ronson's attempts to infiltrate the "shadowy cabal"
fabled, by these conspiracy theorists, to rule the world.[6] The book was described
by Louis Theroux as a "funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through
a paranoid shadow world."[7] Variety magazine announced in September 2005 that Them
was purchased by Universal Pictures for a feature film.[8]

Ronson contributed the memoir A Fantastic Life to the Picador anthology Truth or
Dare, in 2004.[9]

Ronson's third book, The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), deals with the secret New
Age unit within the United States Army called the First Earth Battalion. Ronson
investigates people such as Major General Albert Stubblebine III, former head of
intelligence, who believe that people can walk through walls with the right mental
preparation, and that goats can be killed simply by staring at them. Much was based
on the ideas of Lt. Col. Jim Channon, ret., who wrote the First Earth Battalion
Operations Manual in 1979, inspired by the emerging Human Potential Movement of
California. The book suggests that these New Age military ideas mutated over the
decades to influence interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay. An eponymous film
of the book was released in 2009, in which Ronson's investigations were
fictionalised and structured around a journey to Iraq. Ronson is played by the
actor Ewan McGregor in the film.[10]

Ronson's fourth book, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness (2006;
Picador and Guardian Books) is a collection of his Guardian articles, mostly those
concerning his domestic life. A companion volume was What I Do: More True Tales of
Everyday Craziness (2007).[11][12]

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (2011) is Ronson's
fifth book. In it, he explores the nature of psychopathic behaviour, learning how
to apply the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and investigating its reliability. He
interviews people in facilities for the criminally insane as well as potential
psychopaths in corporate boardrooms.[13][14] The book's findings have been rejected
by The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy and by Robert D. Hare,
creator of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.[15][16] Hare described the book as
"frivolous, shallow, and professionally disconcerting".[16]

Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries (2012) is Ronson's sixth book and is a
collection of previously published articles by him.[17]

Ronson's book So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2015) concerns the effects of public
humiliation in the internet age.[18]

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