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Books about sports

Based on tag: sport

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1

Open: An Autobiography

by André Agassi

2,250 members

94 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, alex68

2

by Leonard Gardner

492 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Frederick Exley

1,110 members

14 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Norman Mailer

751 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

5

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir

by Haruki Murakami

5,041 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

6

Breaking the Surface

by Greg Louganis

535 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

7

by Jay McInerney

438 members

7 reviews

3.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Joyce Carol Oates

307 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

9

The All-Girl Football Team

by Lewis Nordan

53 members

3 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

10

764 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

11

The Great American Novel

961 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

12

Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories

by Chris Crutcher

747 members

46 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Bernard Malamud

2,027 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

14

by Tillie Walden

583 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

15

Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

679 members

27 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

16

380 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Douglas Coupland

86 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

18

Fútbol. Storie di calcio

by Osvaldo Soriano

51 members

3.8

Member: alex68

19

Unseen Academicals

by Terry Pratchett

6,255 members

186 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Front Runner

by Patricia Nell Warren

821 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

21

Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

206 members

½ 3.4

Member: alex68

22

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

by Laura Hillenbrand

7,903 members

155 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

23

Check, Please!, Book 1: #Hockey!

818 members

56 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

24

Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones

438 members

24 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Professional

134 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

26

by Edward Bloor

3,691 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

by John Cheever

26 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

28

by Albert Camus

2,406 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

29

459 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis

5,522 members

130 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

31

The Scream Team

55 members

3.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

4,698 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

33

150 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

by David Remnick

752 members

11 reviews

4

Member: alex68

35

Tigers and Devils

by Sean Kennedy

255 members

21 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

by Bette Bao Lord

3,023 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

Soccer in Sun and Shadow

by Eduardo Galeano

638 members

17 reviews

4

Member: alex68

38

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

by Alison Bechdel

561 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

by John Reynolds Gardiner

6,380 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

De Ronde van Italië

by Dino Buzzati

73 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

41

Pafko at the Wall: A Novella

185 members

3 reviews

4

Member: alex68

42

The Bright Lands

180 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Sportswriter

by Richard Ford

2,923 members

61 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

44

by William Goldman

1,157 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

45

The Skating Rink

by Roberto Bolaño

630 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

46

Field of Screams

16 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Federer as Religious Experience

by David Foster Wallace

40 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

48

809 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

49

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

14,097 members

317 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

50

The Golf Omnibus

by P. G. Wodehouse

405 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

51

The Chosen Maiden

by Eva Stachniak

65 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: alex68

52

Le plus beau but était une passe

by Jean-Claude Michéa

11 members

2

Member: alex68

53

Levels of the Game

349 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

54

The Boys of Summer

1,202 members

22 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

55

The Game: A Thoughtful and Provocative Look at a Life in Hockey

489 members

12 reviews

4

Member: alex68

56

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

by William Finnegan

950 members

39 reviews

4

Member: alex68

57

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

by Buzz Bissinger

2,861 members

72 reviews

4

Member: alex68

58

The Sweet Science

by A. J. Liebling

258 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

59

The Art of Fielding

by Chad Harbach

4,190 members

252 reviews

4

Member: alex68

60

6,149 members

110 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

61

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

2,642 members

70 reviews

4.2

Member: alex68

62

Big Red of Meadow Stable: Secretariat, the Making of a Champion

by William Nack

555 members

9 reviews

4

Member: alex68

63

Heaven Is a Playground

by Rick Telander

106 members

2 reviews

4

Member: alex68

64

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

by Lance Armstrong

2,969 members

75 reviews

½ 3.7

65

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

4,551 members

229 reviews

4.2

66

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

by Jonathan Wilson

711 members

17 reviews

3.9

67

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

763 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

68

Quidditch Through the Ages

by J. K. Rowling

12,443 members

104 reviews

½ 3.6

69

Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

by David Winner

396 members

10 reviews

3.9

70

Beautiful Disaster

by Jamie McGuire

3,014 members

273 reviews

½ 3.7

71

Every Second Counts

by Lance Armstrong

865 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

72

by Helena Hunting

388 members

25 reviews

3.8

73

351 members

49 reviews

3.9

74

251 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

75

Fighting Silence (On the Ropes, #1)

by Aly Martinez

162 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

76

Worth the Fight

161 members

14 reviews

3.9

77

68 members

30 reviews

3.8

78

SLATE (Breaking the Declan Brothers, #2)

by Kelly Gendron

48 members

34 reviews

3.8

79

Wildcard, Volume One

by Missy Johnson

46 members

32 reviews

4

80

Ryley's Revenge

42 members

5

81

40 members

2 reviews

4.9

82

Pulse (The Beat and the Pulse, #2)

38 members

5

83

38 members

30 reviews

½ 4.5

84

Player (A Taboo Short)

by Sam Crescent

37 members

30 reviews

3.1

85

Frozen Barriers (Barriers #1)

by Sara Shirley

36 members

30 reviews

½ 4.5

86

by Julia Harlow

35 members

29 reviews

3

87

by Rachel Skinner

31 members

5

88

by Coco Cadence

31 members

4

89

Play Hard (Hot for Him #1)

31 members

29 reviews

4

90

Play Harder (Hot for Him #2)

30 members

29 reviews

4

91

Play Hardest (Hot For Him #3)

30 members

29 reviews

4

92

SURRENDER (The Snapped Novella Series, Part 6)

by Ketley Allison

29 members

29 reviews

4

93

SUSPECT (The Snapped Novella Series, Part 5)

by Ketley Allison

29 members

29 reviews

4

94

Beyond a Boundary

by C. L. R. James

481 members

13 reviews

4

95

Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World

by Harry Thompson

308 members

7 reviews

3.9

96

You Cannot Be Serious

by John McEnroe

466 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

97

Football Against the Enemy

414 members

10 reviews

3.9

98

A Season With Verona

318 members

7 reviews

3.8

99

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

by Franklin Foer

1,434 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

100

I Am Zlatan: My Story On and Off the Field

by Zlatan Ibrahimović

404 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

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