19 must-read biography books like The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti…

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Cover of Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss

1. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

By: David Maraniss

4.02

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more

Similar categories in David Maraniss's Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe book and Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

2. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

3. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

By: Evan Drellich

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more

Similar categories in Evan Drellich's Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess book and Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski

4. The Baseball 100

By: Joe Posnanski

4.74

Format: 869 pages, Hardcover

A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more

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  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen

5. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

By: Rich Cohen

3.90

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more

Similar categories in Rich Cohen's When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season book and Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien

6. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

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  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Riesman

7. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

By: Abraham Riesman

3.75

Format: 464 pages, ebook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Riesman's Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America book and Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time by Ryan McGee

8. Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time

By: Ryan McGee

4.36

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a f… read more

Similar categories in Ryan McGee's Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time book and Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

  • baseball
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

9. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson book and Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series by Tyler Kepner

10. The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series

By: Tyler Kepner

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, a highly ent… read more

Similar categories in Tyler Kepner's The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series book and Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler

11. Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

By: Theresa Runstedtler

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Agains… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me by Rex Chapman

12. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

By: Rex Chapman

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris  Herring

13. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

By: Chris Herring

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more

Similar categories in Chris Herring's Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks book and Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Barkley: A Biography by Timothy Bella

14. Barkley: A Biography

By: Timothy Bella

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

* A Good Morning America Buzz Book* *A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022* The definitive biogra… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant

15. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

By: Howard Bryant

4.23

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that… read more

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  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs by Jimmy   Johnson

16. Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs

By: Jimmy Johnson

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From FOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football coach Jimmy Johnson—the first … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
Cover of LeBron by Jeff Benedict

17. LeBron

By: Jeff Benedict

4.40

Format: None pages, Audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the #1 bestselling author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woods—the “defi… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Benedict's LeBron book and Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book of Joe: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life by Joe Maddon

18. The Book of Joe: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life

By: Joe Maddon

4.00

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Lessons in baseball enlightenment from three-time MLB Manager of the Year Joe Maddon. No one sees … read more

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  • baseball
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History by Dana O'Neil

19. The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History

By: Dana O'Neil

4.29

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in colleg… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness by Andy McCullough

20. The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness

By: Andy McCullough

4.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw… read more

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  • baseball
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O'Connor

21. Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers

By: Ian O'Connor

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aaron Rodgers is regarded by some as the most talented player to ever hold the most important job i… read more

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  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook

20 Top audiobook books like The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

Evan Drellich

4.16

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The Baseball 100

Joe Posnanski

4.74

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

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