Tall Men, Short Shorts: The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter
By: Leigh Montville
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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1. One on One: Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game
By: John Feinstein
3.89
Format: 533 pages, Hardcover
John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends. Jo… read more
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2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
3. Report from Engine Co. 82
By: Dennis Smith
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered res… read more
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4. The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno & the Network Battle for the Night
By: Bill Carter
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
The basis of an HBO cable-television movie special, the behind-the-scenes story of the ratings batt… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Dr. J: My Life Above the Rim and Behind Closed Doors
By: Julius Erving
4.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At long last, a high-flying American legend comes cown to earth to tell his life story With flights… read more
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6. Disney War
By: James B. Stewart
4.26
Format: 112 pages,
The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner--Disney Chairman and CEO--and the scand… read more
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7. Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
By: Jeff Pearlman
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
TheNew York Timesbestselling author of Sweetnessdelivers the first all-encompassing account of the … read more
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8. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
By: Jane Leavy
4.00
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
"The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed.... This is an absorbing book, beautifull… read more
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9. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
By: Buzz Bissinger
3.81
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the … read more
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10. 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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- sports
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11. Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski
By: Ian O'Connor
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive biography of college basketball’s all-time winningest coa… read more
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12. 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
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13. When the Game Was Ours
By: Larry Bird
4.23
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physic… read more
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14. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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- history
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"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
15. Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
By: Luke Epplin
4.48
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbab… read more
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- sports
- history
16. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
17. 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
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18. Tall Men, Short Shorts: The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter
By: Leigh Montville
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This "part memoir, part sports story" ( Wall Street Journal ) from the New York Times bestselling a… read more
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19. Broken
By: Don Winslow
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss,… read more
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20. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
By: Matthew Dallek
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more
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- history
21. 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
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22. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.28
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
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23. Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics
By: Dan Shaughnessy
4.22
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
Today the NBA is a vast global franchise—a billion-dollar industry seen by millions of fans in the … read more
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24. It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness
By: Seth Wickersham
4.34
Format: 544 pages, ebook
Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL’s most dominant team,… read more
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25. 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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26. Unguarded
By: Scottie Pippen
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching memoir from the six-time NBA Champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and Hall of F… read more
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27. Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP
By: Mirin Fader
4.41
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the story of one of the most transcendent players in NBA history–from his early life livin… read more
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28. Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever
By: L. Jon Wertheim
4.10
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly … read more
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- sports
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29. 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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- sports
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30. True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
By: Kostya Kennedy
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year True is a probing, richly-detailed, u… read more
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31. Long Train Runnin': Our Story of The Doobie Brothers
By: Tom Johnston
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, the incredible true story of the legendary band, the Doobie Brothers, written b… read more
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