Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time
By: Jennifer Shahade
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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1. Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
By: Frank Brady
3.94
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- chess
2. The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
By: Tim Crothers
3.76
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Based on a popular ESPN magazine article selected by Dave Eggers for The Best American Nonrequired … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- chess
3. The Flight of the Eisenstein
By: James Swallow
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Having witnessed the events on Istvaan III, Deathguard Captain Garro seizes a ship and heads to Ter… read more
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4. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
By: Bobby Fischer , None , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This book is essentially a teaching machine. The way a teaching machine works is: It asks you a que… read more
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5. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain
By: David Shenk
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a pr… read more
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6. Fulgrim
By: Graham McNeill
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
It is the 31st millennium, and humanity is at the peak of its powers. As the Great Crusade, led by … read more
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7. Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking: From the First Move to the Last
By: None
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Grand master and prolific chess author Neil McDonald explains every single move made in 30 striking… read more
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8. How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
By: Garry Kasparov , None
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the most highly regarded strategists of our time teaches us how the tools that made him a wo… read more
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9. Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
By: David Edmonds , John Eidinow
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at… read more
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10. The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
By: Josh Waitzkin
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his f… read more
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11. Bobby Fischer Comes Home: The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions
By: None
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
On March 24, 2005, a small plane with Bobby Fischer on board landed at Reykjavik Airport. The arriv… read more
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12. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
By: M.E. Thomas
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopathis an engrossing, highly captivating narrat… read more
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13. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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14. How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond
By: Levy Rozman
4.40
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Learn chess from International Master and Youtube's top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess)… read more
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15. 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
16. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
By: A.J. Baime
4.55
Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition
The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikel… read more
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- history
- biography
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"After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman sa…"-A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
17. All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
By: Sasha Chapin
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bo… read more
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18. The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again
By: Brin-Jonathan Butler
3.42
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A firsthand account of the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen a… read more
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19. Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time
By: Jennifer Shahade
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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20. Perpetual Chess Improvement: Practical Chess Advice from World-Class Players and Dedicated Amateurs (New in Chess)
By: Ben Johnson
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In a world awash in educational chess content, knowing how to study the game most effectively can b… read more
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21. The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life
By: Jonathan Rowson
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A chess grandmaster reveals the powerful teachings this ancient game offers for staying present, th… read more
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