30 must-read nonfiction books like Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court by Chris Paul

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Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

By: Chris Paul

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! A powerful and unexpected memoir of family, faith…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court by Chris Paul , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. 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 Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds by Rich Paul

2. Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds

By: Rich Paul

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of will, success, and the luck we make—from the founder and CE… read more

Similar categories in Rich Paul's Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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3. Letters to a Young Athlete

By: Chris Bosh

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A legendary NBA player shares his remarkable story, infused with hard-earned wisdom about the journ… read more

Similar categories in Chris Bosh's Letters to a Young Athlete book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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4. Activate Your Greatness

By: Alex Toussaint

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Alex Toussaint, the Peloton star who counts everyone from Roger Federer and the Golden State Warrio… read more

Similar categories in Alex Toussaint's Activate Your Greatness book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

By: Staci Robinson

4.44

Format: 691 pages, Hardcover

The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving expl… read more

Similar categories in Staci Robinson's Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Thicker than Water: A Memoir

By: Kerry Washington

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Washington's Thicker than Water: A Memoir book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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7. Tell Me Everything

By: Minka Kelly

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more

Similar categories in Minka Kelly's Tell Me Everything book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

8. 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

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"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

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9. What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life

By: Billy Dee Williams

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the… read more

Similar categories in Billy Dee Williams's What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown by Kenan Thompson

10. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

By: Kenan Thompson

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When I Was Your Age  is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more

Similar categories in Kenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are

By: Tariq Trotter

4.20

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

“Tariq Trotter . . . could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. Like the Russian novelist, Mr. Trotter has ref… read more

Similar categories in Tariq Trotter's The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own by Mike Greenberg

12. Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

By: Mike Greenberg

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

ESPN personality ( Get Up and #Greeny ) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partne… read more

Similar categories in Mike Greenberg's Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • audiobook
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13. 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

Similar categories in Rex Chapman's It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality by Mike Sielski

14. The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality

By: Mike Sielski

4.07

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

"A compelling origin story of a time that really wasn’t so long ago but through the lens of tragedy… read more

Similar categories in Mike Sielski's The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Somebody says I can't do something, and I want to go out and do it on purpose and do it in an unbelievable way."

-Mike Sielski, The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality

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15. 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

Similar categories in Timothy Bella's Barkley: A Biography book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Life's Too Short: A Memoir by Darius Rucker

16. Life's Too Short: A Memoir

By: Darius Rucker

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award–winning, Diamond-selling le… read more

Similar categories in Darius Rucker's Life's Too Short: A Memoir book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You by A'ja Wilson

17. Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You

By: A'ja Wilson

4.58

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP A’ja Wilson comes an inspiratio… read more

Similar categories in A'ja Wilson's Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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19. The Sixth Man

By: Andre Iguodala

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the champion G… read more

Similar categories in Andre Iguodala's The Sixth Man book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"A basketball player has to play for free for at least a year, a football player for three years before they are eligible to earn an income. But sports like tennis, baseball, golf, and even hockey all…"

-Andre Iguodala, The Sixth Man

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20. Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

By: Chris Paul

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! A powerful and unexpected memoir of family, faith… read more

Similar categories in Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever by Jack Curry

21. The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever

By: Jack Curry

4.14

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the inside story of the 1998 Yankees' unprecedented talent with this gripping account from… read more

Similar categories in Jack Curry's The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA by Kirk Goldsberry

22. Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA

By: Kirk Goldsberry

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic deco… read more

Similar categories in Kirk Goldsberry's Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes by Stephen A. Smith

23. Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes

By: Stephen A. Smith

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

America’s most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this surprisingly personal book, … read more

Similar categories in Stephen A. Smith's Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe by Jeezy

24. Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe

By: Jeezy

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER To Jeezy’s legion of fans, his name is synonymous… read more

Similar categories in Jeezy's Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter

25. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

Similar categories in Brian Stelter's Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of From the Outside: My Journey Through Life and the Game I Love by Ray Allen

26. From the Outside: My Journey Through Life and the Game I Love

By: Ray Allen

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The record-holding two-time National Basketball Association champion reflects on his work ethic, hi… read more

Similar categories in Ray Allen's From the Outside: My Journey Through Life and the Game I Love book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

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

27. 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

Similar categories in Andy McCullough's The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Game: An Autobiography by Grant Hill

28. Game: An Autobiography

By: Grant Hill

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The full, frank story of a remarkable life’s journey—to the pinnacle of success as a basketball pla… read more

Similar categories in Grant Hill's Game: An Autobiography book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Talk of Champions: Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir by Kenny Smith

29. Talk of Champions: Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir

By: Kenny Smith

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A revealing, humorous, behind-the-scenes memoir from Kenny "The Jet" Smith—superstar basketball com… read more

Similar categories in Kenny Smith's Talk of Champions: Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Hoop Atlas: Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the Modern NBA by Kirk Goldsberry

30. Hoop Atlas: Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the Modern NBA

By: Kirk Goldsberry

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of  Sprawlball , Kirk Goldsberry returns with a visual feast of a book—equal… read more

Similar categories in Kirk Goldsberry's Hoop Atlas: Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the Modern NBA book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of Every Shot Counts: A Memoir of Resilience by Carlos Boozer

31. Every Shot Counts: A Memoir of Resilience

By: Carlos Boozer

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"With  Every Shot Counts , I hope that you’ll be as inspired by Carlos' journey as I’ve been."—Shaq… read more

Similar categories in Carlos Boozer's Every Shot Counts: A Memoir of Resilience book and Chris Paul's Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court

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Transform Your Habits

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

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds

Rich Paul

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Letters to a Young Athlete

Chris Bosh

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Activate Your Greatness

Alex Toussaint

4.10

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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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