10 Best sports books like Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice by Ben Rothenberg

Cover of Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice by Ben Rothenberg

Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice

By: Ben Rothenberg

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A deeply reported, revealing biography of tennis phenomenon and activist Naomi Osaka, telling the u…

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Cover of The Outsider: A Memoir by Jimmy Connors

1. The Outsider: A Memoir

By: Jimmy Connors

3.44

Format: 198 pages, ebook

Jimmy Connors is a working-man's hero, a people's champion who could tear the cover off a tennis ba… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

2. The Expendable Man

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more

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3. Levels of the Game

By: John McPhee

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968… read more

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4. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis

By: David Foster Wallace , John Jeremiah Sullivan

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best … read more

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5. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • sports
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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7. The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

This  New York Times  bestselling biography tells the life story of the most iconic men's tennis pl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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8. Unbreakable

By: Jelena Dokic

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King

9. All In: An Autobiography

By: Billie Jean King

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of a champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant te… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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10. Big Love: Reclaiming myself, my people, my country

By: Brooke Blurton

4.34

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

11. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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12. Ghost Girl, Banana

By: Wiz Wharton

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1… read more

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13. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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14. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Still Standing: What I've learnt from a life lived differently by Jessica Quinn

15. Still Standing: What I've learnt from a life lived differently

By: Jessica Quinn

4.30

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Jess Quinn's inspirational memoir tells her story of losing her leg to cancer as a nine-year-old an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World by Todd Rogers

16. Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World

By: Todd Rogers

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Writing well is for school. Writing effectively is for life . Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink o… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson

17. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD by Matilda Boseley

18. The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

By: Matilda Boseley

4.45

Format: 433 pages, ebook

Matilda Boseley’s adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a presc… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller

19. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All

By: Chanel Miller

4.48

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more

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Cover of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs

20. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu

21. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

By: Jing Tsu

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more

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

22. 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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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon

23. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Cover of Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice by Ben Rothenberg

24. Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice

By: Ben Rothenberg

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A deeply reported, revealing biography of tennis phenomenon and activist Naomi Osaka, telling the u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis by Conor Niland

25. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis

By: Conor Niland

4.38

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church by David Hardaker

26. Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church

By: David Hardaker

3.88

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston.In 2023 the cur… read more

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  • biography
Cover of The Secret by Alexandra Smith

27. The Secret

By: Alexandra Smith

3.36

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Gladys Berejiklian was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman to lead NSW, she steered the s… read more

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  • biography
Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

28. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Tilda Is Visible by Jane Tara

29. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman starts to disappear—literally—in midlife, and only then begins to discover herself in this … read more

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"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

Cover of Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness by Scott Morrison

30. Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness

By: Scott Morrison

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a… read more

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  • biography

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Jimmy Connors

3.44

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Christopher Clarey

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4.38

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