6 Top football books like My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper by Briana Scurry

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My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

By: Briana Scurry

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and painfully honest memoir from the trailblazing, World Cup–winning, Olympic gold …

If you liked the football plot in My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper by Briana Scurry , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening

By: John Elder Robison , Marcel Just , Alvaro Pascual-Leon

3.89

Format: 321 pages, Audio CD

An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and… read more

Similar categories in John Elder Robison's Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Solo: A Memoir of Hope by Hope Solo, Ann Killion

2. Solo: A Memoir of Hope

By: Hope Solo , Ann Killion

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Glass Castle meets A League of Their Own in Solo , a candid and moving memoir about family, los… read more

Similar categories in Hope Solo's Solo: A Memoir of Hope book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • soccer
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
"True heros are made of hard work and integrity."

-Hope Solo, Solo: A Memoir of Hope

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3. Forward: A Memoir

By: Karen Abbott , Abby Wambach

3.24

Format: 0 pages, ebook

Forwardis the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in … read more

Similar categories in Karen Abbott's Forward: A Memoir book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook

4. When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World

By: Wayne Coffey , Carli Lloyd

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated star of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, an inspiring, uplifting, and can… read more

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5. Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more

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  • audiobook
  • sports
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

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6. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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7. Lioness: My Journey to Glory

By: Beth Mead

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

With foreword by Ian Wright & afterword by Jermain Defoe Beth Mead is one of the world's most ta… read more

Similar categories in Beth Mead's Lioness: My Journey to Glory book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden

8. Choosing to Run: A Memoir

By: Des Linden

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more

Similar categories in Des Linden's Choosing to Run: A Memoir book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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9. WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

By: Abby Wambach

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York C… read more

Similar categories in Abby Wambach's WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Note: When they say you're ridiculous, you know you're onto something."

-Abby Wambach, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

"[...] insist upon remembering. Because we know that the lessons of yesterday's loss become the fuel for tomorrow's win."

-Abby Wambach, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

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10. 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

Similar categories in Brittney Griner's Coming Home book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • queer
"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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11. One Life

By: Megan Rapinoe

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World… read more

Similar categories in Megan Rapinoe's One Life book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • queer
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12. Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

By: Christine Yu

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“ Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and dis… read more

Similar categories in Christine Yu's Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

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

13. 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 Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

14. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

By: Krista Burton

3.86

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more

Similar categories in Krista Burton's Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • memoir
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"

-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

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15. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

By: Cecelia Watson

3.67

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494"

-Cecelia Watson, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

"At times I've felt less like a punctuation theorist than like a punctuation therapist"

-Cecelia Watson, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Cover of Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts by Maya Moore Irons

16. Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

By: Maya Moore Irons

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husba… read more

Similar categories in Maya Moore Irons's Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper by Briana Scurry

17. My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

By: Briana Scurry

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and painfully honest memoir from the trailblazing, World Cup–winning, Olympic gold … read more

Similar categories in Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • soccer
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • queer
Cover of Pride of a Nation: A Celebration of the US Women's National Soccer Team (An Official U.S. Soccer Book) by Gwendolyn Oxenham

18. Pride of a Nation: A Celebration of the US Women's National Soccer Team (An Official U.S. Soccer Book)

By: Gwendolyn Oxenham

4.45

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The first official history of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, celebrating nearly four decade… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Oxenham's Pride of a Nation: A Celebration of the US Women's National Soccer Team (An Official U.S. Soccer Book) book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky

19. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

By: Katie Ledecky

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more

Similar categories in Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters

20. The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

By: Oksana Masters

4.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Par… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Playing the Long Game: A Memoir by Christine Sinclair

21. Playing the Long Game: A Memoir

By: Christine Sinclair

3.94

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Chri… read more

Similar categories in Christine Sinclair's Playing the Long Game: A Memoir book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • soccer
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer by Caitlin  Murray

22. The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer

By: Caitlin Murray

4.46

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team has won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set re… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Murray's The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
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23. Beautiful on the Outside

By: Adam Rippon

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Former Olympic figure skater and self-professed America's Sweetheart Adam Rippon shares his underdo… read more

Similar categories in Adam Rippon's Beautiful on the Outside book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer by Suzanne Wrack

24. A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer

By: Suzanne Wrack

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and comprehensive history charting the rise, fall, and rise again of women's soccer W… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Wrack's A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • biography
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
Cover of Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal by Ken Bensinger

25. Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal

By: Ken Bensinger

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal—the biggest international corruption case of r… read more

Similar categories in Ken Bensinger's Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives by Kelcey Parker Ervick

26. The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives

By: Kelcey Parker Ervick

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times Book Review, "[R]eaders will certainly want to linger on the beautiful dep… read more

Similar categories in Kelcey Parker Ervick's The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog by Maybell Eequay

27. The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog

By: Maybell Eequay

4.70

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Globally loved, the little frog is the creation of Maybell Eequay and appears in this charming book… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of When the Vibe Is Right by Sarah Dass

28. When the Vibe Is Right

By: Sarah Dass

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Where the Rhythm Takes You comes a delightful enemies-to-lovers contemporary rom… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dass's When the Vibe Is Right book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • audiobook
Cover of A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins

29. A Little Kissing Between Friends

By: Chencia C. Higgins

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the stud… read more

Similar categories in Chencia C. Higgins's A Little Kissing Between Friends book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"No less than forty-five minutes after giving birth, a memo is sent out informing the life-bringer that their time as a bad bitch has expired and they are henceforth Somebody’s Mama and must act accor…"

-Chencia C. Higgins, A Little Kissing Between Friends

Cover of Jenny James Is Not a Disaster by Debbie  Johnson

30. Jenny James Is Not a Disaster

By: Debbie Johnson

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it takes life falling apart . . . to piece yourself back together. Single mum Jenny is o… read more

Similar categories in Debbie Johnson's Jenny James Is Not a Disaster book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • audiobook
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31. Inaugural Ballers

By: Andrew Maraniss

4.25

Format: None pages, None

From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational true story of t… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Maraniss's Inaugural Ballers book and Briana Scurry's My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It was the USSR, as an emerging basketball power in the 1950s, that first called on Olympic leaders to officially add women's basketball to the program as a medal sport, a half century after the Fort…"

-Andrew Maraniss, Inaugural Ballers

"It meant that I and every other woman I knew had been living a lie, and all the doctors who treated us and the experts who studied us were perpetuating that lie, and our homes and schools and churche…"

-Andrew Maraniss, Inaugural Ballers

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Forward: A Memoir

Karen Abbott , Abby Wambach

3.24

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Cleat Cute

Meryl Wilsner

3.77

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Lioness: My Journey to Glory

Beth Mead

4.60

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Choosing to Run: A Memoir

Des Linden

4.28

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Simon Winchester

3.84

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Derek Beres

4.10

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Dennis Duncan

3.68

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