13 Top sports books like The Links by Robert Hunter

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The Links

By: Robert Hunter

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Students of golf course architecture are well aware of Robert Hunter ― and it’s all because of The …

If you liked the sports plot in The Links by Robert Hunter , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By: Michael Lewis

4.30

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more

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"Time is a variable continuum."

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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2. The Anatomy of a Golf Course: The Art of Golf Architecture

By: Tom Doak , Ben Crenshaw

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Behind every golf hole lies an influence on every golfer's game that few golfers ever the course a… read more

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3. The Greatest Game Ever Played

By: Mark Frost

4.50

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Ouimet and Vardon were two men from different generations and vastly different corners of the world… read more

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"... The only difference between realizing a dream and losing oneself in fantasy [is] backbreaking work."

-Mark Frost, The Greatest Game Ever Played

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4. Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy

By: Mark Broadie

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Columbia Business School professor Mark Broadie’s paradigm-shifting approach that uses statistics a… read more

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5. Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

By: Ernest Cline

3.43

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready? Days after winning Oasis founder James … read more

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"I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down."

-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

"I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission."

-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

"To quote Sarah Connor: ‘You’re all dead already.’ You, your friends, your customers—all of you. You poisoned your own planet, destroyed its climate, defiled its ecosystem, and killed off all of its b…"

-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

"But all I had to show for my efforts was an impressive familiarity with obscure Sailor Moon trivia and an inexplicable desire to cosplay as Tuxedo Mask (which I may or may not have acted upon in the …"

-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

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6. Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

By: Bob Rotella

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Filled with insightful stories about golf, Dr. Bob Rotella’s delightful book will improve the game … read more

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7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.92

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more

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"Tom!"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Company would be a palpable improvement"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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8. A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee

By: Tom Coyne

4.31

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

An epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world?s greatest round of golf I… read more

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9. Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game

By: Joseph Parent

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

The best players know that golf is a game of confidence, and most important, concentration-the abil… read more

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10. Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros

By: Tom Coyne

3.80

Format: 368 pages,

read more

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11. Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son

By: Kevin Cook

4.35

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Seabiscuit, the riveting tale of twoproud Scotsmen who beat all comers to becom… read more

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12. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

By: J.D. Vance

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a former Marine and Yale Law School Graduate, a poignant account of growing up in a poor Appal… read more

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13. Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf

By: Anthony Ravielli , Ben Hogan

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Hardcover

A timeless classic with nearly one million copies in print, Ben Hogan's Five Lessonsoutlines the bu… read more

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14. Golf in the Kingdom

By: Michael Murphy

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Since its first publication, Golf in the Kingdomhas been recognized as a classic work on the deeper… read more

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15. A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game

By: Tom Coyne

4.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the best golf books this century.” — Golf Digest From Tom Coyn… read more

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16. A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

By: Tom Coyne

4.30

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the span of one unforgettable year, Coyne crisscrosses the country in search of its greatest gol… read more

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"First tees no longer made me nervous, but somehow rangers still did."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"A holed ball was beautiful and final. All it left you were the stories of how it arrived there, powerless I change that plot."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"The land on which this game is played holds memories for a very long time, and once in a while, it lets us come back and walk around in them."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"People who don’t play golf pro to envy their golfing neighbors, admiring it as a nifty game you can play to a ripe old age. What they don’t understand is that we don’t keep playing because we can; we…"

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

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17. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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18. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

By: Peter Attia

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more

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19. The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

By: Dan Carlin

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apoca… read more

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"But it's never wise to bet against any of the four horsemen long term. Their historical track record is horrifyingly good."

-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

"It may seem strange to suggest that high levels of illness might make human beings tougher, but the effect on a society of relatively regular and lethal epidemics and the mortality they cause certain…"

-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

"The human ripples of pain are still heartbreaking when made visible to us now. Our friend Agnolo the Fat wrote: “Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to …"

-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up,' Voltaire reportedly said. The observation refers to the argument that fortunes of nations or civiliza…"

-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

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20. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By: David Grann

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklaho… read more

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"An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?"

-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

"The Osage elders sang the traditional songs for the dead, only now the songs seemed for the living, for those who had to endure this world of killing."

-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

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21. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

By: Stephen Fry

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and come… read more

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"Green fingers are better than gold."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Goodness me. You don’t ask for the moon, do you?"

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

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22. Golf Architecture for Normal People: Sharpening Your Course Design Eye to Make Golf (Slightly) Less Maddening

By: Geoff Shackelford

3.69

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

In Golf Architecture for Normal People, golf architecture expert Geoff Shackelford elucidates the w… read more

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23. Grounds for Golf: The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design

By: Geoff Shackelford

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Golfers dream of playing the legendary courses of the St. Andrews, Augusta National, Pinehurst, Pe… read more

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24. The Links

By: Robert Hunter

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Students of golf course architecture are well aware of Robert Hunter ― and it’s all because of The … read more

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25. Golf Architecture (Annotated): Economy in Course Construction and Green-Keeping

By: Alister Mackenzie

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

In Golf Architecture, famed architect Dr. Alister MacKenzie details the strict methods and philosop… read more

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26. The Spirit of St. Andrews

By: Alister Mackenzie

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Alister MacKenzie was one of golf's greatest architects.  He designed his courses so that players o… read more

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27. Golf Has Never Failed Me: The Lost Commentaries of Legendary Golf Architect Donald J. Ross

By: Donald J. Ross

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Many years before his death in 1948, legendary golf course architect Donald Ross wrote a book that … read more

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Cover of Great Britain and Ireland (The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, #1) by Tom Doak

28. Great Britain and Ireland (The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, #1)

By: Tom Doak

4.70

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

This all-new edition of The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses will be published in five volumes, w… read more

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29. The Americas - Winter Destinations (The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses #2)

By: Tom Doak

4.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

None read more

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30. The Architectural Side of Golf

By: H.N. Wethered

4.80

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Facsim. reprint, with a foreword by Arthur Hills. Originally published: London : Longmans & Co., 19… read more

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31. Scotland's Gift, Golf: Reminiscences by Charles Blair Macdonald

By: Charles Blair (C.B.) Macdonald

4.38

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Scotland’s Gift, Golf is a masterpiece of early golf literature, written by the Father of American … read more

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18 Top fiction books like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

Transform Your Habits

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

L.M. Montgomery

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Richard Howard , Dom Marcos Barbosa , None

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne

3.88

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