31 Best nonfiction books like The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics by Michael Holley

Cover of The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics by Michael Holley

The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics

By: Michael Holley

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

** Selected by the Wall Street Journal among the Best Sports Books of 2021 ** A New York Times bes…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics by Michael Holley , here is a list of 31 books like this:

Cover of The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy by Bill Simmons

1. The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

By: Bill Simmons

4.20

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to wri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • basketball
"But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper."

-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

"If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up."

-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

Cover of Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stephen        King, Stewart O'Nan

2. Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season

By: Stephen King , Stewart O'Nan

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover

3. Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

By: Tim S. Grover

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Paperback

For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats--Michael Jordan, Kobe … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Basketball Junkie by Bill Reynolds, Chris Herren

4. Basketball Junkie

By: Bill Reynolds , Chris Herren

4.01

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

I was dead for thirty seconds. That's what the cop in Fall River told me. When the EMTs found me, … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • audiobook
Cover of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

5. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

3.78

Format: 377 pages,

Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Box… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty

6. Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

By: Phil Jackson , Hugh Delehanty

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Audio CD

During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson w… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger

7. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

By: H.G. Bissinger

3.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
Cover of Moneyball by Michael   Lewis

8. Moneyball

By: Michael Lewis

4.26

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

Cover of Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan

9. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

By: Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

10. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

11. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

By: Evan Drellich

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen

12. 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

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird

13. When the Game Was Ours

By: Larry Bird

4.23

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physic… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

14. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President by Edward F. O'Keefe

15. The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President

By: Edward F. O'Keefe

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

16. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of There's Just One Problem...: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE by Brian Gewirtz

17. There's Just One Problem...: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE

By: Brian Gewirtz

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former WWE head writer Brian Gewirtz brings readers behind the scenes for an unprecedented look at … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour

18. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion

By: Tom Beaujour

4.07

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more

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  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dynasty by Jeff Benedict

19. The Dynasty

By: Jeff Benedict

4.46

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris  Herring

20. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

By: Chris Herring

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman

21. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics by Dan Shaughnessy

22. Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics

By: Dan Shaughnessy

4.22

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Today the NBA is a vast global franchise—a billion-dollar industry seen by millions of fans in the … read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness by Seth Wickersham

23. It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness

By: Seth Wickersham

4.34

Format: 544 pages, ebook

Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL’s most dominant team,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time by Ian O'Connor

24. Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time

By: Ian O'Connor

4.09

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER The definitive biography of the NFL’s most enigmatic, controversial,… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S.C. Gwynne

25. Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.34

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played by Jeff Fletcher

26. Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played

By: Jeff Fletcher

3.77

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The story behind Shohei Ohtani's legendary MVP season as baseball's greatest two-way player--domina… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP by Mirin Fader

27. Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP

By: Mirin Fader

4.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the story of one of the most transcendent players in NBA history–from his early life livin… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • audiobook
Cover of KG: A to Z: An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between by David Ritz

28. KG: A to Z: An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between

By: David Ritz

4.10

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

NATIONAL BESTSELLER​ A unique, unfiltered memoir from the NBA champion and fifteen-time all-star ah… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • audiobook
"Diversity always makes me happy."

-David Ritz, KG: A to Z: An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between

"Perfection isn't possible. Aiming for perfection will make you crazy. I was crazy."

-David Ritz, KG: A to Z: An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between

Cover of The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics by Michael Holley

29. The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics

By: Michael Holley

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

** Selected by the Wall Street Journal among the Best Sports Books of 2021 ** A New York Times bes… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Head on: A Memoir by Larry Csonka

30. Head on: A Memoir

By: Larry Csonka

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

"No matter what your style, you have to take a beating."--Larry Csonka, Life magazine, October 6, 1… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of From Darkness to Dynasty: The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots by Jerry Thornton

31. From Darkness to Dynasty: The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots

By: Jerry Thornton

4.43

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

From Darkness to Dynasty tells the unlikely history of the New England Patriots as it has never bee… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook

24 Best audiobook books like The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics by Michael Holley

Transform Your Habits

Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season

Stephen King , Stewart O'Nan

3.10

Transform Your Habits

Basketball Junkie

Bill Reynolds , Chris Herren

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Moneyball

Michael Lewis

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

Kyle Buchanan

4.33

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12 Best history books like Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics by Dan Shaughnessy

Transform Your Habits

Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski

Ian O'Connor

4.26

Transform Your Habits

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

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Tall Men, Short Shorts: The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter

Leigh Montville

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

Chris Herring

4.30

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