10 Best sports books like No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream by Michael Calvin

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No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

By: Michael Calvin

4.08

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This is the third part in Mike Calvin’s football book trilogy. First he wrote about scouts in The N…

If you liked the sports plot in No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream by Michael Calvin , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael   Lewis

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

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • nonfiction
"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. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

By: Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

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3. Penso quindi gioco

By: Andrea Pirlo , Alessandro Alciato

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

"Per me il gruppo conta tantissimo, ma se mi dimenticassi di me stesso toglierei forza proprio ai m… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Pirlo's Penso quindi gioco book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
"After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time."

-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco

"I don’t give a toss about pressure. I spent afternoon sleeping and playing Playstation. Then I went out and won the World Cup."

-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco

"It’s an enemy that I can’t allow to wound me a second time. It’s already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface."

-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco

"- Mino, toglimi una curiosità. Come si pronuncia il tuo cognome? Dove va l’accento? Ràiola o Raiòla? - Come vuoi tu, basta che mi paghi."

-Andrea Pirlo, Penso quindi gioco

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4. Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong

By: David Walsh

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist David Walsh, the definitive account of the author's twelve-year quest… read more

Similar categories in David Walsh's Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • sports
  • nonfiction
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5. A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke

By: Ronald Reng

3.62

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the biography of Robert Enke, the international… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Reng's A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football

6. Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

By: Carlo Ancelotti

0.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Ancelotti is Europe's greatest manager -- Paul Hayward Telegraph He's a great coach and an amazing … read more

Similar categories in Carlo Ancelotti's Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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7. 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

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's Moneyball book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • sports
  • nonfiction
"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

8. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

By: Giles Milton

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secre… read more

Similar categories in Giles Milton's Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

9. Invincible: Inside Arsenal's Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season

By: Arsène Wenger , Amy Lawrence

3.93

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In 2003-04, Arsenal overcame every conceivable challenge to complete a 38-game league without a sin… read more

Similar categories in Arsène Wenger's Invincible: Inside Arsenal's Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

10. Fever Pitch

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more

Similar categories in Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

Cover of Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) by David McCloskey

11. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

Similar categories in David McCloskey's Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

Cover of The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by The Secret Barrister

12. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer

13. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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14. The Wall

By: John Lanchester

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous … read more

Similar categories in John Lanchester's The Wall book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

"There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reason…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

"Home: it didn’t just seem as if home was a long way away, it actually felt as if the whole concept of home was strange, a thing you used to believe in, an ideology you’d once been passionate about bu…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

Cover of We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins

15. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

By: Eliot Higgins

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Higgins's We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman

16. Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

By: Isabel Hardman

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A newer edition of this book can be found here. Politicians are consistently voted the least trust… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Hardman's Why We Get the Wrong Politicians book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • nonfiction
Cover of A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris

17. A Calling for Charlie Barnes

By: Joshua Ferris

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris comes a “murderously funny” novel about a modern Am… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Ferris's A Calling for Charlie Barnes book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

Cover of Jordan Henderson: The Autobiography: The must-read autobiography from Liverpool’s beloved captain by Jordan Henderson

18. Jordan Henderson: The Autobiography: The must-read autobiography from Liverpool’s beloved captain

By: Jordan Henderson

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Born in Sunderland, Jordan Henderson began his football career there before moving to Liverpool in … read more

Similar categories in Jordan Henderson's Jordan Henderson: The Autobiography: The must-read autobiography from Liverpool’s beloved captain book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of 1999: Manchester United, the Treble and All That by Matt  Dickinson

19. 1999: Manchester United, the Treble and All That

By: Matt Dickinson

4.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HIL… read more

Similar categories in Matt Dickinson's 1999: Manchester United, the Treble and All That book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman by Jonathan Sayer

20. Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman

By: Jonathan Sayer

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan Sayer stands atop a beer crate to addres… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Sayer's Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • sports
  • football
Cover of No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream by Michael Calvin

21. No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

By: Michael Calvin

4.08

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This is the third part in Mike Calvin’s football book trilogy. First he wrote about scouts in The N… read more

Similar categories in Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream book and Michael Calvin's No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream

  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football

13 best-selling nonfiction books like No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream by Michael Calvin

Transform Your Habits

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Penso quindi gioco

Andrea Pirlo , Alessandro Alciato

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong

David Walsh

3.69

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Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

Jonas Jonasson , Rachel Willson-Broyles

2.00

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

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Saint Richard Parker

Merlin Franco

4.34

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