The Best American Sports Writing 2020 (The Best American Series)
By: Jackie MacMullan
4.04
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year.F…
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1. Tar Baby
By: Toni Morrison
4.22
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Babyis Toni Morrison's reinvention of the lov… read more
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2. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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3. You Should Be So Lucky
By: Cat Sebastian
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more
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"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
4. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
5. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
6. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By: James Patterson
3.92
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
7. 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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8. 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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9. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
10. Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
4.04
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more
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"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"-Miriam Toews, Fight Night
11. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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12. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
13. Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues
By: Matt Jackson
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
"The Young Bucks are two guys who not only beat the odds to become one of the greatest, most popula… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
14. Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
By: Wright Thompson
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller! “A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand… read more
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- nonfiction
"What became clear in Michigan was that Julian and Sissy have become the fully realized version of themselves through success. That's actually rare. I profile famous and successful athletes for a livi…"-Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
15. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin
By: Aoife Moore
3.82
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more
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16. How Much of These Hills Is Gold
By: C Pam Zhang
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the… read more
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"Burial is just another recipe"-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold
"Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars."-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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
18. The Best American Essays 2022
By: Alexander Chee
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexand… read more
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19. Boy Friends
By: Michael Pedersen
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more
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"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends
20. 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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21. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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22. This is the Life: Days and Nights in the GAA
By: Ciarán Murphy
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and comm… read more
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23. The Best American Sports Writing 2019 (The Best American Series)
By: Charles P. Pierce
3.93
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year F… read more
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24. Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
By: Jessica Luther
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it’s … read more
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25. The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season
By: John Feinstein
3.88
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Thirty years ago after changing the sports book landscape with his mega-hit, A Season on the Brink… read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021
By: Ed Yong
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
New York Times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best scienc… read more
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27. The Best American Essays 2021
By: Kathryn Schulz
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff w… read more
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28. The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023
By: Glenn Stout
4.16
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism Richard Deitsch, a media reporter a… read more
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29. The Year's Best Sports Writing 2021
By: Glenn Stout
4.18
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
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30. The Year's Best Sports Writing 2022
By: Glenn Stout
4.06
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
J.A. Adande, ESPN personality and Director of Sports Journalism at Northwestern University's Medill… read more
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31. The Best American Sports Writing 2020 (The Best American Series)
By: Jackie MacMullan
4.04
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year.F… read more
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