The Courting of Marcus Dupree
By: Willie Morris
4.30
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against…
Want to Read $ 22.99"As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it."-Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree
"As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it."-Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree
"I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life."-Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree
"I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life."-Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree
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1. Francona: The Red Sox Years
By: Terry Francona , Dan Shaughnessy
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From 2004 to 2011, Terry Francona managed the Boston Red Sox, perhaps the most scrutinized team in … read more
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2. The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year In the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball , … read more
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3. A Payroll To Meet: A Story Of Greed, Corruption, and Football At SMU
By: David Whitford
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Hardcover
Southern Methodist University in Dallas is one of numerous prestigious universities in Texas. The s… read more
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4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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5. A House for Mr Biswas
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more
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6. The Cartel (Power of the Dog, #2)
By: Don Winslow
4.35
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The … read more
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"He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will."-Don Winslow, The Cartel (Power of the Dog, #2)
7. Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series
By: Dan Wetzel , Josh Peter , Jeff Passan
4.18
Format: 342 pages,
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8. Gun Monkeys
By: Victor Gischler
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlf… read more
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9. American Tabloid (Underworld USA, #1)
By: James Ellroy
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassina… read more
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10. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
11. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
12. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
13. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
14. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
15. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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16. Tom Clancy Weapons Grade
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4.35
Format: 507 pages, Kindle Edition
The aftermath of a shocking crime sends Jack Ryan Jr down a path that leads to international destru… read more
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17. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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18. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
By: Peter Baker
4.46
Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency ye… read more
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19. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
By: Joshua Robinson
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more
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"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
20. 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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21. 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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22. The Greatest Summer in Baseball History: How the '73 Season Changed Us Forever
By: John Rosengren
4.12
Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition
"The vivid story of a young Reggie Jackson on Charlie Finley's A's and the veteran Willie Mays on Y… read more
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23. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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24. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)
By: David McCloskey
4.30
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more
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25. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
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4.04
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Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more
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26. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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27. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
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4.20
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By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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28. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
By: Billy Walters
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more
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29. Magic: The Life of Earvin “Magic” Johnson
By: Roland Lazenby
4.16
Format: 818 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, from the highly respected… read more
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30. The Courting of Marcus Dupree
By: Willie Morris
4.30
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against… read more
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"As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it."-Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree
"I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidl…"-Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree
31. The Sinful Seven: Sci-fi Western Legends of the NCAA
By: Jason Kirk
4.52
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
A collaborative book, written and edited in just 11 weeks, that examines college sports through the… read more
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"We steal one thing at a time, split our spoils, and share with some in need. The Sheriff and his masters seek to steal it all forever for themselves. Their crime will become the way. The way will bec…"-Jason Kirk, The Sinful Seven: Sci-fi Western Legends of the NCAA
