8 Best biography memoir books like When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback by Michael Leahy

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When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

By: Michael Leahy

4.22

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

As one of the greatest, most celebrated athletes in history, Michael Jordan conquered professional …

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1. The Fall of Berlin 1945

By: Antony Beevor

4.29

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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2. 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

Similar categories in Bill Simmons's The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • 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 Shaq Uncut: My Story by Shaquille O'Neal, Jackie MacMullan

3. Shaq Uncut: My Story

By: Shaquille O'Neal , Jackie MacMullan

4.06

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Superman. Diesel. The Big Aristotle. Shaq Fu. The Big Daddy. The Big Shaqtus. Wilt Chamberneezy. Th… read more

Similar categories in Shaquille O'Neal's Shaq Uncut: My Story book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • biography
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby

4. Michael Jordan: The Life

By: Roland Lazenby

4.31

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of a legendary athleteThe Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is… read more

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  • biography
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
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5. Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson

By: Kent Babb

3.90

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

“This is more than just great sports writing, this is writing at its best. Babb strips away the pub… read more

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  • biography
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
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6. Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns

By: Jack McCallum

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In "Seven Seconds or Less, Sports Illustrated"'s chief NBA writer, Jack McCallum, gets in the paint… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • basketball
Cover of The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed  Basketball Forever by John Feinstein

7. The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever

By: John Feinstein

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

With unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein explores in riv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • basketball
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8. Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend

By: Bill Russell , Alan Steinberg , Alan J. Steinberg

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

"Bill Russell was the greatest team basketball player ever....[He] has produced a moving tribute to… read more

Similar categories in Bill Russell's Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • basketball
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9. Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich

By: Mark Kriegel

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

"Pistol" is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of… read more

Similar categories in Mark Kriegel's Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

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

10. 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

Similar categories in Phil Jackson's Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • basketball
Cover of The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey

11. The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams

By: Darcy Frey

3.61

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • basketball

12. The Jordan Rules

By: None , None

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

A SUPER TEAM...A SUPERSTAR...A SUPER EGO The most gifted athlete ever to play the game, Michael Jor… read more

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13. Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution

By: Jonathan Abrams

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, never-before-told story of the prep-to-pro generation, those basketball prodigies w… read more

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14. Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine

By: George Dohrmann

3.37

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Eight years of unfettered access, a keen sense of a story's deepest truths, and a genuine compassio… read more

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15. Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated

By: Shea Serrano , Reggie Miller , Arturo Torres

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Timesbestseller Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jo… read more

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16. The Breaks of the Game

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Among the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia Inquirer David Hal… read more

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17. Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

From The Breaks of the Gameto Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a grea… read more

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18. Hoops Whisperer

By: None

3.56

Format: 259 pages,

Basketball's most unlikely--and most sought-after--training guru offers an inside look at his caree… read more

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19. Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s

By: Jeff Pearlman

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

TheNew York Timesbestselling author of Sweetnessdelivers the first all-encompassing account of the … read more

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20. Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant

By: Roland Lazenby

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the Cross British Sports Biography of the Year Award in the UK"With surgical precision… read more

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21. Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

By: Jack McCallum

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

They were the Beatles of basketball, the MercurySeven in sneakers. In Dream Team, acclaimed sports … read more

Similar categories in Jack McCallum's Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

22. A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

By: John Feinstein

4.08

Format: 288 pages,

"A Season on the Brink" chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the In… read more

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23. 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

Similar categories in Larry Bird's When the Game Was Ours book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • biography
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

24. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • biography
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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25. The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

By: Kobe Bryant

4.26

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe “The Black Mamba” Bryant has decid… read more

Similar categories in Kobe Bryant's The Mamba Mentality: How I Play book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • basketball
"You have to work hard in the dark to shine in the light"

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

"Good coaches tell you where the fish are, great coaches teach you how to find them."

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

"If you want to be a better player, you have to prepare, prepare, and prepare some more."

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

"If you really want to be great at something you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it."

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

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26. 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

Similar categories in Jeff Benedict's The Dynasty book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

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

27. 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

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • basketball
Cover of Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA by Kirk Goldsberry

28. Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA

By: Kirk Goldsberry

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic deco… read more

Similar categories in Kirk Goldsberry's Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11) by Scott Turow

29. The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

By: Scott Turow

3.86

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

In this explosive legal thriller from New York Times bestselling author Scott Turow, two formidable… read more

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"Hope, that blind songbird. It flies through the bleakest skies."

-Scott Turow, The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

"That is one of the tragedies of aging, appreciating how many good and interesting people have passed by unknown."

-Scott Turow, The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

"He has developed an aesthete's appreciation for the knavishness, the guile, the selfish cleverness of so many of his clients, appreciating human misbehavior for its miserable creativity. In almost ev…"

-Scott Turow, The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

"In the last two decades, Stern and Helen had their share of friends relocate to Florida to escape state income and inheritance taxes up north. As far as Stern is concerned, no amount of money is wort…"

-Scott Turow, The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

Cover of Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by Sam Anderson

30. Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

By: Sam Anderson

4.38

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
"Oklahoma City has chaos in its DNA."

-Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

"Oklahoma City is tiny and huge at the same time."

-Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

"Most places have one sky. Oklahoma city has about 12."

-Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

"If a Starbucks drink could be a church, it would be LifeChurch.TV"

-Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

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31. When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

By: Michael Leahy

4.22

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

As one of the greatest, most celebrated athletes in history, Michael Jordan conquered professional … read more

Similar categories in Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback book and Michael Leahy's When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

  • biography
  • basketball
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports

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Transform Your Habits

The Fall of Berlin 1945

Antony Beevor

4.29

Transform Your Habits

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

Bill Simmons

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Shaq Uncut: My Story

Shaquille O'Neal , Jackie MacMullan

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Michael Jordan: The Life

Roland Lazenby

4.31

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Roland Lazenby

4.31

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The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance

Tom Brady

3.44

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LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

Alan Shipnuck

4.14

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Rich Cohen

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