The Cooperstown Casebook: Who’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Who Should Be In, and Who Should Pack Their Plaques
By: Jay Jaffe
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, tucked away in upstate New York in a small town call…
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1. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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- american history
- history
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"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
2. The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
By: Bill James
4.29
Format: 1012 pages, Paperback
When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immedia… read more
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3. The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
By: Joe Posnanski
4.12
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Baseball 100 “Posnanski offers an eloquent reminder that the great … read more
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4. The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
By: Shea Serrano
4.39
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap… read more
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"I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eye…"-Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
"A fast note about Ice-T's autobiography: There's a section where he tells a story about hanging out with Flavor Flav that involves going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari. I suspect the phrase "going to Re…"-Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
5. Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
By: Sheelah Kolhatkar
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The story of billionaire trader Steven Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund SAC Capital, and … read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
By: Dan Epstein
4.33
Format: None pages,
The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most col… read more
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- american history
- baseball
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- sports
7. The Cooperstown Casebook: Who’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Who Should Be In, and Who Should Pack Their Plaques
By: Jay Jaffe
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, tucked away in upstate New York in a small town call… read more
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- american history
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- nonfiction
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8. A Perfect Stranger: And Other Stories
By: Roxana Robinson
3.85
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In Roxana Robinson's lucid and elegant prose, her characters' inner worlds open up to us, revealing… read more
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9. Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s
By: Jason Turbow
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
How the Oakland A's of the 1970s--a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers--won three straig… read more
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- nonfiction
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10. 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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11. Asymmetry: A Novel
By: None
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of l… read more
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12. You Gotta Have Wa
By: Robert Whiting
3.50
Format: 168 pages,
Offers an intriguing and often humorous look at the differences and similarities between the nation… read more
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13. The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
By: Jeff Passan
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitcher… read more
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14. People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
By: Richard Lloyd Parry
4.24
Format: 376 pages,
An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman. Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, an… read more
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15. Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory
By: Bill James
3.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Arguing about the merits of players is the baseball fan's second favorite pastime and every year th… read more
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16. Summer of '49
By: David Halberstam
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns … read more
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17. 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
18. 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
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19. 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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20. The Baseball 100
By: Joe Posnanski
4.74
Format: 869 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more
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21. 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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22. Wayward
By: Dana Spiotta
3.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” ( The New York Time… read more
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"She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life."-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?"-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again."-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"I want things to be normal. I want you to call me and tell me about your life. I want to hear about Ally, and I want to talk politics. I want to garden, and walk my dog. I want my life as it is and a…"-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
23. Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
By: Luke Epplin
4.48
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbab… read more
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- baseball
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24. Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again
By: Shigeru Kayama
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla Godzilla em… read more
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25. Only to Sleep
By: Lawrence Osborne
3.59
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
The new Philip Marlowe novel, from Lawrence Osborne, a master of the psychological thriller In t… read more
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"There was, I thought, something calling to me from out in the dark. It came from out in the tempest, even from the lights of the fishing boats a mile out at sea. You can be called to a last effort, a…"-Lawrence Osborne, Only to Sleep
26. Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock
By: Steven Hyden
3.93
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening explo… read more
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"Just try to find an uncompelling photo of Fleetwood Mac taken at any point between 1975 and 1987. I've spent hours scouring Google Images in search of a single Fleetwood Mac band photo to which I am …"-Steven Hyden, Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock
27. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
By: Tyler Kepner
4.11
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling histor… read more
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- baseball
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28. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
By: Jennifer Raff
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how … read more
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29. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
By: Keith O'Brien
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more
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30. Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the next major work of baseball narrative… read more
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31. The National Baseball Hall of Fame Collection: Celebrating the Game's Greatest Players
By: James Buckley Jr.
4.17
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Officially licensed by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, this revised and updated volume gathers … read more
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