Do you want to read more about sports because of the Olympics? Now hereScott Tong receives book recommendations from Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast.
Book recommendations from Traci Thomas
Non-fiction
- “Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports” by Dave Zirin
- “Unbroken: A Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption from World War II” by Laura Hillenbrand
- “Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose and the Last Glory Days of Baseball” by Keith O’Brien
- “The Sixth Man: A Memoir” by Andre Iguodala
- “This year there is always: About basketball and Ascension” by Hanif Abdurraqib
- “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis
- “Coming Home” by Britney Griner with Michelle Burford
- “Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Falling of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters” by Joan Ryan
- “Among the Thugs” by Bill Buford
- “One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and Israel’s Wrath of God Revenge” by Simon Reeve
- “We Shall Win: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality” by Louis Moore
- “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sport” by Michael Waters
- “Land of Second Chances: The Impossible Rise of the Rwandan Cycling Team” by Tim Lewis
- “The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team and How They Changed the World” by Jere Longman
- “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen” by Christopher McDougall
- “Victory, Stand: Raising My Fist for Justice” by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile
fiction
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