Top Ten Best Selling Sports Books by Genre: Baseball, Football, Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Running, Boxing, Golf, Horse Racing

Baseball

1. “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis
2. “Ball Four” by Jim Bouton
3. “The Boys of Summer” by Roger Kahn
4. “Shoeless Joe” by W.P. Kinsella
5. “The Natural” by Bernard Malamud
6. “Eight Men Out” by Eliot Asinof
7. “The Glory of Their Times” by Lawrence S. Ritter
8. “The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron” by Howard Bryant
9. “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball” by George F. Will
10. “Wait Till Next Year” by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Football (American)

11. “Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream” by H.G. Bissinger
12. “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” by Michael Lewis
13. “Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer” by Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap
14. “When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi” by David Maraniss
15. “America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation” by Michael MacCambridge
16. “A Few Seconds of Panic” by Stefan Fatsis
17. “North Dallas Forty” by Peter Gent
18. “Paper Lion” by George Plimpton
19. “Paterno” by Joe Posnanski
20. “You Can’t Make This Up” by Al Michaels and L. Jon Wertheim

Basketball

21. “The Jordan Rules” by Sam Smith
22. “When the Game Was Ours” by Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson, and Jackie MacMullan
23. “Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made” by David Halberstam
24. “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success” by Phil Jackson
25. “The Breaks of the Game” by David Halberstam
26. “Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior” by Phil Jackson
27. “Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association” by Terry Pluto
28. “Life on the Run” by Bill Bradley
29. “My Losing Season” by Pat Conroy
30. “Heaven Is a Playground” by Rick Telander

Soccer

31. “Fever Pitch” by Nick Hornby
32. “The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer” by David Goldblatt
33. “Soccernomics” by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
34. “Among the Thugs” by Bill Buford
35. “How Soccer Explains the World” by Franklin Foer
36. “The Damned Utd” by David Peace
37. “Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics” by Jonathan Wilson
38. “Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life” by Alex Bellos
39. “The Miracle of Castel di Sangro” by Joe McGinniss
40. “Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football” by David Winner

Tennis

41. “Open: An Autobiography” by Andre Agassi
42. “Levels of the Game” by John McPhee
43. “Rafa: My Story” by Rafael Nadal and John Carlin
44. “A Handful of Summers” by Gordon Forbes
45. “Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played” by Jon Wertheim
46. “You Cannot Be Serious” by John McEnroe
47. “The Inner Game of Tennis” by W. Timothy Gallwey
48. “String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis” by David Foster Wallace
49. “Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports” by Susan Ware
50. “Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis” by Brad Gilbert and Steve Jamison

Running

51. “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen” by Christopher McDougall
52. “Once a Runner” by John L. Parker Jr.
53. “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” by Haruki Murakami
54. “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner” by Dean Karnazes
55. “The Perfect Mile” by Neal Bascomb
56. “Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth” by Adharanand Finn
57. “Eat & Run” by Scott Jurek
58. “Run or Die” by Kilian Jornet
59. “Running with the Buffaloes” by Chris Lear
60. “Deerfoot: Athletics’ Noble Savage” by Robert W. Henderson

Boxing

61. “King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero” by David Remnick
62. “Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History” by Jeremy Schaap
63. “The Fight” by Norman Mailer
64. “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson” by Geoffrey C. Ward
65. “In This Corner…!: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories” by Peter Heller
66. “Shadow Box” by George Plimpton
67. “Hands of Stone: The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran” by Christian Giudice
68. “Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King” by Jack Newfield
69. “The Sweet Science” by A.J. Liebling
70. “A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ’20s” by Roger Kahn

Golf

71. “A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour” by John Feinstein
72. “Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf” by Ben Hogan
73. “Golf is Not a Game of Perfect” by Dr. Bob Rotella
74. “The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods” by Hank Haney
75. “Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in Golf” by Harvey Penick
76. “Arnie: The Life of Arnold Palmer” by Tom Callahan
77. “The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever” by Mark Frost
78. “A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee” by Tom Coyne
79. “Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes” by Stephen Goodwin
80. “The Masters: Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia” by Curt Sampson

Horse Racing

81. “Seabiscuit: An American Legend” by Laura Hillenbrand
82. “Ruffian: Burning from the Start” by Jane Schwartz
83. “Man o’ War: A Legend Like Lightning” by Dorothy Ours
84. “Secretariat: The Making of a Champion” by William Nack
85. “My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track” by Nan Mooney
86. “The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told” by Mark Paul
87. “War Admiral: Thoroughbred Legends” by Edward L. Bowen
88. “The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World’s Greatest Racehorse” by Lawrence Scanlan
89. “Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America’s Premier Racing Dynasty” by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach
90. “D. Wayne: The High-Rolling and Fast Times of America’s Premier Horse Trainer” by Carlo DeVito

Miscellaneous

91. “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics” by Daniel James Brown
92. “Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster” by Jon Krakauer
93. “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life” by William Finnegan
94. “The Art of Fielding” by Chad Harbach
95. “The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball” by John Feinstein
96. “The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life” by Steven Pressfield
97. “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey” by Muhammad Ali and Hana Yasmeen Ali
98. “Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors” by Piers Paul Read
99. “Solo: A Memoir of Hope” by Hope Solo
100. “The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France” by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle

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