Here's a sports-themed booklist for you (ten fiction and five non-fiction), taking in football obsession, cricket in New York, the greatest boxing match ever and cycling as a way of life amongst others.
So, if you find yourself on the subs bench, you'll have plenty to read to pass the time.
Sport
Here's a sports-themed booklist for you (ten fiction and five non-fiction), taking in football obsession, cricket in New York, the greatest boxing match ever and cycling as a way of life amongst others.
So, if you find yourself on the subs bench, you'll have plenty to read to pass the time.
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It’s Not About the Bike
Yellow Jersey PressPeople around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong- a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France -
The Bicycle Diaries
Faber and FaberFilled with intimate photographs, incredible musical stories and a powerful ecological message, this is a enchanting celebration of bike riding. -
End Zone
PicadorEnd Zone is a clever, playful and, above all, funny novel, which confirms DeLillo's status as one of the great American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. -
The Match
BloomsburyAs the sun goes down at the end of the match he realises that love, like cricket, is more than just a game. He sees one last chance to get his life into focus, if only there is time. -
Fever Pitch
PenguinThe sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby's life- making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles. -
Lot of Hard Yakka: Triumph and Torment: A County Cricketer's Life
HeadlinePacked with hilarious and embarrassing anecdotes about some of the greatest cricketers of the last 20 years. -
The Fight
PenguinNorman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire, between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. -
The Natural
VintageThis is a book about heroism, and it is a strange one. What makes Roy Hobbs potentially a hero is his immense natural gift for playing baseball. -
Playing Days
Faber and FaberTinged with the melancholy and nostalgia of early steps into adulthood, it's the story of a young man's first experience of adult love, and of the discovery of his own limitations. -
Netherland
Harper PerennialNetherland is a novel of belonging and not belonging, and the uneasy state in between. -
Fight Club
VintageEvery weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. -
The Damned United
FaberThis is a brilliant portrait of a highly complex man; a feat of literary ventriloquism, and a powerful portrait of another era, when players warmed up with a couple of pints, a game of cards and a packet of fags,... -
Double Fault
Serpent's TaleEver since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. -
The Loneliness of the Long distance Runner
Harper PerennialSillitoe's depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago. -
Infinite Jest
AbacusThe residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest
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