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Books like Live Wire
Loved Live Wire by Harlan Coben? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from sport, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
Sports writing captures something essential about competition, effort and what it means to push the body to its limits. This list spans 2007–2013 and includes 1 marked as essential reading in sport.
10 books · ranked
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Open
A tennis champion's startlingly honest memoir, including how much he hated the game; one of the best sports books ever written.
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Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Judy's big plans for the summer seem ruined when two of her best friends go away, and then her parents leave her and Stink with Aunt Opal, but a new "thrill-a-delic" plan has her racing toward fun. Ju
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Stink and the ultimate thumb-wrestling smackdown
After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
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The Sports Gene
Nature versus training in elite performance; a thoughtful, myth-busting look at talent.
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Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library
"A worthy successor to the original madman puzzle-master himself, Willy Wonka." --Booklist, Starred WHEN KYLE LEARNS THAT THE WORLD'S MOST famous game maker has designed the town's new library and is
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The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the
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Born to Run
Ultra-runners, a hidden tribe and the case that humans are built to run; infectious and fun.
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Soccernomics
Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology, and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game of soccer works, "Soccernomics" reveals the often surprisingly co
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9
Playing for Pizza
A former American football star joins the Parma Panthers to play football in a small town in Italy.
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Sport Management
Sport Management: principles and applications second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations. Ideal for all stude