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Books like Bleachers

Loved Bleachers by John Grisham? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from sport, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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    Open

    Andre Agassi · 2009 · Sport

    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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    Lo strano caso dei Giochi Olimpici

    Elisabetta Dami · 2004 · Sport

    Geronimo goes to Athens to report on the Olympics, and after observing some of the games he and detective Hercule Poirat become suspicious about Cyrus von Snootrat who seems to be winning every Olympi

  3. 3

    Strategic Sports Event Management

    Guy Masterman · 2004 · Sport

    Comprehensive coverage of an important and growing theme and a valuable resource for students in the event and sport management fields.

  4. 4

    Seabiscuit

    Laura Hillenbrand · 2001 · Sport

    An undersized horse lifts Depression-era America; a beautifully told underdog story.

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    Eyeshield 21

    Riichiro Inagaki · 2005 · Sport

    Sena Kobayakawa has been a gofer for bullies his whole life. As a result, he runs at lightning-fast speeds. When he enters high school, his childhood friend Mamori suggests that he join a club to make

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    Guide des mouvements de musculation

    Frédéric Delavier · 2001 · Sport

    Contains full-color detailed anatomical drawings of exercises that target every major muscle group, along with full descriptions of how to perform them. The illustrations graphically depict both the m

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    Quidditch Through the Ages

    J. K. Rowling · 2001 · Sport

    A history of the sport Quidditch, answering such questions such as where the Golden Snitch came from, or why the Wigtown Wanterers have meat cleavers on their robes.

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    Darkest fear

    Harlan Coben · 2000 · Sport

    7th Myron Bolitar Novel Myron faces the most emotionally shattering case of his career. And it all begins when Myron’s ex-girlfriend tells him he is a father-of a dying 13-year-old boy.

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    Miracle in the Andes

    Nando Parrado · 2006 · Sport

    In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby tea

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    Promise Me

    Harlan Coben · 2006 · Sport

    It began with a promise... 2.17am: the phone rings on Myron Bolitar's nightstand; at the other end of the line is Aimee Biel - a frightened teenager who has called the one adult who had promised to he

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