Are you looking for some new sports books to read? Then check out Booklist's Top 10 Sports Nondfiction: 2018 list. The list includes the sports of boxing, swimming, track & field, basketball, football, tennis. One might find inspiration in the most unexpected places.
Ali by Jonathan Eig. 2017.
All the Dreams We’ve Dreamed: A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago’s West Side by Rus Bradburd. 2018.
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian by Yusra Mardini. 2018.
Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women by Roseanne Montillo. 2017.
Hang Time: My Life in Basketball by Elgin Baylor and Alan Eisenstock. 2018.
Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City by Albert Samaha. 2018.
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas by Michael Hurd. 2017.
Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story by Wyomia Tyus and Elizabeth Terzakis. 2018. (to be ordered)
Tigerland, 1968–1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, a Magical Year of Healing by Wil Haygood. 2018.
Unstoppable: My Life So Far by Maria Sharapova. 2017.