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10 Football Books You Must Read

Added 2025-10-29 · 10 books
North Dallas Forty
by Peter Gent
“The novel spans eight days in the life of a pro football team, starting and ending on a Monday, the day after a game.”
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain
“This is brilliantly done; by now, in fact, everything is brilliantly done.”
A Fan's Notes
by Frederick Exley
“Simply a brilliant, totally original novel”

Bonsai Books

Added 2026-01-18 · 10 books
Bonsai Master Class
by Craig Coussins
Heresy
by Michael Hagedorn
Indoor Bonsai
by Paul Lesniewicz

Top 10 Nonfiction Books About Politics

Added 2025-10-23 · 11 books
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
“The new system of racialized control that Alexander describes is perhaps even more destructive and dangerous than Jim Crow segregation in two ways. First, because the current syste…”
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
by Colin Woodard
“Woodard provides a bracing corrective to an accepted national narrative that too often overlooks regional variations.”
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
“This first volume of the former president's memoirs brims with warmth, humor and introspection.”

The 10 Best Norman Mailer Books

Added 2026-01-17 · 10 books
The Fight
by Norman Mailer
“Mailer is obsessed with race but in a very unrefined, non-thought-through way.”
Why Are We in Vietnam?
by Norman Mailer
“Why Are We in Vietnam? is Mailer's most profoundly pessimistic book.”
The Time of Our Time
by Norman Mailer
“Read this hefty collection at one go and wonder at his reputation.”

Most Recommended Books

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Beloved

Beloved

by Toni Morrison On 13 lists
“The characters are complex.”
★ 4.42 / 5 Literary Fiction
The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins On 12 lists
“This is my favorite dystopian read.”
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen On 12 lists
“Up until about page one hundred I found this book vexing, frivolous and down right tedious.”
★ 4.37 / 5 Romance
In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote On 12 lists
“If the moral clash between Herb Clutter and his killers lies at the core of In Cold Blood, a clash of a cultural kind lay behind its writing.”
★ 4.40 / 5 True Crime
The Hobbit

The Hobbit

by JRR Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien, J R R Tolkien On 11 lists
“This may be a failing in real-world terms, but it plays to Tolkien's strengths as a storyteller: mystery, suspense, and action.”
★ 3.61 / 5 Fantasy