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How Soccer Explains the World

If you loved How Soccer Explains the World

Books like How Soccer Explains the World

If you loved How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

No. 2

Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby

No. 3

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Michael Lewis

No. 4

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

No. 5

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

H.G. Bissinger

No. 6

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Michael Lewis

No. 7

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

No. 8

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

No. 9

How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling

Frank Bettger

No. 10

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

No. 11

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales

No. 12

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins

No. 13

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

Mark Bowden

No. 14

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

No. 15

American Tabloid (Underworld USA, #1)

James Ellroy

No. 16

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Jonathan Kozol

No. 17

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

No. 18

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

A.J. Jacobs

No. 19

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Bill Buford

No. 20

When the Game Was Ours

Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson, Jackie MacMullan

No. 21

Falling Man

Don DeLillo, محمدصادق رئیسی

No. 22

Ball Four

Jim Bouton

No. 23

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

No. 24

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman