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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

If you loved The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

Books like The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

If you loved The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy by Bill Simmons, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Jordan Rules

Sam Smith, Doug Grud

No. 2

When the Game Was Ours

Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson, Jackie MacMullan

No. 3

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales

No. 4

Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

Jack McCallum

No. 5

Ball Four

Jim Bouton

No. 6

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Michael Lewis

No. 7

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Michael Lewis

No. 8

The Zombie Room

R.D. Ronald

No. 9

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

H.G. Bissinger

No. 10

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1

Frank Miller

No. 11

Annie on My Mind

Nancy Garden

No. 12

Open

Andre Agassi, J.R. Moehringer

No. 13

I Suck at Girls

Justin Halpern

No. 14

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

No. 15

A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Karen Armstrong

No. 16

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Daniel J. Levitin

No. 17

The Elephant Tree

R.D. Ronald

No. 18

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

No. 19

Delicious!

Ruth Reichl

No. 20

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

Chuck Klosterman

No. 21

Chronicles, Vol. 1

Bob Dylan

No. 22

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Oliver Sacks

No. 23

Heat

Mike Lupica

No. 24

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Chuck Klosterman