Memoir · Similar reads
Books like Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger is about small-town america, race and class, identity. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis · Business
Moneyball is Michael Lewis's account of how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, used statistical analysis to compete against teams with payrolls three times larger.
Read the summary → - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown · History
The Boys in the Boat is the story of the University of Washington crew team that won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, defeating Nazi Germany's squad on Hitler's home course.
Read the summary → - Open: An Autobiography
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Andre Agassi · Memoir
Andre Agassi's autobiography opens with one of the most famous confessions in sports memoir: he hates tennis.
Read the summary → - Can't Hurt Me
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David Goggins · Memoir
Can't Hurt Me is David Goggins's memoir of escaping an abusive childhood, failing military entrance requirements, becoming a Navy SEAL, and then becoming one of the most accomplished endurance athletes in the world — not through talent or privilege but through a deliberate, painful process of forcing himself past every limit he had.
Read the summary → - Born to Run
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Christopher McDougall · Health
Born to Run begins as a personal injury investigation.
Read the summary → - 10% Happier
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Dan Harris · Memoir
10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.
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