What is considered a tempting read for the average soccer player? Well, Dirty Tackle compiled a list of the seemingly "hand-picked" titles on display. Here is a list of books from the team's training base which are in our library catalog:
Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho
Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs
Richard Branson’s Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom
George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones
Zack O’Malley Greenburg’s Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office [eBook]
Do you think many of these got read by the players? Would you be interested in reading a book endorsed by your favorite athlete? Since our Summer Reading theme (going strong until July 16th!) is Get in the Game: Read, we've compiled a list of other recent titles from the library catalog sports fans might enjoy:
Why Soccer Matters by Pelé
Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport by Simon Kuper
Gareth Bale: The Biography by Frank Worrall [eBook]
More Than a Team: A Father, a Son, and Barça
by Vicenç Villatoro [eBook]
Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer by Chuck Culpepper [eBook]
This Love is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez by Robert Andrew Powell [eBook]
Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer by David Goldblatt [eBook]
La Roja: How Soccer Conquered Spain and How Spanish Soccer Conquered the World by Jimmy Burns [eBook]
Find a Way by Diana Nyad
A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight by Maria Toorpakai with Katharine Holstein
Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World by Andy Bull
Badger: The Life of Bernard Hinault and the Legacy of French Cycling by William Fotheringham
Das Reboot: How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World by Raphael Honigstein
Great Men Die Twice: The Selected Works of Mark Kram edited by Mark Kram, Jr
Ping Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World by Nicholas Griffin
The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games by Ron Kaplan
The Three Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory by Julie Checkoway
This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn From the T-shirt Cannon by L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro On the Brink by Juliana Barbassa
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
Earnhardt Nation: The Full-Throttle Saga of NASCAR's First Family by Jay Busbee
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