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Sports Biography Books

The Legends Who Defined Sports and Athleticism

Make Your Bed

Make Your Bed

Admiral William H. McRaven

Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

Quackery

Quackery

Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.

The Games

The Games

David Goldblatt

A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

The Secret Lives of Color

The Secret Lives of Color

Kassia St. Clair

The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.

Range

Range

David Epstein

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Riverhead Books, 2019.

Do Hard Things

Do Hard Things

Steve Magness

Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. HarperOne, 2022.

Foolproof

Foolproof

Greg Ip

Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe. Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

The 48 Laws of Power

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.

The Practice of Groundedness

The Practice of Groundedness

Brad Stulberg

A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds—Not Crushes—Your Soul. Penguin Publishing, 2021.

Blue Mind

Blue Mind

Wallace J. Nichols

The Surprising Science that Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do. Little, Brown Spark. 2014.

Stoned

Stoned

Aja Raden

Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World. Harper Collins, 2015.

Hockey

Hockey

Andrew C. Holman, Stephen Hardy

A Global History. University of Illinois Press, 2018.

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