Sports and Leisure

Recent movers and shakers in sports and leisure.

Updated July 11, 2026
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Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It
Jane Leavy
Paper Book
"Make Jane Commissioner... Leavy has a voice demanding to be heard--and Major League Baseball should listen."-- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL A New York Times bestselling biographer and lifelong baseball devotee takes readers on an epic journey...
Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis
Giri Nathan
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY * THE NEW YORKER * NPR * TOWN & COUNTRY * The story of Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and their epic rivalry, as told by "the best tennis writer in America" (Brian Phillips,...
American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback
Seth Wickersham
Paper Book
Pull back the curtain on the most powerful position in all of sports. The New York Times bestselling author of It's Better to be Feared examines football's QB lifecycle- high school, college, the NFL, retirement-and all that comes with it. *** The Instant New York Times...
Every Day Is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell Turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut
Ken Belson
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 - One of Barnes & Noble's Best Sports Books of 2025 From veteran New York Times Business & NFL reporter, Ken Belson, a deeply-reported account of how the NFL's Commissioner, Roger Goodell, and its two most...
Misunderstood: A Memoir
Allen Iverson
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A compelling and candid memoir from Allen Iverson, the NBA's most misunderstood Hall of Famer, detailing his tough childhood in Virginia, his entry into the league as the number one overall pick, and his controversial, culture-changing pro...
Expensive Basketball
Shea Serrano
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One of Barnes & Noble's Best Sports Books of 2025 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rap Year Book and Basketball (and Other Things), a clever and inventive examination of some of...
Never Stop: Life, Leadership, and What It Takes to Be Great
Dan Hurley
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Dan Hurley is one of the most famous head coaches in America today--in any sport. He returned the UConn Huskies men's basketball team to their rightful place among the nation's elite, winning back-to-back NCAA Championships, and he did it with...
Brady vs. Belichick: The Dynasty Debate
Gary Myers
Paper Book
A unique and unparalleled look into the nature and relationship of two of the pillars in the NFL's greatest dynasty. The greatest dynasty in NFL history stood on two pillars - Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Together they forged a working relationship that provided thrilling...
A Hollywood Ending: The Dreams and Drama of the LeBron Lakers
Yaron Weitzman
Paper Book
NBA journalist Yaron Weitzman lays out the high stakes drama happening inside the Lakers' organization as they try to juggle the warring priorities between LeBron James and the Buss family. When LeBron James signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018, it looked like a match made...
Heartbeats: A Memoir (English Edition)
Bjorn Borg
Ebook
Shot Ready
Stephen Curry
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Shot Ready is a powerful distillation of Stephen Curry's transformative philosophy of success--centered on preparation, constant improvement, creativity, connection, mindfulness, and joy--delivered in his incomparable voice and style....
Mamba & Mambacita Forever
Vanessa Bryant
Paper Book
A beautiful and moving testament to the enduring life of Kobe Bryant and the Mamba Mentality. When Kobe and Gianna Bryant died, tragically and unexpectedly, in 2020, the world mourned with a wholehearted ferocity. In perhaps the largest and most intense outpouring of public...
Madden & Summerall: How They Revolutionized NFL Broadcasting
Rich Podolsky
Paper Book
Madden & Summerall tells the inside story of how two unlikely partners became the greatest broadcast duo in NFL history. This is the story of how John Madden and Pat Summerall got to CBS and, although very different, how they became the greatest broadcast team of...
The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
Nicholas Thompson
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A profound meditation on what running can teach us about our limits and our lives by a record-setting distance runner who is now the CEO of The Atlantic. "This is not just an engaging memoir about...
How to Read F1
Jennie Gow
Paper Book
'Formula 1 is as complex as it is competitive, existing in a world which has built up a language almost unique to itself. Jennie has been working the Formula 1 pitlanes and paddocks of the world since before many of today's superstars had even started karting. She knows the sport inside out. There's...
The Last Hart Beating: From the Dungeon to WWE
Nattie Neidhart
Paper Book
INSTANT BESTSELLER WWE Superstar Natalya "Nattie" Neidhart--the longest-serving female wrestler in WWE history--invites readers inside her extraordinary journey, from her upbringing in the legendary Hart family home through her more than two decades in...
Don't Call It a Comeback: What Happened When I Stopped Chasing PRs, and Started Chasing Happiness
Keira D'Amato
Paper Book
"D'Amato populates the book with lessons learned from her own experiences--about being open to opportunities, celebrating small wins, embracing failure." --New York Times A victorious tale of coming back in middle age to topple marathon records, from the running...
Test Cricket: A History
Tim Wigmore
Paper Book
WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED 2025 THE CRICKET SOCIETY/MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED 2026'Wonderfully wide-focused, unfailingly readable and laced with passages of insightful analysis, Tim Wigmore's history of test...
Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball
Luke Epplin
Paper Book
The rousing story of two trailblazing superstars--Julius "Dr. J" Erving and Moses Malone--whose improbable alliance and unsung legacies shaped the wildest and most innovative era of basketball history.   In the early 1970s, playground courts across the United...
Surviving the Trail: Five Essential Skills to Prepare Every Hiker for Adventure's Most Common Perils
scanlondrrob
Paper Book
Equip yourself with the knowledge to avoid common hiking hazards and stay safe on the trail The statistics are difficult to believe, but every week more than ten hikers die and at least another two hundred require rescue in North America, amounting to more than 500 lives lost and...
The Open Era
Edward Schmit
Paper Book
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Heated Rivalry for the tennis set...charming, funny, and big-hearted."--Town & Country "[A] debut romance novel that will capture your heart."--Cosmopolitan Love evens the score between two tennis players in this...
Outspoken: A Journey from Olympic Athlete to Activist
Betty Baxter
An Olympian recounts her experiences as a young gay athlete and coach in the 70s and 80s, turning discrimination into celebration. When Betty Baxter was hired to coach the Canadian women's volleyball team in 1980, she was met with a media frenzy as the first woman in the position. Then her...
Formula 1 101: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About F1, Explained
Christian Hewgill
Paper Book
Discover everything you ever wanted to know about Formula 1 in this essential, fully illustrated explainer. Formula 1 is the most popular motorsport on the planet. But while the speed and spectacle of F1 can be enjoyed by anyone, it's a famously complex sport, combining cutting-edge...
Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling
Danny Funt
Paper Book
This jaw-dropping book pulls back the curtain on the alluring yet perilous world of American sports gambling. Built around explosive interviews with the power players of the betting boom at FanDuel, DraftKings, and beyond, it reveals the troubling methods that are being used to bleed...
The Broken King
Michael Thomas
Paper Book
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD "There's a bridge of beautiful American prose--lyrical, powerful, fearlessly candid--running straight from James Baldwin to Thomas, who is obviously...
Leeds United in the 1970s
Dave Tomlinson
Rarely has any club courted as much controversy, ill feeling and bad press as Leeds United in the 1970s. Manager Don Revie had transformed them from a struggling Second Division outfit at the beginning of the 1960s to being arguably the best team in Europe, but they were dogged by the 'Dirty Leeds'...

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