March Madness

🏀 Celebrate March Madness with these basketball books 🏀

Updated January 23, 2025
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The legends club : Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and the story of an epic college basketball rivalry
Feinstein, John.
Paper Book
The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends--University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano--by the king of college basketball writers, #1 New York Times bestseller John Feinstein...
Canyon dreams : a basketball season on the Navajo Nation
Powell, Michael
Paper Book
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.   Deep in the heart of northern Arizona,...
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Abdurraqib, Hanif 1983-
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A "powerful" (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home--from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America "Mesmerizing ....
When the game was ours
Bird, Larry 1956-
Paper Book
From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. These were the basketball epics of the 1980s -- Celtics vs Lakers,...
Play their hearts out : a coach, his star recruit, and the youth basketball machine
Dohrmann, George.
Paper Book
"Eight years of unfettered access, a keen sense of a story's deepest truths, and a genuine compassion for his subject allow Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the machine that produces America's basketball stars. oop dreams aren't just for players. The fever...
Sacred hoops : the spiritual lessons of a hardwood warrior
Jackson, Phil.
Ebook
One of the NBA's most successful coaches delivers "an earnest and refreshing answer to the dollar driven soullessness of modern professional sports" (People).With a new introduction by the author"Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to...

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