NHL - Hockey Books You Should Read

Updated June 16, 2026
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The game
Dryden, Ken
Paper Book
At times funny and melancholy, always insightful and revealing, The Game is full of vivid stories of one of hockey's greatest teams, and some of its greatest players. * A reflective and provocative look at a life in hockey and at the game itself. * A commemorative, 20th anniversary edition of this...
Dreamer : my life on the edge
Kadri, Nazem
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality. No one who...
Home and Away
Sundin, Mats.
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER In one of the last great remaining untold stories in all of sports, the Hall of Fame Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin shares for the first time an unfiltered look at playing hockey in Sweden and across North America as part of the sport's most...
Mind over matter : hard-won battles on the road to hope
Tootoo, Jordin
Paper Book
Following the bestselling success of the inspiring All the Way, pioneering Inuit NHLer Jordin Tootoo begins the process of healing in the wake of the suicide and violence that marks his family, only to discover the source of all that trauma in his father's secret past. For...
Most valuable : how Sidney Crosby became the best player in hockey's greatest era and changed the game forever
Joyce, Gare
Paper Book
#1 National Bestseller This hockey generation's brightest talent has been plagued by concussions. Now, the very style of play that has brought Crosby such success may be heralding the end of his career. Sidney Crosby is arguably the best player ever to put...
Cujo : the untold story of my life on and off the ice
Joseph, Curtis
Paper Book
The instant #1 national bestseller Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, was an unlikely NHL superstar. The boy from Keswick, Ontario, didn't put on a pair of skates until most kids his age were already far along in organized hockey, and he was passed...
The Down goes Brown history of the NHL : the world's most beautiful sport, the world's most ridiculous league
McIndoe, Sean
Paper Book
Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments--especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL. The NHL is, indisputably, weird. One moment,...
The last good year : seven games that ended an era
Cox, Damien
Paper Book
Nominated for the 2019 Toronto Heritage Book Award We may never see a playoff series like it again. Before Gary Bettman, and the lockouts. Before all the NHL's old barns were torn down to make way for bigger, glitzier rinks. Before expansion and parity across the...
Mr. Hockey : my story
Howe, Gordie
Paper Book
Ask Bobby Orr who was the best ever, and he'll tell you it was Gordie Howe. Ask Wayne Gretzky, and he'll say the same thing. Big, skilled, mean, and nearly indestructible, Howe dominated the game and the record books for decades. Today he is still known as "Mr. Hockey," and any bruising forward...
99 : stories of the game
Gretzky, Wayne
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER First he rewrote the record book. Now, to mark the NHL's ninety-ninth anniversary, Wayne Gretzky has written the story of our game. In 99: Stories of the Game, Gretzky looks back on the last ninety-nine years and tells us, from...
Hockey Moms: The Heart of the Game
Bailey, Theresa
Paper Book
A celebration of the unsung heroes behind the game, including first-hand stories from moms of the NHL's biggest stars Hockey Moms laces together the stories of NHL hockey moms like Kelly McDavid and Ema Matthews with those of mothers who never expected their children to set foot on the ice...
Killer : my life in hockey
Gilmour, Doug
Paper Book
The #1 Bestselling Canadian Non-Fiction Book of the Year They called him Killer. Doug Gilmour didn't look fearsome on a pair of skates--being an "undersized" forward would plague him during his early career--but few players matched his killer instincts in the faceoff circle or...
Hockey towns : untold stories from the heart of Canada
MacLean, Ron
Paper Book
Every Canadian town has a hockey story, and Ron MacLean has a hockey story for every town. A new book by the co-author of the national bestseller Cornered. When you first meet Ron MacLean, he asks where you're from, and he always comes back with a story. No one has crossed...
The class : a memoir of a place, a time, and us
Dryden, Ken
Paper Book
On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the 'Selected Class.' They would stay together through high school,...
Crossing the line : the outrageous story of a hockey original
Sanderson, Derek.
Paper Book
Derek Sanderson was a key player with the Big Bad Bruins in the 1970s. At one point the highest-paid athlete in the world, Sanderson played with and against the era's legends, winning two Stanley Cups and assisting on Bobby Orr's famous diving goal in 1970. Off the ice, "Turk" was one of a kind....

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