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 * #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 . . . not only the most original...
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,...
Bubbleball : inside the NBA's fight to save a season
Golliver, Ben
Paper Book
A captivating account of the NBA's strangest season ever, from shutdown to championship, from a prominent national basketball writer living inside the bubble When NBA player Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 in March 2020, the league shut down immediately, bringing a...
Betaball : how Silicon Valley and science built one of the greatest basketball teams in history
Malinowski, Erik
Paper Book
Moneyball meets The City Game in this compelling look at how the NBA champion Golden State Warriors embraced savvy business practices, next-gen science, and the corporate culture of Silicon Valley to not only produce one of the greatest basketball teams in history but also...

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