1. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins |  Rating: 4.5/5
Rank: 15 | People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance
Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to
recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for... more
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3. Every Second Counts
Lance Armstrong |  Rating: 3.5/5
Rank: 103 | In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts
(co-authored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: "Generally, one of the
hardest things in the world to do is something twice." While he is talking
here about... more
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4. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins |  Rating: 4.5/5
Rank: 155 | People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance
Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to
recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for... more
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5. No Mountain High Enough: Raising Lance, Raising Me
Linda Armstrong Kelly, Joni Rodgers |  Rating: 5.0/5
Rank: 446 | A memoir written by a famous athlete's mother may seem like a blatant
attempt to cash in on yet another aspect of the athlete's celebrity. Yet
Kelly, mother of six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, has
managed... more
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6. Every Second Counts
Lance Armstrong |  Rating: 3.5/5
Rank: 619 | In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts
(co-authored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: "Generally, one of the
hardest things in the world to do is something twice." While he is talking
here about... more
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7. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer |  Rating: 4.5/5
Rank: 611 | Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic
expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent
veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led
by celebrated... more
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9. Lance Armstrong: Images of a Champion
Lance Armstrong |  Rating: 3.5/5
Rank: 763 | Lance Armstrong has become the most admired athlete in the world. His
heroic survival from deadly cancer and his hard-fought triumphs in the
bicycle race that is thought to be the most grueling endurance test in
sports are... more
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10. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Jonathan Eig |  Rating: 5.0/5
Rank: 734 | Lou Gehrig started his professional baseball career at a time when players
began to be seen as national celebrities. Though this suited charismatic
men such as Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, Gehrig avoided the spotlight... more
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11. How I Play Golf
Tiger Woods |  Rating: 4.5/5
Rank: 1475 | No athlete has changed his sport the way Tiger Woods has transformed the
world of golf. The Tiger phenomenon has created a new legion of golfers,
seduced by Woods's almost effortless mastery of this most difficult game... more
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13. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Dean Karnazes |  Rating: 4.0/5
Rank: 2328 | Ultra-marathoner Dean Karnazes claims "There is magic in misery." While it
would be easy to write off his habit of running for 100 miles at a
time—or longer—as mere masochism, it's impossible to not admire... more
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16. The Death of WCW
R. D. Reynolds, Bryan Alvarez |  Rating: 4.0/5
Rank: 3961 | This detailed tell-all of the demise of the former top pro wrestling
company World Championship Wrestling explores the colorful personalities
and flawed business decisions behind how WCW went from being the
highest-rated... more
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17. Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
Michael Lewis |  Rating: 3.0/5
Rank: 4221 | Lewis (Liar's Poker; Moneyball) remembers his high school
baseball coach, Coach Fitz, a man so intense a room felt "more pressurized
simply because he was in it." At the New Orleans private school Lewis
attended in the late... more
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20. Favre
Brett Favre, Bonita Favre |  Rating: 5.0/5
Rank: 5043 | Just one day after losing his father, Irvin Favre, to a heart attack and
fatal car crash, Brett Favre took the field for a Monday Night
Football game against the notorious Oakland Raiders. Even with the
Green Bay Packers... more
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22. Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby |  Rating: 4.5/5
Rank: 5199 | In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly
funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain
he is revered for his status as a fanatical... more
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24. Every Second Counts (Random House Large Print)
Lance Armstrong |  Rating: 3.5/5
Rank: 5711 | In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts
(co-authored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: "Generally, one of the
hardest things in the world to do is something twice." While he is talking
here about... more
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25. Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?
Charles Barkley, Michael Wilbon |  Rating: 3.5/5
Rank: 5737 | "Racism," Charles Barkley says, "is the biggest cancer of my lifetime. And
I know I can't cure the cancer, but doesn't somebody have to attack it?"
Barkley's means of attack in Who's Afraid of a Large Black
Man?--not... more
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