Olympics and sports book recommendations for your summer reading list

Do the Olympics have you wanting to read more about sports? Here & Now‘s Scott Tong gets book recommendations from Traci Thomas of “The Stacks” podcast.

Book recommendations from Traci Thomas

Nonfiction

• “Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports” by Dave Zirin
• “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand
• “Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose and the Last Glory Days of Baseball” by Keith O’Brien
• “The Sixth Man: A Memoir” by Andre Iguodala
• “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” by Hanif Abdurraqib
• “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis
• “Coming Home” by Britney Griner with Michelle Burford
• “Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters” by Joan Ryan
• “Among the Thugs” by Bill Buford
• “One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation ‘Wrath of God’” by Simon Reeve
• “We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality” by Louis Moore
• “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” by Michael Waters
• “Land of Second Chances: The Impossible Rise of Rwanda’s Cycling Team” by Tim Lewis
• “The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team and How It Changed the World” by Jere Longman
• “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen” by Christopher McDougall
• “Victory, Stand: Raising My Fist for Justice” by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile

Fiction

This segment aired on August 8, 2024.