Books like The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
12 books with a reading profile close to The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy by Bill Simmons. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Also outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
Tucker Case, a disgraced pilot who crashed a pink jet into the Vatican, finds himself flying for a questionable missionary organization in Micronesia.
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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by Tom Wright
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, data driven
Journalists Tom Wright and Bradley Hope document the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, centered on Jho Low, a financier who siphoned billions from a sovereign wealth fund.
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3
Rising Sun
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
During a gala opening for the Nakamoto Corporation’s new Los Angeles headquarters, a beautiful woman is found dead on a boardroom table.
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300
by Frank Miller
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
In 480 B.C., King Leonidas leads three hundred Spartan warriors to the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae to block the invading Persian army commanded by the self-proclaimed god-king Xerxes.
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Gray Mountain
by John Grisham
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Following the 2008 financial collapse, Samantha Kofer loses her high-stakes career at a major Manhattan law firm.
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The Day of the Jackal
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Set in 1963, the plot follows a secret French paramilitary group, the OAS, as they hire a professional British assassin known only by the codename Jackal.
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Best Served Cold
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Monza Murcatto, a feared mercenary general known as the Snake of Talins, is betrayed and thrown from a mountain by her employer, Grand Duke Orso.
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Wolverine: Old Man Logan
by Mark Millar
entertainment, narrative
In a dystopian future, the United States has been carved into territories ruled by supervillains like the Abomination, Magneto, and the Red Skull.
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Steel and snow
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Published as the first half of the third volume in the series, Steel and Snow follows the escalating civil war across Westeros after the Battle of the Blackwater.
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10
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by Tom Clancy
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
The plot begins when Soviet agents sabotage a major Siberian oil refinery, creating a fuel crisis that threatens the USSR’s economic survival.
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Bill Buford
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Bill Buford leaves his editorial position at The New Yorker to document the intense physical reality of professional cooking.
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A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
In 1767, Mack McAsh is a young coal miner in a Scottish mining community where workers are legally bound to their employer for life.
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