On the first day of Christmas, we have… Sports related books. Sports books are actually one of the biggest selling categories in books and there’s a lot of choice out there. There are some books that have hit the headlines this year, such as cricketer Kevin Pietersen
or Roy Keane
or Brian Moore’s
tales from rugby tours. As these three books illustrate, a lot of sports books are biographies of sorts, but there’s a lot more to sport than people just looking back on their sport’s career.There is a fair bit of sports fiction, some where the sport is the main focus of the book and others where it is a background theme running through it. You could try, the cricket- Netherland
(although be warned that it is not a book about cream teams and the English countryside…) or the baseball themed book The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
or Don Delillo's End Zone
, which is based around American Football.There are also a lot of women in sport, who perhaps get a bit overlooked in the sports category, such as Katherine Grainger’s autobiography
or Nicole Cooke's book
about her journey to Olympic Gold, or how about Jessica Ennis
.For the child in you or your family, there are also the ever traditional annuals, such as the Match Annual 2015
, Match of the Day Annual 2015
or a football team's annual
(other football team annuals are available, I hasten to add!).Finally, you could try the beautifully written What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
, this book is about his experience of running, but he also writes really good (not sport related) fiction.Here are links to all of the books above, along with some other suggestions:
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