Sports Fiction Genre – What’s the best definition for sports genre? Books in the sports fiction genre are made up of stories where a sport has an impact on the plot or main character. The story could be about a coach who struggles with life and finds peace and comfort when he’s with the team and the game. Or, the story could be about a teen that lives in poverty and their skill at a certain sport helps them rise above their struggles with life or keeps them away from drugs. In the Sports Genre, the “sport” is the main theme and has to do something special for or be something significant to the characters.
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Sports Fiction Genre – Examples
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1. Ball Four by Jim Bouton
2. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
3. Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump
4. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
5. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
6. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
7. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
8. It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
9. Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball by George F. Will
10. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
11. October 1964 by David Halberstam
12. Open by Andre Agassi
13. Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton
14. Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam
15. Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life by Tony Dungy
16. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
17. Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers by John Feinstein
18. Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins
19. Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
20. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
21. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
22. The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy by Bill Simmons
23. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
24. The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam
25. Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger
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