For your boxing library: As a boxing fan and an avid reader the boxing books listed below are my top 100 favorites (in alphabetical order). They include biographies, fiction, non-fiction, instructional, newly published and old boxing books that I have read and enjoyed. Keep in mind that I am not a book critic. I just love boxing and reading books on boxing.
- A Beautiful Sickness: Reflections on the Sweet Science
by Thomas Hauser - A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting
by Sam Sheridan - A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s
by Roger Kahn - A Neutral Corner: Boxing Essays
by A. J. Liebling, Fred Warner, James Barbour - A Savage Business: The Comeback and Comedown of Mike Tyson
by Richard Hoffer - A Year at the Fights
by Thomas Hauser - An Illustrated History of Boxing
by Nat Fleischer, Sam Andre, Nigel Collins, Dan Rafael - Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man
by Teddy Atlas, Peter Alson - Bad Intentions: The Mike Tyson Story
by Peter Niels Heller - Bare Fists: The History of Bare Knuckle Prize Fighting
by Bob Mee - Barney Ross
by Douglas Century - Bert Sugar's Boxing Encyclopedia: Everything You Want to Know, and More
by Bert Randolph Sugar - Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
by David Margolick - Blood Game
by Ed Gorman - Blood in My Coffee: The Life of the Fight Doctor
by Ferdie Pacheco - Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer
by Loic Wacquant - Boxer's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Boxing
by Doug Werner - Boxiana; or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, from the Days of the Renowned Broughton and Slack, to the Championship of Cribb: Volume 1
by Pierce Egan - Boxing
by Bertram Job - Boxing and Society: An International Analysis
by John Sugden - Boxing Babylon
by Nigel Collins - Boxing's Best Short Stories
by Paul D. Staudohar - Boxing Confidential: Power, Corruption and the Richest Prize in Sport
by Jim Brady - Boxing's Dirty Tricks and Outlaw Killer Punches
by Champ Thomas - Boxing's Greatest Fighters
by Bert Randolph Sugar - Boxing: Heroes & Champions
by Bob Mee - Boxing Interviews of a Lifetime
by "Bad" Brad Berkwitt - Boxing Mastery: Advanced Technique, Tactics, and Strategies from the Sweet Science
by Mark Hatmaker, Doug Werner - Boxing: Photographs by Larry Fink
by Burt Randolph Sugar - Boxing Stories (The Works of Robert E. Howard)
by Robert E. Howard - Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter
by Ron Ross - Championship Streetfighting: Boxing As A Martial Art
by Ned Beaumont - Cinderella Man
by Michael DeLisa - Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History
by Jeremy Schaap - Corner Men: Great Boxing Trainers
by Ronald K. Fried - Cut Time: An Education at the Fights
by Carlo Rotella - Facing Ali: 15 Fighters / 15 Stories
by Stephen Brunt - Fat City
by Leonard Gardner - Fighting Fit
by Doug Werner and Alan Lachica - Fight Town: Las Vegas - the Boxing Capital of the World
by Tim Dahlberg - Fighting Ruben Wolfe
by Markus Zusak - Hands of Stone: The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran
by Christian Giudice - How to Be an Ass-Whipping Boxer
by Champ Thomas - Inside the Ropes
by Arthur Mercante and Phil Guarnieri - In the Corner: Great Boxing Trainers Talk About Their Art
by Dave Anderson - In This Corner...!: Forty-Two World Champions Tell Their Stories
by Peter Heller - Iron Mike: A Mike Tyson Reader
by Daniel O'Connor - Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler
by Randy Roberts - Joe Louis: The Great Black Hope
by Richard Bak - John L. Sullivan and His America
by Michael T. Isenberg - King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
by David Remnick - Lennox
by Lennox Lewis - Let's Get It On: Tough Talk from Boxing's Top Ref and Nevada's Most Outspoken Judge
by Mills Lane - Mike Tyson: Money, Myth and Betrayal
by Montieth M. Illingworth - Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner (aka Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner)
by F. X. Toole - Mi Vida Loca: The Crazy Life of Johnny Tapia
by Johnny Tapia and Bettina Gilois - Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
by Thomas Hauser - Murder on the Ropes: Original Boxing Mysteries
by Otto Penzler - On Boxing
by Joyce Carol Oates - Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King
by Jack Newfield - Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson
by Herb Boyd, Ray Robinson - Pound for Pound: A Novel
by F. X. Toole - Raging Bull: My Story
by Jake La Motta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage - Reading the Fights: The Best Writing About the Most Controversial of Sports
by Joyce Carol Oates and Daniel Halpern - Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times
by Russell Sullivan - Serenity: A Boxing Memoir
by Ralph Wiley - Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice & the Will to Survive in American Boxing Gyms
by Jim Lommasson, Joe Frazier, Bert Sugar, John Gattuso - Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
by Dave Kindred - Standing Eight: The Inspiring Story of Jesus "El Matador" Chavez, Who Became Lightweight Champion Of The World
by Adam Pitluk - Sugar Ray: The Sugar Ray Robinson Story
by Sugar Ray Robinson and Dave Anderson - Tent Boxing
by Wayne McLennan - The Ageless Warrior: The Life of Boxing Legend Archie Moore
by Jake Lamotta and Mike Fitzgerald - The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing
by Thomas Hauser - The Book of Boxing
by W. C. Heinz, Nathan Ward - The Boxer's Heart: How I Fell in Love with the Ring
by Kate Sekules - The Boxer's Workout
by Peter Depasquale - The Boxing Register: International Boxing Hall of Fame Official Record Book
by James Roberts and Alexander Skutt - The Fight
by Norman Mailer - The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle
by Robert Anasi - The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales from the Ring
by Jeff Silverman - The Guv'nor
by Lenny McLean - The Harder They Fall
by Budd Schulberg - The Hardest Game: McIlvanney on Boxing
by Hugh McIlvanney - The Holyfield Way: What I Learned about Courage, Perseverance, and the Bizarre World of Boxing
by James J Thomas - The Killings of Stanley Ketchel
by James Carlos Blake - The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America
by Elliott J. Gorn - The Prince and the Prophet: The Rise of Naseem Hamed
by Nick Pitt - The Professional
by W. C. Heinz - The Science of Boxing: Rules and Articles on Training: Generalship in the Ring and Kindred Subjects
by Mike Donovan - The Speed Bag Bible
by Alan H. Kahn - The Sweet Science
by Robert Anasi and A.J. Liebling - The Tomato Can
by Ron Ross - The View From Ringside: Inside the Tumultuous World of Boxing
by Thomas Hauser - This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own: A Journey to the End of Boxing
by Jonathan Rendall - Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey
by Jack Cavanaugh - Undefeated: Rocky Marciano -- the Fighter who Refused to Lose
by Everett M. Skehan, Peter Louis, Mary Anne Marciano and Stanley Bauman - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
by Geoffrey C. Ward - Unlicensed: Random Notes from Boxing's Underbelly
by Jon Hotten - Victory Over Myself
by Floyd Patterson and Milton Gross - White Collar Boxing: One Man's Journey from the Office to the Ring
by John E. Oden - Workouts from Boxing's Greatest Champs: Get in Shape with Muhammad Ali, Fernando Vargas, Roy Jones Jr., and Other Legends
by Gary Todd
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