Books Featuring American Football

A collection of books focused on or featuring the sport of American football.

American Football Books By Name

A
A Fan's Notes (1968)
A Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football (1970)
A Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football (1984)
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load (1974)
About Three Bricks Shy... and the Load Filled Up (1989)
America's Game, The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation (2004 or 2005)

?
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012)

C
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football (2013)

F
Finding the Winning Edge (1997)
Football (2014)
Football Nation: 400 Years of America's Game (2013)
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990)

H
Harry Gerard Bissinger III / aka Buzz Bissinger / aka H. G. Bissinger

I
Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer (1968)

M
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football (2013)

N
North Dallas Forty (1973)

P
Paper Lion (1966)

S
Semi-Tough: A Novel (1972)

T
The Blind Side (2006)
The Education of a Coach (2005)
The First 50 Years (1969)
The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless 1970s (2015)
The League (1986)
The League (2018)
The Pro Football Chronicle (1990)

W
War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team (2012)
When Pride Still Mattered (1999)

2010s

The League (2018)
John Eisenberg
https://pigskinbooks.com/2018/10/09/the-league-john-eisenberg/
https://pigskinbooks.com/2018/10/04/interview-john-eisenberg/

The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless 1970s (2015)
Kevin Cook
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16241191-the-last-headbangers

Football (2014)
John Schulian, Editor

Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football (2013)
Nicholas Dawidoff
https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/what-im-reading-collision-low-crossers-nicholas-dawidoff/

Football Nation: 400 Years of America's Game (2013)
Susan Reyburn
https://pigskinbooks.com/2019/02/03/top-five-nfl-history-books/

Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football (2013)
Rich Cohen

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012)
Ben Fountain

War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team (2012)
Michael Holley

2000s

The Blind Side (2006)
Michael Lewis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/817791.The_Blind_Side

America's Game, The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation (2004 or 2005)
Michael MacCambridge
https://pigskinbooks.com/2018/07/30/americas-game-michael-maccambridge/

The Education of a Coach (2005)
David Halberstam

1990s

When Pride Still Mattered (1999)
David Marannis

Finding the Winning Edge (1997)
Bill Walsh

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990)
Harry Gerard Bissinger III / aka Buzz Bissinger / aka H. G. Bissinger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights:_A_Town,_a_Team,_and_a_Dream

The Pro Football Chronicle (1990)
Dan Daly and Bob O’Donnell
https://pigskinbooks.com/2018/08/06/the-pro-football-chronicle-dan-daly-bob-odonnell/
https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Football-Chronicle-Complete-Greatest/dp/0020283008

1980s

About Three Bricks Shy... and the Load Filled Up (1989)
Roy Blount, Junior
https://www.amazon.com/About-Three-Bricks-Load-Filled/dp/0345364414/

The League (1986)
David Harris

A Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football (1984) Paul Zimmerman

1970s

About Three Bricks Shy of a Load (1974)
Roy Blount, Junior
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822958345/
https://www.amazon.com/About-Three-Bricks-Shy-Load/dp/0316100064/

North Dallas Forty (1973)
Peter Gent

Semi-Tough: A Novel (1972)
Dan Jenkins
https://www.amazon.com/Semi-Tough-Novel-Dan-JENKINS-ebook/dp/B00V3WCCQO/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title

A Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football (1970) Paul Zimmerman

1960s

The First 50 Years (1969)
NFL Properties

A Fan's Notes (1968)
Frederick Exley

Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer (1968)
Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Replay_(book)

Paper Lion (1966)
George Plimpton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Lion

References

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