Football season is underway! For many of us, football is an intrinsically social activity. Whether we’re watching the game at home with family or friends and eating barbeque or grilling burgers – or – we’re sitting in the stands, hearing the marching band and cheering on our favorite team, surrounded by like-minded fans, football season is a special time of year. If you’re a football fan or, like me, just enjoy great sports fiction or nonfiction, you might check out one of these. What football picks do you recommend?
Football Picks
- Reality Check [2] by Peter Abrahams
- Leverage [3] by Joshua Cohen
- Crackback [4] by John Coy
- Deadline [5] by Chris Crutcher
- Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Rules Texas Football [6] by Jim Dent (Adult Nonfiction for YA)
- Payback Time [7] by Carl Deuker
- The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game [8] by John Feinstein
- Stupid Fast [9] by Geoff Herbach
- The Real All Americans: The Team That Changes a Game, a People, a Nation [10] by Sally Jenkins (Adult Nonfiction for YA)
- Carry the Rock: Race, Football and the Soul of an American City [11] by Jay Jennings (Adult Nonfiction for YA)
- Catching Jordan [12] by Miranda Kenneally
- Shut Out [13] by Kody Keplinger
- Pop [14] by Gordon Korman
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game [15] by Michael Lewis (Adult Nonfiction for YA)
- Raiders Night [16] by Robert Lipsyte
- Shooting Star [17] by Frederick McKissack, Jr.
- Dairy Queen [18] by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
- Troy High [19] by Shana Norris
- Home Field: Texas High School Football Stadiums from Alice to Zephyr [20] by Jeff Wilson, Buzz Bissinger and Bobby Hawthorne (Adult Nonfiction for YA)
- Food, Girls and Other Things I Can’t Have [21] by Allen Zadoff
Flickr CC [22]: Football in Grass [23] Photo by: Jayel Aheram [24]
- Teens [25]
