2018 Mid-Major Madness Summer Reading List

Well friends, we had one heck of a year. We laughed, we cried, we ended some damn lives.

But now it’s the summer (kind of), and with that comes the annual three-month-long homework assignment that you totally didn’t leave until the night before the first day of school every year.

Yes, it’s time for Summer Reading.

We’re not asking for an essay or a formal report of any kind. No, we just want to make sure your brain doesn’t rot completely before Midnight Madness. So here are a few basketball-related books to check out, as recommended by our staff and the good people of Twitter dot com. They range from the classics, like A Season on the Brink, to some fun books that our friends wrote. If there are any others you recommend, please leave them in the comments below.

Mid-Major Madness Summer Reading List:

(Books listed alphabetically by author because I said so)

Not A Game, Kent Babb
Bracketology: Science Behind the NCAA Tournament Selection Process, Eli Boettger
Play their Hearts Out, George Dohrmann
A Season on the Brink, John Feinstein
The Last Shot, John Feinstein
The Legends Club, John Feinstein
Sir Charles Barkley and the Referee Murders (comic book), Alan Dean Foster
Playing for Keeps, David Halberstam
Eleven Rings, Phil Jackson
For the Love of the Game, Michael Jordan
Pistol, Mark Kriegel
Dream Team, Jack McCallum
Madness: The 10 Most Memorable College Basketball Finals, Mark Mehler and Charles Paikert
Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the ABA, Terry Pluto
Living Out Loud, Craig Sager
Basketball and Other Things, Shea Serrano
The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons
Runnin’ Rebel: Shark Tales of “Extra Benefits,” Frank Sinatra, and Winning It All, Jerry Tarkanian
Heaven is a Playground, Rick Telander
Don’t Put Me In Coach, Mark Titus
Snubbed, Brian Toolan
Duke Sucks, Reed Tucker and Andy Bagwell
If my name was Phil Jackson... Would you read this?, Rick Turner
Transition Game: How the Hoosiers Went Hip Hop, L. Jon Wertheim
Bally’s Dream, Kyle Whelliston
The Last Great Game, Gene Wojciechowski
The Miracle of St. Anthony, Adrian Wojnarowski
Big Game, Small World, Alexander Wolff
They Call Me Coach, John Wooden
Attitude, Jay Wright