These are my picks for the best books I read in 2019. As you can see I am light of sport and heavy on history and biography.
Coaching Children in Sport – The Carver Framework by Paul Kilgannon
El Norte – The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson
The Passion Paradox by Brad Stulburg and Steve Magness
Working – Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert Caro
The Patch by John McPhee
Genesis -The Deep Origin of Society by Edward O. Wilson
Churchill – Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
Range – Why Generalists Triumph in A Specialized World by David Epstein
The Dreamant Land – Chasing Water & Dust Across California by Mark Arax
This Land – How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West by Christopher Ketchen
Fire & Fortitude – The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941 – 1943 by John C. McManus
The MVP Machine – How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players By Ben Linbergh and Travis Sawchik
Educate – Memoir by Kara Westover
George Marshall – Defender of the Republic by David L. Roll
The Night Fire – By Michael Connelly
Dreams of El Dorado – A History of the American West by H.W. Brands
My Life and Rugby – The Autobiography by Eddie Jones
Science and Application of High Intensity Interval Training – Solution to the Programing Puzzle By Paul Larsen and Martin Buchhiet