16 Sports (Non-Fiction)books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina  by Misty Copeland
• Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization through Physical Activity by Tricia McGuire-Adams
• Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City by Perry King
• A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio
• Basketball (and Other Things): a Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano
• Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-hop, and Street Basketball by Onaje X. O. Woodbine
• Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden
• In My Skin: My Life on and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner
• Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring
• A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History by Seth Berkman 
• Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story by Wyomia Tyus, Elizabeth Terzakis
• Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America by Jason Reid
• Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford
• My Olympic Life by Anita L. DeFrantz and Josh Young
• Back in the Frame: How to get back on your bike, whatever life throws at you by Jools Walker 
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover