Books on Pool / Billiards what is your favorite

[1hit1der]

I tend to turn to The Science of Pocket Billiards by Jack Koehler and Banking with the Beard by Freddy Bentivegna. They've given me some useful tools for my banks and kicks. Also, I had checked out Win at Pocket Billiards by Desmond Allen from my library. He covers a lot of bank/kick systems as well of which I've started to incorporate a couple in my game.

I recently read Running the Table, which is a good tale of a road player. Freddy's got some good tales in his books too.

 

[Bob Jewett]

... What are some of your favorites that you have been fortunate enough to read??? And would recommend to anyone that just loves the game?

From a previous post... My favorites include McGoorty, Lindrum, Gospool, Grissim, Stowers, Stein and Rubino, and Shamos for various reasons.
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If you're tired of instruction, but crave something pool related,
you might want to check out the following. The biographical
and/or historical stuff is not entirely fiction, but I think much
of it qualifies. -- Bob

Stowers, "The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson"
Byrne, "Great Pool Stories"
Walter Tevis, "The Hustler" and "Color of Money"
Dyer, "Hustler Days"
Byrne, "McGoorty"
Bentivegna, "Banking with the Beard"
Tom Fox and Fats, "The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies"
McCumber, "Playing Off the Rail"
Grady, "Bet High, Kiss Low"
Mosconi and Cohen, "Willie's Game"
Grissim, "Billiards"
Fels, "Legends of Pool"
Freddy the Beard's "The Gospool."
Ricketts, "Walter Lindrum - Billiards Phenomenon"
Hoppe, "Thirty Years of Billiards"
"Brunswick: The Story of an American Company"
WW Woody, "Buddy Hall, Rags to Rifleman"
Thomas Fensch, "The Lions and the Lambs"
Joe Davis, "The Breaks Came My Way," autobiography
Ned Polsky, "Hustlers, Beats and Others"
Clive Everton, "The History of Snooker and Billiards"
Gordon Burn, "Pocket Money, Bad boys, business heads and boom time snooker"
Art Tully, "How to Hustle Your Friends at Pool"
Bob Campbell, "Do It for the Game"
Gerald E. Huber, "Green Felt Jungle"
Bob Henning, "Cornbread Red: Pool's Greatest Money Player"
Alex Higgins, "Alex, Through the Looking Glass"
Jon Bradshaw, "Fast Company"
Chris Rhys, "Snooker Disasters and Bizarre Records"
Mike Shamos, "The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards"
also: "Pool" and "Shooting Pool"
Stein and Rubino, "Billiard Encyclopedia"
Fred Walther, "Minnesota Fats, Never Behind the Eight Ball"
William Hendricks, "History of Billiards"
Peter Linhard, "How to Get By without Working"
Danny Diliberto, "You Bet Your Life"