Your Favorite Pool/Billiards Literature

Here is a review of Thomas Fensch's "The Lions and the Lambs" that I found in a copy I was looking through.

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Bob Jewett said:
(List last updated 28 July 2016)

If you're tired of books on instruction but crave something billiard-related, you might want to check out the following.
-- Bob

Byrne, "Great Pool Stories"
Walter Tevis, "The Hustler" and "Color of Money"
Dyer, "Hustler Days"
Dyer, "The Hustler and the Champ"
Byrne, "McGoorty"
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"
Stowers, "The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson"
Fels, "Legends of Pool"
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"
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"
Jay Helfert, "Pool Wars"
Freddy Bentivegna, "The GosPool of Bank Pool" and "The Encyclopedia of Pool Hustlers"
L. Jon Werthiem, "Running The Table"
Danny Diliberto/Jerry Forsyth, "The Road Player"
Alf Taylor, "The Other Side of the Road"
Ronnie O'Sullivan, "Running"
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Hi Bob. I was sorry to see my books "Do It For The Game" and "Just Do It For The Money" dropped off your list. DIFTG was on there for a time. I have a few of those left. I sold out of JDIFTM. They are both available for Kindle.

Bob Campbell
 
doitforthegame said:
Hi Bob. I was sorry to see my books "Do It For The Game" and "Just Do It For The Money" dropped off your list. DIFTG was on there for a time. I have a few of those left. I sold out of JDIFTM. They are both available for Kindle.

Bob Campbell
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Sorry, Bob. They must have been in a later list. I have added them in.
 
Someone was asking about good pool story books, so here is this thread again.
 
I have updated the list in post #13 to try to include all the "pool story" kind of books. If I've missed any, please let me know.
 
I recommend banking with the beard. Its got great info on banking and has a number of good pool stories.
 
I'd like to put in a plug for "Fast Company". You can get a copy for under $10 delivered. It covers six high-stakes gamblers. Here is a brief part of a review:

Poker players Johnny Moss, Pug Pearson, and Titanic Thompson; tennis player Bobby Riggs; pool player Minnesota Fats; and backgammon player Tim Holland have come away with their pockets filled and their sense of infallibility intact. ,,,​
 
Great lists!

What books are currently available as digital audio books?

Hustler - W. Tevis
TCOM - W. Tevis
Running the Table - L. Jon Wertheim

Etc....
 
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