We Asked For Your Book Recommendations - Here They Are | Balls.ie

In an unprecedented time during which many will spend hours in front of the TV streaming shows and movies, the option to pick up a book and read should not be disregarded.

On Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, we asked our audience if they could recommend just one book for people to read during the Covid-19 emergency, what would it be?

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We've collated their replies below. Hopefully, you'll find something new and worthwhile.

Sports

My Father and Other Working Class Heroes by Gary Imlach.
Hanging From The Rafters by Kieran Shannon
Form by Kieran Fallon
Open by Andre Agassi
The Bloodied Field by Michael Foley
I Think Therefore I Play by Andrea Pirlo
The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro by Joe McGinnis
The Lost Soul of Eamonn McGee by Paul D Gibson
A Strange Kind of Glory by Eamon Dunphy
Boy Wonder - Dave Hannigan,
I Believe in Miracles - Daniel Taylor
The Grudge - Tom English,
The Double - Adrian Russell
How To Skateboard And Not Kill Yourself by Rodney Mullen.
The Undisputed Truth - Mike Tyson
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Forever Young by Oliver Kay
Recovering by Richie Sadlier
The Boy on the Shed by Paul Ferris
'Over The Bar' by Breandán ó hEithir
Back From The Brink by Paul McGrath
Rough Ride - Paul Kimmage
Days Of Heaven by Declan Lynch
Four Kings by George Kimble
The Choice by Philly McMahon
The Fight by Norman Mailer
From Dun Sion to Croke Park - Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh
Fighter by Andy Lee
The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final by Richard Moore
Centaur by Declan Murphy
Massively Violent and Decidedly Average by Lee Howey

Non-fiction

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
The Grass Arena by John Healy
Papillon by Henri Charrière
Mr Nice by Howards Marks
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor by Michael Smith
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
Sapiens by Noah Yuval
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Me by Elton John
Red Notice by Bill Browder
War Junkie by Jon Steele
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War by Adam Makos
The Collected Letters of John B. Keane
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor by JE Gordon
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets by David Simon
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
Tony 10 by Declan Lynch
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Directorate S by Steve Coll
McCarthy's Bar by Pete Mc Carthy