Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading a lot of deranged fiction lately (Bret Easton Ellis), and need to get the aggression out, or maybe it’s because I just really like boxing. Either way, I haven’t read a good sports book in awhile (about two months; read When March Went Mad during March Madness), and I’m interested in reading a great book about boxing. Looking for suggestions.

Here are eight I pulled off Amazon. Leave insights in the comments, fellow fans of pugilist lit.

The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales from the Ring, edited by Jeff Silverman


The Sweet Science, by A.J. Liebling


My View from the Corner: A Life in Boxing, by Angelo Dundee


Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, by Wil Haygood


The Professional, by W.C. Heinz


The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science, by Mike Silver


Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship, by Dave Kindred


Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing, by George Kimball