Read: 10
BOTM: M. Bowden, The Best Game ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
M. Bradbury, The History Man
M. Bulgakov, Master and Margarita*
J. le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy
G. Dexter, Why not Catch 21?
C. Dickens, Bleak House
A. Huxley, Crome Yellow
J. Morris, Hong Kong
D.L. Sayers, The Nine tailors
P.G. Wodehouse, Carry on, Jeeves
This month's BOTM is not the best book on the list. I'm not sure it's even second. There are at least three classics on this list (four if you include Dickens, but I've never gotten on with him and this was no exception). Bowden's account of breakthrough game of American football, that launched the sport onto the American public is neither as well written nor as famous. But it's the book I enjoyed the most. Partly because it was different, but it was also fascinating, both about American Football and especially about how it emerged from relative obscurity to become massive. And it was a great story.
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