It sounds like you are limiting the conversation to fiction. If that's true?

Paul Studahar's collection of "Best Boxing Stories" has some extraordinary writing by ATG writers. The best is the Chickesa Bone Crusher.

Fat City is incredible in terms of both the book and its influence.

Rope Burns was very good.

The Killings of Stanley Ketchell was very good. There's a great scene of Ketchell and Jack Johnson in a brothel after their fight.

In the Best of Joe R. Lansdale there is a story called The Big Blow. Jack Johnson and a great white fighter named McBride fight in Galveston as the Great Hurricane of 1900 wipes out the city.


If you're talking books about boxing as opposed to fictional stuff?

Boxiana by Pierce Egan, The Sweet Science and the Neutral Corner by AJ Liebling, The Hardest Game by Hugh Mcillvaney, Beyond Glory by David Margolick, Facing Ali by Stephen Brunt, This Bloody Mary by Jon Rendell, Dark Trade by Doug McRae, Jeff Silverman's The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told, Clay Moyle's biography of Sam Langford, Christian Guidice's of Roberto Duran, Dave Anderson's of SDurgar Ray, Mark Kramm's Ghosts of Manila and anything by Joyce Carol Oates are absolute must reads.

There are dozens of others.

The How to Books by men like Barney Ross and Jimmy Wilde and Dempsey and Gibbons and others are endlessly informative.