2019 best books – Vern’s picks

These are my picks for the best books I read in 2019. As you can see I am light of sport and heavy on history and biography.

• Coaching Children in Sport: The Carver Framework by Paul Kilgannon
• El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson
• The Passion Paradox by Brad Stulburg and Steve Magness
• Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert Caro
• The Patch by John McPhee
• Genesis: The Deep Origin of Society by Edward O. Wilson
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in A Specialized World by David Epstein
• The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water & Dust Across California by Mark Arax
• This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West by Christopher Ketchen
• Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941–1943 by John C. McManus
• The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Ben Linbergh and Travis Sawchik
• Educate: A Memoir by Kara Westover
• George Marshall: Defender of the Republic by David L. Roll
• The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
• Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H.W. Brands
• My Life and Rugby: The Autobiography by Eddie Jones
• Science and Application of High Intensity Interval Training: Solution to the Programing Puzzle by Paul Larsen and Martin Buchhiet