CUSTOMERS' PICKS

1. "Three Nights in August" by Buzz Bissinger (Houghton Mifflin, 256 pages hardcover -- April 5, 2005)
2. "Juiced : Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big" by Jose Canseco (Regan Books
304 pages hardcover -- February 14, 2005)
3. "Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France" by Daniel Coyle (HarperCollins, 336 pages hardcover -- June 14, 2005)
4. "The Plane Truth for Golfers" by Jim Hardy and John Andrisani (McGraw-Hill, 176 pages paperback -- first edition, March 3, 2005)
5. "Now I Can Die in Peace : How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox" by Bill Simmons (ESPN Books, 368 pages hardcover -- October 1, 2005)
6. "Baseball Prospectus 2005 : Statistics, Analysis, and Insight for the Information Age (Baseball Prospectus)" by Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts (Workman Publishing Company, 576 pages paperback -- February 21, 2005)
7. "Luckiest Man : The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig" by Jonathan Eig (Simon & amp; Schuster, 432 pages hardcover -- March 29, 2005)
8. "Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner" by Dean Karnazes (Tarcher 288 pages hardcover -- March 17, 2005)
9. "The Boys of Winter : The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team"
by Wayne Coffey with foreward by Jim Craig (Crown 288 pages hardcover -- January 11, 2005)
10. "Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR" by Jeff MacGregor (HarperCollins, 384 pages hardcover -- April 26, 2005)
1. "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City" by Jonathan Mahler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 368 pages hardcover -- March 24, 2005)
2. "The Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball" by John Taylor (Random House, 432 pages hardcover -- October 11, 2005)
3. "Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR" by Jeff MacGregor (HarperCollins, 384 pages hardcover -- April 26, 2005)
4. "Wilt, 1962 : The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era" by Gary M. Pomerantz (Crown, 288 pages hardcover -- April 26, 2005)
5. "Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner" by Dean Karnazes (Tarcher 288 pages hardcover -- March 17, 2005)
6. "The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty" by Adrian Wojnarowski (Gotham, 400 pages hardcover, February 21, 2005)
7. "Inside the Cage : A Season at West 4th Street's Legendary Tournament" by Wight Martindale Jr. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 288 pages hardcover -- May 31, 2005)
8. "Wrecking Crew : The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates" by John Albert (Scribner, 288 pages hardcover -- August 9, 2005)
9. "Smithsonian Baseball : Inside the World's Finest Private Collections" by Stephen Wong (Collins, 296 pages hardover -- September 27, 2005)
10. "Luckiest Man : The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig" by Jonathan Eig (Simon & amp; Schuster, 432 pages hardcover -- March 29, 2005)
Source: Amazon.com, Dec. 29, 2005