This article originally appeared in the July 14th issue of our newsletter, The Raven. Subscribe HERE.

Those looking to fill the early weekend morning Premier League void, we give you Men in Blazers Summer Reading Guide, books perfect for the beach or a bar stool, divided into two categories and listed in no particular order. It's a mix of old and new.

Football Books:

• “A Season in the Red: Managing Man UTD in the Shadow of Sir Alex Ferguson” by Jamie Jackson
• “Touched by God: How We Won the '86 Mexico World Cup” by Diego Maradona and Daniel Arcucci
• “The Fall of the House of FIFA: The Multimillion-Dollar Corruption at the Heart of Global Soccer” by David Conn
• “Soccer under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust” by Kevin E. Simpson
• “Here We Go: Everton in the 1980s: The Players' Stories” by Simon Hart
• “Pep Guardiola: The Evolution” by Martí Perarnau

Non-Football Books 

• “The Force” by Don Winslow
• “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins” by Garry Kasparov
• "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
• “Fly Me” by Daniel Riley
• "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
• “The World to Come” by Jim Shepard [LISTEN TO OUR POD WITH JIM SHEPARD HERE]
• "Commonwealth: A Novel" by Ann Patchett