Books for your reading/wish/gift list

Whether you’re shopping for your favorite volleyball coach, or looking for your own next read, here are some recommendations.

Of course, I can’t help but start with my own books. 😀

There’s The Perfect Drill, which is a quick read aimed at helping you come up with great drills and games for your practices. It’s aimed at less experienced coaches, but I’ve had great feedback from well-experienced ones too.

And for those interested in college recruiting, there’s The College Volleyball Recruiting Playbook. It’s a resource intended mainly for players and parents, but has loads of useful information for coaches as well.

Then there’s the Volleyball Coaching Wizards series. These are books I developed with Mark Lebedew and Lauren Bertolacci based on interviews we did with a bunch of great coaches from all around the world and at a variety of levels.

Of course there are the books I recommended on this blog. Here are some of the best, vaguely grouped by broad topic.

This isn’t every book I’ve reviewed, of course. If you’d like to flip through that list – which includes books I don’t recommend, or am more iffy about – you can scroll through them all here.

If that’s not enough, during the interviews we did for Volleyball Coaching Wizards we always asked for reading recommendations. Here’s the full list of books mentioned.

Got any books you’d recommend? Leave them in the comments below.

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John Forman

John is currently the Indoor Performance Director for Volleyball England, overseeing all national teams. His 20+ years of volleyball coaching experience includes all three NCAA divisions, plus Junior College, in the US; university and club teams in the UK; professional coaching in Sweden; and both coaching and club management at the Juniors level. He's also been a visiting coach at national team, professional club, and juniors programs in several countries.

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