The Best Pool, Billiards & Snooker Books 2025

1. Motiv Venom Cobra Black/Bronze Pearl 15

Motiv Venom Cobra Black/Bronze Pearl 15

Motiv Venom Cobra Black/Bronze Pearl 15

2. The Pocket Book of Pocket Billiards : The Rack, The Rules—And A Working Pool Table (Board book)

From the bestselling author of "The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf" comes an original gift: a complete miniature, working pool table, plus balls, rack, cue, and bridge, packaged with a 48-page full-color book that explains how to play more than 30 games.

At last, a real working pool table for guys without a basement or a spare $2,000. From the bestselling author of The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf, comes an original gift: a complete miniature, working pool table, plus balls, rack, cue, and bridge, packaged with a 48-page full-color book that explains how to play more than 30 games. The snap of the cue, the crack of the balls, the satisfying thwack of sinking your shot: It’s all the fun of pool, on a table that you can play anywhere, anytime. The diminutive, stable table is covered in a feltlike material, and even has an automatic return that collects the balls in a drawer below. The cue never needs chalking, and the whimsical bridge helps with those hard-to-reach shots. The book gives complete, easy-to-follow rules to a variety of games: classics like Eight Ball and Nine Ball, of course, and 141 Continuous—the legendary game of straight pool played by Fast Eddie and Minnesota Fats in The Hustler, and every other skilled pocket billiards player—but also unusual games (Six Stroke, Convergence, Seven Ball, Bowlliards), and games the inventive author made up or adapted to play on the pool table—Hockey, Tag, even Sharks & Minnows.

3. Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - The definitive work on pool and billiards (National Billiard News) by champion player Robert Byrne Now updated throughout and expanded with new material on strategy in eight- and nine-ball, trick shots, and billiard memorabilia, Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards is the classic guide to cue games complete with detailed diagrams and photographs to help improve play at every level.

Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

4. Playing Off the Rail [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler," student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle.

Playing Off the Rail, Used [Paperback]

5. Precision Pool [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Until now, truly useful tips to play better pool were passed along by word of mouth from mentor to apprentice. Most instructional books covered the same old stuff: rules of the game, basic shot techniques, and the geometry of ball movement. >Precision Pool> takes the next step toteach you more about billiards than you've ever had a chance to learn from any other book.From essential fundamentals to advanced game strategies, this book presents everything you need to be successful at the most popular games: 9-ball, 8-ball, straight pool, and one pocket. You'll learn how to move and think like an athlete on the playing field while sizing up your next shot. >Precision Pool> will help you become a physically and mentally tougher competitor-one who relishes pressure situations and performs like a champion.After reviewing the fundamentals, such as how to choose cues and equipment and body positioning, you'll learn about aim and vision, two aspects of the sport seldom addressed yet critical to success. The next several chapters cover key techniques and strategies, such as cue ball control, breaks, critical shots, pattern play, safety play, and tactics for special situations. Also included are inventive practice drills and games that make practicing almost as much fun as playing.Complementing the expert instruction are more than 140 diagrams, illustrating each situation and showing exactly how to hit the shot. Among these diagrams are 81 three-dimensional illustrations that provide a perspective very similar to what a player would see while contemplating the next shot. >Precision Pool> presents almost every situation you'll face and tells you how to avoid trouble and hit winning shots when the game is on the line.This book's expert advice will both improve your pool performance and increase the fun you have playing it. Whether you want to beat your friends, take home the league trophy, or cash the winner's check, >Precision Pool> is money in your pocket in becoming a better player.

Precision Pool : Your Guide to Mastering Key Skills, Shots and Strategies, Used [Paperback]

6. Advanced Pool [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Advanced Pool by George Fels

Advanced Pool [Paperback - Used]

7. The Bank Shot, and Other Great Robberies: Minnesota Fats Tell All, Used [Mass Market Paperback]

Here is the autobiography of The Daddy of Them All--the greatest pool hustler the world has ever known--Minnesota Fats. The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies is a candid, anecdote-filled account of the fabulous Fat Man's life, told in his own uninhibited patois. A rollicking, rotund, Runyonesque character, Rudolph Wanderone is part rogue, part philosopher, part sinner, and--if we're not stretching the meaning of the term too far--part saint. He is the last of the old-fashioned high rollers, with a hundred-dollar bill in his handkerchief pocket, and the guts to use it. Recalling the good old days, Minnesota Fats speaks fondly of his hustling escapades, and of his stickmen, men with names like Tuscaloosa Squirrely, Cornbread Red, Handsome Danny Jones and Weanie Beanie, to name a few. He recounts the all-night shoot-outs, the highs and the lows, his long marriage, his one-day stint at college at the height of his career, and the madness surrounding the movie The Hustler, based on his life. As an added dividend for pocket billiard buffs, Professor Fats describes his game and how it is played, illustrating his techniques for chalking the tip, cueing up, and hitting the ball. He also talks about the speed of the stroke, and the development of effective combinations, kiss shots, and bank shots. The Professor takes his pool seriously, and long time players as well as beginners will benefit from his instruction and his expert analysis of the various approaches to the game.

The Bank Shot, and Other Great Robberies: Minnesota Fats Tell All, Used [Mass Market Paperback]

8. Master's Book of Pool & Billiards [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Master's Book of Pool & Billiards by Joe Stone

Master's Book of Pool & Billiards [Paperback - Used]

9. Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler, Used [Paperback]

From a popular senior writer for Sports Illustrated comes this high-stakes, boys-on-the-road story about the most unlikely of phenoms--a heavyset, bipolar, and endlessly charming pool hustler named Kid Delicious.

Running the Table : The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler, Used [Paperback]

10. Pocket billiards with cue tips, Used [Hardcover]

Pocket billiards with cue tips by Edward D. Knuchell

Pocket billiards with cue tips, Used [Hardcover]