Dan Jenkins Books in Order

A collection of Jenkins's college football writing from the 1960s, full of rivalries, coaches, recruiting drama, and regional swagger. It captures the pageantry, noise, and weird charm that made Saturdays feel bigger than the game.

Billy Clyde Puckett, star halfback for the New York Giants, keeps a journal as his team heads toward a showdown with the Jets. The result is a fast, funny football satire that helped make Jenkins's name as a novelist.

Tour pro Kenny Lee Puckett moves through the PGA circus with talent, appetite, and trouble close behind. Jenkins turns golf life into a funny, rough-edged novel about ambition, sex, money, and the absurd business of staying competitive.

A network television executive named Frank Mallory tries to hold his life together while cruising Manhattan in a Rolls-Royce limo. The novel is a sharp, boozy satire of television power, celebrity culture, and people who confuse ratings with reality.

After decades around the game, Jenkins brings together some of his best golf writing in one place. The book mixes tour stories, opinions, and lore, and it works both as an introduction to his voice and a love-hate valentine to golf.

Juanita Hutchins tends bar in South Fort Worth, worries over her family, and keeps chasing her dream of writing country songs. Jenkins gives her a funny, messy Texas world full of sharp talk, bad choices, and stubborn hope.

Billy Clyde Puckett returns, now injured and working in television, with Barbara Jane and Shake Tiller still in orbit. It keeps the football-world satire going, with more talk, trouble, and comic fallout from fame.

A large-format celebration of the sport, this book pairs Dan Jenkins's commentary with Walter Iooss Jr.'s photographs. It is more atmosphere and visual history than analysis, built to capture the look and swagger of football.

In 1935, Betsy Throckmorton leaves New York for small-town Texas to edit her father's paper. What starts as a homecoming turns into a sharp, funny period novel about journalism, ambition, football, and a murder story that won't sit still.

A classic collection of golf pieces drawn from Jenkins's magazine work, mixing profiles, anecdotes, and sharp-eyed history. It celebrates the game's legends and oddballs while showing how funny, cruel, and human golf can be.

This collection brings together Jenkins's best magazine pieces and columns on football, golf, and the people who make sports ridiculous. He skewers owners, officials, and phonies, but he also makes room for the games and players he truly loves.

Irreverent columnist Jim Tom Pinch spends a year tearing through the hype machine of big-time sports. Following events from the Olympics to the Indy 500, he delivers a funny, sour, behind-the-scenes look at sportswriting and spectacle.

Jenkins turns the idea of Bubba into a running comic monologue on everything from beer and movies to politics and manners. It is broad, goofy, and very much built around his taste for argument and exaggeration.

As guest editor, Jenkins helps assemble a strong annual anthology of sports journalism, covering the biggest people and stories of 1994. It is a good snapshot of the era, with pieces from across the sporting world.

Billy Clyde Puckett is back, now helping run a new NFL team while his wife and old friend Shake drift into Hollywood trouble. Jenkins uses the chaos to deliver a big, boozy satire of football, marriage, and Texas excess.

Part photo book, part football argument, and part tall tale, this one dives into Texas, America, and college football. Jenkins mixes real history with fictional voices as a showdown week gets everybody talking.

Bobby Joe Grooves has Texas charm, one win a year, and no major title to show for his career. While chasing a Ryder Cup spot, he has to juggle tour politics, old romances, and the modern golf circus.

Fort Worth tour veteran Bobby Joe Grooves is 44, still without a major, and running short on chances. As another big tournament looms, Jenkins turns his last-gasp chase into a funny, insider look at pressure, ego, and life on tour.

Jenkins traces TCU football through archival photos, memorabilia, and stories from the program's past. It is a visual history built for Horned Frogs fans who want names, moments, and old-school atmosphere.

When forty-something golf writer Jack Brannon gets bored with the PGA Tour, he starts following teenage LPGA phenom Ginger Clayton. His assignment turns darker when it seems someone wants the rising star out of competition for good.

This collection gathers Jenkins's major-championship writing from the 1950s through the Tiger era. It is part golf history, part front-row reporting, and a good way to sample the voice that made him essential reading.

Jenkins looks back on his life from Fort Worth newsrooms to the big stages of Sports Illustrated and golf's major championships. Part memoir and part running monologue, it is full of career stories, famous names, and his usual dry bite.

A lively collection of golf stories about great rounds, tour rivalries, unforgettable talk, and the sport's strangest characters. Jenkins loves the game, but he never stops poking at its vanity and nonsense.

Pete Wallace, a Texas-bred athletic director at Western Ohio University, is ready to retire from the madness of major college sports. As he waits out the politics, he looks back on coaches, boosters, trustees, and the whole ridiculous arms race.

Jenkins ranges across the whole sports world in this late essay collection, taking shots at owners, players, fans, and modern absurdities. The result is funny, cranky, and packed with the voice that made his columns so readable.