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The number of biographies and memoirs about Paul W. Bryant has reached a point it's easy to miss some of the lesser known ones. One that might easily go under the radar would be Delbert Reed's 1996...

The very first book about Alabama football ever published was Champ Pickens' pictorial magazine, "The Will To Win" commemorating the 1926 Rose Bowl Champions. One recently sold at auction for more than $7,000.

The RBR Reading Room examines Richard Scott's 2004 book "Legends of Alabama Football."

The RBR Reading Room looks at Clyde Bolton's 1980 book, "They Wore Crimson," an account of Alabama football history in the recollections of ten players.

Jim Grammer's "The Long Gravel Road to Bama" is the invaluable tale of what it took to make it in Bear Bryant's Alabama team in the late 1960s.

The RBR Reading Room looks at the 1974 history of Alabama football, George Langford's "The Crimson Tide."

The RBR Reading Room looks at "Young Bear" a young-adult book that tells the life of Paul Bryant growing up in Fordyce, Arkansas.

For three decades, John Forney was the voice of Alabama football. And when he finally wrote a book about it, "Above the Noise of the Crowd," boy was it a doozy.

Chris Brown's new book "The Essential Smart Football" is a superb starting point if you want to learn more about Coach Saban's football strategy.

The RBR Reading Room ponders the Iron Bowl rivalry with a review of Ivan Maisel and Kelly Whiteside's 2001 book "A War In Dixie."