- Winning Ugly — Brad Gilbert. The best book ever written on competing at club level. You'll win matches the week you finish it.
- The Inner Game of Tennis — W. Timothy Gallwey. The classic on the six inches between your ears. Read it when you play worse in matches than in practice.
- The Tennis Drill Book — Hoskins-Burney & Carrington. The standard modern drill compilation — the coach-facing reference for your shelf.
- Match Play and the Spin of the Ball — Bill Tilden (1925).A century old and still the sharpest thing written about spin and tactics —free to read, along withThe Art of Lawn Tennis.