Iconic boxer Mike Tyson reveals his must-read books

When Mike Tyson first took up reading in 1992, he would sit with a dictionary beside him and look up the words he didn’t know. And the boxer didn’t shy away from some seriously heavyweight titles — reading Voltaire, Tolstoy, Marx, Mao and Dumas, to name just a fraction of his wide-ranging, hard-hitting bookshelf.

Here, the former heavyweight champion lists his eight favourite titles. From a couple of classics to a stack of black literature and autobiographies, it’s a varied pool of paperbacks — with some shock entries and upsets along the sporting, cerebral way. Read more