The Soul of a Butterfly

Written with his daughter Hana, this is Muhammad Ali’s reflective memoir, composed in his later years as Parkinson’s had slowed him. Less a sports story than a spiritual one, it moves through his faith, his family, and the values he arrived at after his boxing career, in short passages and aphorisms rather than a strict chronology. Zeeshan Ali notes he wanted a book by Ali himself rather than a tribute, and recommends this one for that personal, first-person voice.