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Excellent suggestions above! The book that got me into the martial-arts was "The Manual of the Martial Arts" (1981) - Ron Van Clief ( I was 11 at the time).
Plus;
One Encounter, One Chance (Karate - Webster-Doyle)
It's a Lot Like Dancing (Aikido - Dobson)
Zen and the Martial Arts (of course)
Lung Ying Mor-Kiew (Chow Fook & CS Tang) - only if you practice the art...
Iron and Silk (Wushu - Salzman)
Anything by Dave Lowry (Autumn Lighting / Moving Toward Stillness)
The Classical Man (Karate - Richard Kim - much like Adam Hsu - very inspiring)
Steal My Art (T.T. Liang - Tai Chi)
Chinese Boxing (Robert Smith)
There are no Secrets (Tai Chi - Lowenthal)
Chronicals of Tao (Deng Ming Dao - largely allegorial piece)
The Way of the Warrior (Reid & Croucher) - good overview
Fiction:
All martial-artists should have read all 140+ books by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir - Destroyer series - Sinanju (Remo Williams). They were written in the early 1960's and pre-date James Bond et. al who borrowed heavily from their work.
All martial-artists should have read Clavell's work (especially Shogun)
All martial-artists have probably read Eric Van Lustbader's series (the Ninja, Miko, etc.). It was great when it came out!!!
So many great books have been written on the arts - haven't seen a good new book in quite some time though...(not that I've been looking very hard though!)
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