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15 Great Bridge Books for Complete Bridge Beginners

A Big List of Bridge Books is something that any bridge player could do with.

Where to start, where to end and how to get better; then, there are the thousands of additional questions that might appear from a bridge player’s mind at any point in time from the beginning through to the very end.

Here’s a great list of 25 bridge books for complete bridge beginners.

1. A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (Hoyle)

2. Watson on the Play of the Hand at Contract Bridge (Watson)

3. Bridge in a Hurry (Klinger)

4. Contract Bridge for Beginners (Goren)

5. Five Weeks to Winning Bridge (Sheinwold) 

6. Duplicate Bridge (Sheinwold)

7. Why You Lose at Bridge (SJ Simon) 

8. The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (Various) 

9. 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know (Smith & Seagram) 

10. 25 (More) Bridge Conventions You Should Know (Smith & Seagram) 

11. Bridge for Dummies (Eddie Kantar) 

12. To Bid or Not to Bid (Cohen) 

13. The Language of Bridge (Woolsey) 

14. Modern Competitive Bidding (Grant)

15. The New York Times Guide to Practical Bridge (Truscott)