1. Hitman, Bret Hart
Coming in at 549 pages long, you just knew Bret Hart's independently produced auto biography was going to be good. It didn't fail to live up to expectations, and Bret sheds light on various subjects; from cheating on his wife, Vince McMahon partying, backstage fights, wrestlers who took crack ... the pages are rammed with drama and incident. It is even better to read the book now that Bret has returned to the WWE - it only serves to further highlight his own ego any hypocrisy which is painfully obvious in the books pages. I don't think that's a bad thing though, part of the entertainment factor in this book is realizing just how much of an ego maniac Bret really is. On Shawn Michaels he states "Shawn will always be a phony, a liar and a hairless yellow dog. The difference between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels is that I'd have never done to him, or to any of the boys, what he did to me." Bret goes on to say, "I'll never forgive Shawn or Hunter, for killing the business that so many of us gave our lives for." That statement is of course a load of rubbish. Bret would forgive the pair and work for Hunter just a few years later. Far from killing the business, it was Michaels and Hunter's open attitude to change in the mid 90's that ushered in the most profitable years of the industry. Not to focus too much on the entertainment of Bret's delusions though, this is a great book. The history and his experience recollections are a fantastic insight into the industry. His world travels, Hart family moments, working for Vince in New York ... this really is the ultimate wrestling book. A great historical collectors item and an entertaining read.