Rowing


The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Lessons in Chemistry
The Amateurs
Red Rose Crew: A True Story Of Women, Winning, And The Water
Assault on Lake Casitas
Blood Over Water
A Most Beautiful Thing
The Shell Game: Reflections on Rowing and the Pursuit of Excellence
Flat Water Tuesday
Rowing Faster
Over het water
Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX
Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing
Oar Than Friends (Oxbridge #1)
The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Revenge, and Redemption
No Number Nine by F.J. CampbellTumbling by Caela CarterPairing Off by Elizabeth HarmonSettling the Score by R.S. GreyStroked by Meghan Quinn
The Olympics - Fiction
147 books — 45 voters
Diver's Heart by K.A. KnightDeep End by Ali HazelwoodSettling the Score by R.S. GreyAttraction by Penny ReidWhere We Belong by Eve Connell
Sports in the Water Romance Style
108 books — 12 voters

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James BrownHorace Higby, Coxswain of the Crew by William HeumanFlat Water Tuesday by Ron  IrwinHead of the River by Pip HarryThe Amateurs by David Halberstam
Best Rowing Books
23 books — 15 voters

Few experiences can match the heady pleasure of trailing one's hand gently through the cool smoothness of water, of feeling the surging movement, the gentle increase of pressure and caress between the fingers with each pull of the oars. ...more
Norman Thelwell, A Plank Bridge by a Pool

And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist and his paint. What I learned wasn't mastery over the elements; it was mastery over myself, which is what conquest is ultimately all about. ...more
Richard Bode , First You Have to Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life & Living

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