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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
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
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Sports in the Water Romance Style
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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

Daniel James Brown
Standing there watching them, it occurred to me that when Hitler watched Joe and the boys fight their way back from the rear of the field to sweep ahead of Italy and Germany seventy-five years ago, he saw, but did not recognize heralds of his doom. He could not have known that one day hundreds of thousands of boys just like them, boys who shared their essential natures--decent and unassuming, not privileged or favored by anything in particular, just loyal, committed, and perseverant--would retur ...more
Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics

Bonnie Garmus
As any non-rower can tell you, rowers are not fun. This is because rowers only ever want to talk about rowing. Get two or more rowers in a room and the conversation goes from normal topics like work or weather to long, pointless stories about boats, blisters, oars, grips, ergs, feathers, workouts, catches, releases, recoveries, splits, seas, strokes, slides, starts, settles, sprints, and whether the water was really “flat” or not. From there, it usually progresses to what went wrong on the last ...more
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