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Marathon Books
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.87 — 206,324 ratings — published 2007
Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,011 ratings — published
Choosing to Run: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,674 ratings — published 2023
26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,196 ratings — published 2019
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.30 — 235,474 ratings — published 2009
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.19 — 213,639 ratings — published 2000
Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,245 ratings — published 2023
Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.35 — 12,645 ratings — published
How to Lose a Marathon: A Starter's Guide to Finishing in 26.2 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,246 ratings — published
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,342 ratings — published 2005
First Marathons: Personal Encounters With the 26.2-Mile Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.72 — 317 ratings — published 1998
Mystery at Devil's Paw (Hardy Boys, #38)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,661 ratings — published 1959
Among Strange Victims (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.62 — 476 ratings — published 2013
A Naked Singularity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,131 ratings — published 2008
Life: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,241 ratings — published 1978
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.86 — 84,724 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,235 ratings — published 1961
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,340 ratings — published 1959
A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,209 ratings — published 2021
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,070 ratings — published 2018
Master the Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide for Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.16 — 697 ratings — published 2021
Marathon: You Can Do It! (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,058 ratings — published 2001
Manchild in the Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,181 ratings — published 1965
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,946 ratings — published 1961
Message to the Blackman in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.45 — 929 ratings — published 1965
Meb For Mortals: Harness the Training Methods of a Champion Marathoner to Achieve Peak Running Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,395 ratings — published 2015
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,372,086 ratings — published 2018
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,759,546 ratings — published 2018
In the Penal Colony (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,472 ratings — published 1918
Running Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,386 ratings — published
The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women: Get Off Your Butt and On with Your Training (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,646 ratings — published 2006
The Demon King (Seven Realms, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,033 ratings — published 2009
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,175,859 ratings — published 1954
Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,317 ratings — published 2006
Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,389 ratings — published 2010
A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,454 ratings — published 2008
Advanced Marathoning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,570 ratings — published
Marathoning for Mortals: A Regular Person's Guide to the Joy of Running or Walking a Half-Marathon or Marathon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,361 ratings — published 2003
Runner's World Run Less, Run Faster: Become a Faster, Stronger Runner with the Revolutionary FIRST Training Program (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,458 ratings — published 2007
Charm (Tales from the Kingdoms, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 3.54 — 3,424 ratings — published 2013
Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,094 ratings — published 2023
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 4.18 — 342,700 ratings — published 1995
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,029,369 ratings — published 2011
From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 4.21 — 862,676 ratings — published 2020
Animal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 3.70 — 50,090 ratings — published 2021
Defy Me (Shatter Me, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 4.26 — 368,162 ratings — published 2019
Tough Guy (Game Changers, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 3.62 — 80,824 ratings — published 2020
Game Changer (Game Changers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 3.80 — 163,183 ratings — published 2018
Resolve by J.J. Hensley (2013-03-31)
by (shelved 1 time as marathon)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
“The marathon is less a physical event than a spiritual encounter. In infinite wisdom, God built into us a 32-km racing limit, a limit imposed by inadequate sources of the marathoner's prime racing fuel - carbohydrates. But we, in our human wisdom, decreed that the standard marathon be raced over 42 km.
So it is in that physical no-man's-land, which begins after the 32-km mark, that the irresistible appeal of the marathon lies. It is at that stage, as the limits to human running endurance are approached, that the marathon ceases to be a physical event. It is there that you, the runner, discover the basis for the ancient proverb: "When you have gone so far that you cannot manage one more step, then you have gone just half the distance that you are capable of." It is there that you learn something about yourself and your view of life." Marathon runners have termed it the wall. (Chapter 10)”
― Lore of Running
So it is in that physical no-man's-land, which begins after the 32-km mark, that the irresistible appeal of the marathon lies. It is at that stage, as the limits to human running endurance are approached, that the marathon ceases to be a physical event. It is there that you, the runner, discover the basis for the ancient proverb: "When you have gone so far that you cannot manage one more step, then you have gone just half the distance that you are capable of." It is there that you learn something about yourself and your view of life." Marathon runners have termed it the wall. (Chapter 10)”
― Lore of Running
“Coffee, it's the original energy drink. After I chug this I'll feel like I could run a marathon, but I won't, because I have two Rubik's Cubes for knees, and they still need to be solved.”
― The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks
― The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks
