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Marathons Books
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Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,834 ratings — published 2015
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 204,848 ratings — published 2007
Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 395 ratings — published 2019
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 234,810 ratings — published 2009
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 21,305 ratings — published 2005
The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 11,815 ratings — published 2019
How to Run a Marathon: The Go-to Guide for Anyone and Everyone (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 878 ratings — published
The Demon King (Seven Realms, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 80,893 ratings — published 2009
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 128,202 ratings — published 2022
Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 18,530 ratings — published 1987
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 404,501 ratings — published 1995
Another Kingdom (Another Kingdom, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,404 ratings — published 2019
Shadows of the Dark Crystal (Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,605 ratings — published 2016
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 335,863 ratings — published 2015
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 3,457,050 ratings — published 2005
The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 441,708 ratings — published 1980
The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
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avg rating 3.53 — 278,885 ratings — published 2009
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 984,035 ratings — published 2006
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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avg rating 4.66 — 675,335 ratings — published 2010
Dune (Dune, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,634,975 ratings — published 1965
Deep Water (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 870 ratings — published 2024
The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.14 — 418,552 ratings — published 1993
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as marathons)
avg rating 3.91 — 666,211 ratings — published 1982
Half Moon Summer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 703 ratings — published 2023
How To Treat Plantar Fasciitis Naturally (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published
50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance! (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 4,147 ratings — published 2008
80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 6,887 ratings — published 2014
From Last to First: A long-distance runner's journey from failure to success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 411 ratings — published 2009
26.2 Miles to Boston: A Journey Into The Heart Of The Boston Marathon (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 272 ratings — published 2014
Ducking Long Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 74 ratings — published
Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as marathons)
avg rating 4.53 — 784 ratings — published 2020
Running to the Edge: A Band of Misfits and the Guru Who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,679 ratings — published
Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,676 ratings — published 2011
Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe – An Olympic-Level Memoir of Training Methods Across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Japan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,446 ratings — published 2016
Running Your First Marathon: The Complete 20-Week Marathon Training Plan (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.14 — 330 ratings — published
Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 39,179 ratings — published 2012
Marathoning for Mortals: A Regular Person's Guide to the Joy of Running or Walking a Half-Marathon or Marathon (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,362 ratings — published 2003
The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,710 ratings — published 1998
The Light That Shines through Infinity: Zen and the Energy of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 101 ratings — published 2017
Boston Bound: A 7-Year Journey to Overcome Mental Barriers and Qualify for the Boston Marathon (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.73 — 421 ratings — published
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 101,866 ratings — published 1996
Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 575 ratings — published 2018
The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 348 ratings — published 2017
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 34,661 ratings — published 2013
Running Like a Girl (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 9,166 ratings — published 2013
Ulysses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 138,237 ratings — published 1922
The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 272 ratings — published 1988
The Mouse Island Marathon (Geronimo Stilton, #30)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,933 ratings — published 2005
Daniels' Running Formula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 5,142 ratings — published 1998
“But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.”
― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“marathon: (noun)
A popular form of overpriced torture wherein participants wake up at ass-o-clock in the morning and stand in the freezing cold until it's time to run, at which point they miserably trot for a god-awful interval of time that could be better spent sleeping in and/or consuming large quantities of beer and cupcakes.
See also: masochism, awfulness, "a bunch of bullshit", boob-chafing, cupcake deprivation therapy”
― The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (Volume 5)
A popular form of overpriced torture wherein participants wake up at ass-o-clock in the morning and stand in the freezing cold until it's time to run, at which point they miserably trot for a god-awful interval of time that could be better spent sleeping in and/or consuming large quantities of beer and cupcakes.
See also: masochism, awfulness, "a bunch of bullshit", boob-chafing, cupcake deprivation therapy”
― The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (Volume 5)
