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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.39 — 372,188 ratings — published 2013
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,019,270 ratings — published 2010
The Favorites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.02 — 286,912 ratings — published 2025
Just Add Water: My Swimming Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,486 ratings — published 2024
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,586 ratings — published 2008
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,551 ratings — published 2005
Gold (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.71 — 16,966 ratings — published 2012
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,890 ratings — published 2007
The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.74 — 330 ratings — published 2016
The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.45 — 16,125 ratings — published 2015
Settling the Score (The Summer Games, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,888 ratings — published 2016
Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.21 — 490 ratings — published 2021
Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,167 ratings — published 2020
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.58 — 599 ratings — published
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,820 ratings — published 2022
Kiss and Cry (Love on the Ice #2)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,823 ratings — published 2022
Olympig! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.64 — 450 ratings — published 2012
One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God" (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,224 ratings — published 2000
Head Over Heels (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.58 — 22,742 ratings — published 2020
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,828 ratings — published 2016
The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,478 ratings — published 2015
Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.19 — 228 ratings — published 2012
Hour of the Olympics (Magic Tree House, #16)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,447 ratings — published 1998
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,588 ratings — published 2018
Out of Bounds (The Summer Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,415 ratings — published 2016
Stroked (Stroked, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,378 ratings — published 2016
Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.60 — 153 ratings — published 2012
Synchronicity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,759 ratings — published 2013
Tacky And The Winter Games (Tacky the Penguin)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.81 — 598 ratings — published 2005
Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.73 — 99 ratings — published 2009
Let the Games Begin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,613 ratings — published 2024
One Jump at a Time: My Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,257 ratings — published 2022
Cold War & Holding the Edge (Cold War #1-2)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,194 ratings — published 2018
Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,915 ratings — published 2017
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.04 — 425 ratings — published 2018
Relay (Changing Lanes, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,144 ratings — published 2018
Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,283 ratings — published 2012
Olympics! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 47 ratings — published 1996
Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream (Audiobook)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,242 ratings — published 2018
Long-Armed Ludy and the First Women's Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.13 — 169 ratings — published
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,378 ratings — published 2017
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.41 — 9,516 ratings — published 2012
Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics (The Sports Beat, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,508 ratings — published 2012
Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,124 ratings — published 2009
Skate It Till You Make It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,392 ratings — published
Fated Skates (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,031 ratings — published
G is for Gold Medal: An Olympics Alphabet (Sports Alphabet)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.68 — 102 ratings — published 2011
Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,519 ratings — published 2024
She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.27 — 381 ratings — published
“If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.”
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
“Francesca had grown up watching me, like I'd grown up watching Sheila. She said I was inspiring, but what had I inspired? There was no joy left in her, no light. Those smiles were a mask, concealing a molten core of grasping ambition.
I wanted to shake her by the shoulders and tell her it wasn't too late. She could wake up. She could realize there was more to life than winning.
Happiness couldn't be won. It couldn't be hung around our necks while a crowd of thousands cheered. It wasn't a prize, something we had to suffer and toil to earn. If we wanted happiness, we had to create it ourselves. Not in one shining moment on a medal stand, but every single day, over and over again.
I could have told Francesca all that, but it wouldn't have mattered. She'd have to learn for herself, like I did.”
― The Favorites
I wanted to shake her by the shoulders and tell her it wasn't too late. She could wake up. She could realize there was more to life than winning.
Happiness couldn't be won. It couldn't be hung around our necks while a crowd of thousands cheered. It wasn't a prize, something we had to suffer and toil to earn. If we wanted happiness, we had to create it ourselves. Not in one shining moment on a medal stand, but every single day, over and over again.
I could have told Francesca all that, but it wouldn't have mattered. She'd have to learn for herself, like I did.”
― The Favorites
