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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 — 369,747 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 — 1,014,351 ratings — published 2010
The Favorites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.02 — 276,576 ratings — published 2025
Just Add Water: My Swimming Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,343 ratings — published 2024
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,576 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 4.19 — 5,475 ratings — published 2005
Gold (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.71 — 16,940 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 — 1,877 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 — 327 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 — 15,944 ratings — published 2015
Settling the Score (The Summer Games, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,872 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 — 489 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 — 10,076 ratings — published 2020
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.58 — 593 ratings — published
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,801 ratings — published 2022
Kiss and Cry (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,784 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 — 1,213 ratings — published 2000
Head Over Heels (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.58 — 22,660 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 — 6,777 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 — 2,457 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 — 12,352 ratings — published 1998
Out of Bounds (The Summer Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,408 ratings — published 2016
Stroked (Stroked, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,320 ratings — published 2016
Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.61 — 151 ratings — published 2012
Synchronicity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,754 ratings — published 2013
Tacky And The Winter Games (Tacky the Penguin)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.82 — 593 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 — 2,547 ratings — published 2024
One Jump at a Time: My Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,245 ratings — published 2022
Cold War (Cold War #1-2)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,187 ratings — published 2018
Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,899 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 — 423 ratings — published 2018
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,514 ratings — published 2018
Relay (Changing Lanes, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,136 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 — 14,232 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 4.23 — 1,231 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 — 3,340 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 4.40 — 9,422 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 — 1,503 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 — 1,115 ratings — published 2009
Skate It Till You Make It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,304 ratings — published
Fated Skates (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,004 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 4.01 — 5,407 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
“Act like a champion, and then become one.”
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
“Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.”
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
