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Olympics Books
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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 154 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.39 — 361,855 ratings — published 2013
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.39 — 998,348 ratings — published 2010
The Favorites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.05 — 204,572 ratings — published 2025
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,555 ratings — published 2008
Gold (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.71 — 16,850 ratings — published 2012
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,994 ratings — published 2005
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,818 ratings — published 2007
Just Add Water: My Swimming Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,687 ratings — published 2024
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 4.44 — 15,151 ratings — published 2015
The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.73 — 326 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 — 477 ratings — published 2021
Settling the Score (The Summer Games, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,775 ratings — published 2016
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,713 ratings — published 2022
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.57 — 566 ratings — published
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 — 1,186 ratings — published 2000
Olympig! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.63 — 446 ratings — published 2012
Tacky and the Winter Games (Tacky the Penguin)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.83 — 567 ratings — published 2005
Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.20 — 226 ratings — published 2012
Hour of the Olympics (Magic Tree House, #16)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,015 ratings — published 1998
Kiss and Cry (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,400 ratings — published 2022
Head Over Heels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.59 — 22,325 ratings — published 2020
Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,600 ratings — published 2020
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,564 ratings — published 2016
Out of Bounds (The Summer Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,345 ratings — published 2016
Synchronicity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,716 ratings — published 2013
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 — 95 ratings — published 2009
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 4.02 — 403 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 — 4,377 ratings — published 2018
Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.61 — 148 ratings — published 2012
The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,391 ratings — published 2015
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 — 14,063 ratings — published 2012
Olympics! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 46 ratings — published 1996
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,262 ratings — published 2017
Stroked (Stroked, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,103 ratings — published 2016
Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics (The Sports Beat, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,493 ratings — published 2012
G is for Gold Medal: An Olympics Alphabet (Sports Alphabet)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.67 — 99 ratings — published 2011
Let the Games Begin (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,256 ratings — published 2024
One Jump at a Time: My Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,134 ratings — published 2022
Break the Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,113 ratings — published 2020
Relay (Changing Lanes, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,070 ratings — published 2018
Long-Armed Ludy and the First Women's Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.12 — 165 ratings — published
The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics' Top Score—from Nadia to Now (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.81 — 844 ratings — published 2016
Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.54 — 7,827 ratings — published 2015
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,237 ratings — published 1996
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,064 ratings — published 2012
Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,855 ratings — published 2024
Off the Deep End (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.57 — 723 ratings — published 2022
Cold War (Cold War #1-2)
by (shelved 5 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,090 ratings — published 2018
Cold War (Cold War, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.60 — 627 ratings — published 2014
She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.27 — 369 ratings — published
“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
“Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.”
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success












