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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Lessons in Chemistry
The Amateurs
Red Rose Crew: A True Story Of Women, Winning, And The Water
Assault on Lake Casitas
A Most Beautiful Thing
Blood Over Water
The Shell Game: Reflections on Rowing and the Pursuit of Excellence
Flat Water Tuesday
Rowing Faster
Over het water
Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX
Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing
Oar Than Friends (Oxbridge #1)
The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Revenge, and Redemption
Forbidden Summit by Kirk J PocanRacing Hearts by Ann  AdamsRide by Harper DallasLet the Games Begin by Rufaro Faith MazaruraWaking Olivia by Elizabeth O'Roark
Obscure Sport Romances
42 books — 2 voters
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James BrownFlat Water Tuesday by Ron  IrwinHorace Higby, Coxswain of the Crew by William HeumanHead of the River by Pip HarryThe Amateurs by David Halberstam
Best Rowing Books
24 books — 16 voters

Trade Me by Courtney MilanCarrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins ReidBinding 13 by Chloe WalshCourting Cinderella by Mackenzie LucasKeeping 13 by Chloe Walsh
Romance with Less Common Sports
62 books — 21 voters
Diver's Heart by K.A. KnightDeep End by Ali HazelwoodSettling the Score by R.S. GreyAttraction by Penny ReidWhere We Belong by Eve Connell
Sports in the Water Romance Style
108 books — 12 voters

And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist and his paint. What I learned wasn't mastery over the elements; it was mastery over myself, which is what conquest is ultimately all about. ...more
Richard Bode , First You Have to Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life & Living

Lisa Birnbach
The Head of the Charles in Cambridge, Mass., is the great American crew event, athletically and socially. It occurs the second weekend in October; secondary schools and colleges send shells in all categories in the three-mile race up the Charles River. Drunken Preps line the banks and bridges at Harvard, ready to howl with glee as a coxswain rams his shell into a stanchion of the Eliot Street Bridge (where the river narrows and curves with treacherous suddenness).
Lisa Birnbach, The Official Preppy Handbook

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