107 books
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167 voters
Marathon Books
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.86 — 213,229 ratings — published 2007
Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,060 ratings — published
Choosing to Run: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,074 ratings — published 2023
26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,288 ratings — published 2019
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.30 — 237,966 ratings — published 2009
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,089,192 ratings — published 1992
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,382,031 ratings — published 1847
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.19 — 215,432 ratings — published 2000
Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.45 — 18,796 ratings — published 2023
Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.35 — 12,967 ratings — published
How to Lose a Marathon: A Starter's Guide to Finishing in 26.2 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,259 ratings — published
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.45 — 683,932 ratings — published 1952
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.39 — 404,673 ratings — published 1879
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,485 ratings — published 2005
First Marathons: Personal Encounters With the 26.2-Mile Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.72 — 317 ratings — published 1998
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,068,092 ratings — published 2013
For the Love of the Grind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,286 ratings — published
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.95 — 345,764 ratings — published 2009
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.35 — 853,453 ratings — published 1978
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.31 — 309,919 ratings — published 2025
The Reformatory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.43 — 88,377 ratings — published 2023
The Covenant of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.40 — 338,880 ratings — published 2023
Mystery at Devil's Paw (Hardy Boys, #38)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,681 ratings — published 1959
Among Strange Victims (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.62 — 486 ratings — published 2013
A Naked Singularity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,232 ratings — published 2008
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,545 ratings — published 1973
Life: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,457 ratings — published 1978
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.86 — 86,193 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,298 ratings — published 1961
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,354 ratings — published 1959
Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,334 ratings — published 2022
A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,296 ratings — published 2021
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,749 ratings — published 2018
Master the Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide for Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.16 — 728 ratings — published 2021
Marathon: You Can Do It! (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,059 ratings — published 2001
Manchild in the Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,215 ratings — published 1965
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,108 ratings — published 1961
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,683 ratings — published 1968
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,513 ratings — published 1973
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,786 ratings — published 1972
Message to the Blackman in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.45 — 937 ratings — published 1965
Meb For Mortals: Harness the Training Methods of a Champion Marathoner to Achieve Peak Running Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,409 ratings — published 2015
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,415,651 ratings — published 2018
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,820,157 ratings — published 2018
In the Penal Colony (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,536 ratings — published 1918
Running Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,429 ratings — published
The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women: Get Off Your Butt and On with Your Training (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,648 ratings — published 2006
The Demon King (Seven Realms, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,388 ratings — published 2009
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,209,638 ratings — published 1954
Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,344 ratings — published 2006
“De meeste vrienden die eens een keertje met me meelopen laten me al na een paar kilometer in de steek. Ze krijgen de slappe lach van het lopen. Ik niet. Er valt voor mij niets te lachen. Hardlopen is voor mij een heel ernstige zaak. In Duitse klassieke muziek wordt ook niet veel gelachen, dus waarom tijdens het hardlopen wel?”
― Marathonloper
― Marathonloper
“And then there's the perverse joy of subtly working in references to marathon training in daily life, say at the post office or while waiting outside my first-graders' classrooms at the end of the school day.”
― Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
― Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity












