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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.86 — 218,520 ratings — published 2007
Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,097 ratings — published
Choosing to Run: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,329 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 — 5,371 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 — 240,283 ratings — published 2009
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,416,832 ratings — published 1847
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.19 — 217,019 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 — 19,189 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 — 13,216 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 — 1,267 ratings — published
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.46 — 729,693 ratings — published 1952
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.40 — 415,827 ratings — published 1879
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,624 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
For the Love of the Grind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,153 ratings — published
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.95 — 349,772 ratings — published 2009
The Covenant of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.40 — 352,663 ratings — published 2023
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,127,312 ratings — published 1992
Mystery at Devil's Paw (Hardy Boys, #38)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,694 ratings — published 1959
Rain of Shadows and Endings (Legacy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.00 — 89,186 ratings — published 2023
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,603,595 ratings — published 2015
Among Strange Victims (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.61 — 491 ratings — published 2013
A Naked Singularity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,310 ratings — published 2008
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,282 ratings — published 1973
Life: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,631 ratings — published 1978
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.85 — 87,472 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,376 ratings — published 1961
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,138 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 4.04 — 1,368 ratings — published 2022
A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,364 ratings — published 2021
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,323 ratings — published 2018
Master the Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide for Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.16 — 752 ratings — published 2021
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,189,497 ratings — published 2018
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 — 9,244 ratings — published 1965
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,022 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 — 1,691 ratings — published 1968
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,733 ratings — published 1973
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,860 ratings — published 1972
Message to the Blackman in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.44 — 948 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 — 1,412 ratings — published 2015
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,478,260 ratings — published 2018
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,874,816 ratings — published 2018
In the Penal Colony (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,506 ratings — published 1918
Running Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,466 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 — 1,650 ratings — published 2006
The Demon King (Seven Realms, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,644 ratings — published 2009
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,239,854 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 — 2,355 ratings — published 2006
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as marathon)
avg rating 4.22 — 866,131 ratings — published 1862
“You can't judge a Psychosis, unless you endured one – just as you can't judge running a Marathon, unless you endured one.”
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“The marathon is less a physical event than a spiritual encounter. In infinite wisdom, God built into us a 32-km racing limit, a limit imposed by inadequate sources of the marathoner's prime racing fuel - carbohydrates. But we, in our human wisdom, decreed that the standard marathon be raced over 42 km.
So it is in that physical no-man's-land, which begins after the 32-km mark, that the irresistible appeal of the marathon lies. It is at that stage, as the limits to human running endurance are approached, that the marathon ceases to be a physical event. It is there that you, the runner, discover the basis for the ancient proverb: "When you have gone so far that you cannot manage one more step, then you have gone just half the distance that you are capable of." It is there that you learn something about yourself and your view of life." Marathon runners have termed it the wall. (Chapter 10)”
― Lore of Running
So it is in that physical no-man's-land, which begins after the 32-km mark, that the irresistible appeal of the marathon lies. It is at that stage, as the limits to human running endurance are approached, that the marathon ceases to be a physical event. It is there that you, the runner, discover the basis for the ancient proverb: "When you have gone so far that you cannot manage one more step, then you have gone just half the distance that you are capable of." It is there that you learn something about yourself and your view of life." Marathon runners have termed it the wall. (Chapter 10)”
― Lore of Running
