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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 157 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.39 — 365,730 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 — 1,005,782 ratings — published 2010
The Favorites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.04 — 250,250 ratings — published 2025
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,564 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 — 5,344 ratings — published 2005
Gold (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.71 — 16,898 ratings — published 2012
Just Add Water: My Swimming Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,045 ratings — published 2024
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,850 ratings — published 2007
The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.73 — 328 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 4.44 — 15,543 ratings — published 2015
Settling the Score (The Summer Games, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,824 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 — 478 ratings — published 2021
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.58 — 585 ratings — published
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,763 ratings — published 2022
Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,873 ratings — published 2020
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 — 1,197 ratings — published 2000
Kiss and Cry (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,685 ratings — published 2022
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 — 12,214 ratings — published 1998
Head Over Heels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.58 — 22,486 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 — 6,660 ratings — published 2016
Out of Bounds (The Summer Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,374 ratings — published 2016
Stroked (Stroked, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,208 ratings — published 2016
Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.60 — 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 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,421 ratings — published 2015
Synchronicity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,730 ratings — published 2013
Tacky and the Winter Games (Tacky the Penguin)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.82 — 592 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 3.72 — 97 ratings — published 2009
Let the Games Begin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,428 ratings — published 2024
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 — 412 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 — 4,441 ratings — published 2018
Relay (Changing Lanes, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,117 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 — 14,152 ratings — published 2012
Olympics! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 47 ratings — published 1996
One Jump at a Time: My Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,203 ratings — published 2022
Cold War (Cold War #1-2)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,172 ratings — published 2018
Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,832 ratings — published 2017
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 — 3,298 ratings — published 2017
Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics (The Sports Beat, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,494 ratings — published 2012
Skate It Till You Make It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.49 — 3,002 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 4.02 — 5,171 ratings — published 2024
She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.26 — 374 ratings — published
Break the Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,209 ratings — published 2020
Beautiful on the Outside (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,178 ratings — published 2019
Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,222 ratings — published 2018
“Compete like you cannot fail.”
― 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














