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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 127 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.39 — 371,275 ratings — published 2013
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,898,101 ratings — published 2022
The Amateurs (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,560 ratings — published 1985
Red Rose Crew: A True Story Of Women, Winning, And The Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.04 — 824 ratings — published 2000
Assault on Lake Casitas (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.35 — 515 ratings — published 1990
A Most Beautiful Thing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,486 ratings — published 2020
Blood Over Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.08 — 179 ratings — published 2009
The Shell Game: Reflections on Rowing and the Pursuit of Excellence (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.12 — 225 ratings — published 1982
Rowing Faster (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.04 — 139 ratings — published 2004
Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.76 — 242 ratings — published 2015
Flat Water Tuesday (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,593 ratings — published 2013
Over het water (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.88 — 621 ratings — published 1998
Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.77 — 284 ratings — published 1998
See You at the Finish Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.47 — 3,117 ratings — published 2025
Oar Than Friends (Oxbridge #1)
by (shelved 6 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,797 ratings — published
The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Revenge, and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.10 — 119 ratings — published
Essential Sculling: An Introduction To Basic Strokes, Equipment, Boat Handling, Technique, And Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.05 — 60 ratings — published 2000
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,296 ratings — published 2001
The Wonder Crew: The Untold Story of a Coach, Navy Rowing, and Olympic Immortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.55 — 75 ratings — published 2008
The Complete Guide to Indoor Rowing (Complete Guides)
by (shelved 5 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.71 — 51 ratings — published 2012
Small Puddles: The Triumphant Story of Yale's Worst Oarsman. Ever. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.06 — 68 ratings — published
True Blue: the Oxford Boat Race mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.25 — 207 ratings — published 1989
No Mark Upon Her (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #14)
by (shelved 5 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,477 ratings — published 2011
Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?: Olympic-Winning Strategies for Everyday Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.92 — 821 ratings — published 2011
Wanted:Rowing Coach (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.97 — 36 ratings — published 1995
Racing Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,847 ratings — published 2026
Masters Sculling: Technique and Training (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
The 4 Year Olympian: From First Stroke to Olympic Medallist (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.10 — 176 ratings — published
Wanted: Rowing Coach (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.96 — 56 ratings — published 1996
Dead in the Water (Daisy Dalrymple, #6)
by (shelved 4 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.68 — 4,240 ratings — published 1998
Row Daily, Breathe Deeper, Live Better: A Guide to Moderate Exercise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.70 — 61 ratings — published 2008
Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.03 — 462 ratings — published 2009
A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,489 ratings — published 2009
The Art of Sculling (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.96 — 24 ratings — published 1991
Sculling: Training, Technique & Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2005
The Short and Snarky Guide to Coxing & Rowing: Straight Talk on Coxing and Rowing from Real Coxswains (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.44 — 25 ratings — published 2014
Better Great Than Never: Believing It's Possible Is Where Champions Begin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.45 — 109 ratings — published
The Sphinx of the Charles: A Year at Harvard with Harry Parker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.14 — 50 ratings — published
The Kiwi Pair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.28 — 181 ratings — published
Still Water (The Boys of Bellamy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.07 — 620 ratings — published 2017
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 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.45 — 16,069 ratings — published 2015
High Performance Rowing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.83 — 42 ratings — published 1997
A Golden Age - Steve Redgrave The Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.71 — 111 ratings — published 2004
Tip of the Blade: Notes on Rowing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2008
Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.74 — 226 ratings — published 2013
Rowing and Sculling: The Complete Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.73 — 15 ratings — published 2001
A Lifetime in a Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.28 — 244 ratings — published 2004
Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.68 — 81 ratings — published 1999
Drawn to the Rhythm: A Passionate Life Reclaimed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 4.08 — 157 ratings — published 2002
The Doctor Rocks the Boat (Dr. Fenimore Mysteries, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as rowing)
avg rating 3.51 — 47 ratings — published 2006
“But the greatest paradox of the sport has to do with the psychological makeup of the people who pull the oars. Great oarsmen and oarswomen are necessarily made of conflicting stuff—of oil and water, fire and earth. On the one hand, they must possess enormous self-confidence, strong egos, and titanic willpower. They must be almost immune to frustration. Nobody who does not believe deeply in himself or herself—in his or her ability to endure hardship and to prevail over adversity—is likely even to attempt something as audacious as competitive rowing at the highest levels. The sport offers so many opportunities for suffering and so few opportunities for glory that only the most tenaciously self-reliant and self-motivated are likely to succeed at it. And yet, at the same time—and this is key—no other sport demands and rewards the complete abandonment of the self the way that rowing does. Great crews may have men or women of exceptional talent or strength; they may have outstanding coxswains or stroke oars or bowmen; but they have no stars. The team effort—the perfectly synchronized flow of muscle, oars, boat, and water; the single, whole, unified, and beautiful symphony that a crew in motion becomes—is all that matters. Not the individual, not the self.”
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
“How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had slipped his oars and lay flat on his back in the bottom of the boat, letting it drift with the current, seeing nothing but the sky gliding slowly by above him, his face aglow with a foretaste of happiness and peace!”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
