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Books for Adults

Non-fiction

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

Total Olympics: Every Obscure, Hilarious, Dramatic, and Inspiring Tale worth Knowing by Jeremy Fuchs

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 by Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher

Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics by Jules Boykoff

Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith by Gabrielle Douglas with Michelle Burford

Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women by Roseanne Montillo

Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother’s murder, John du Pont’s Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold by Mark Schultz, with David Thomas

Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures edited by American Ferrera with E. Cayce Dumont (for essays from Michelle Kwan & Laurie Hernandez)

Fiction

The Rat Catchers’ Olympics by Colin Cotterill

The Happiest Girl in the World: A Novel by Alena Dillon

The Resisters: A Novel by Gish Jen

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri; translated by Morgan Giles

Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team by Elise Hooper

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