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