Quest to Lighten My Non-Fiction TBR - hosted by misfitmoxie

Sports
Perhaps a biography of a sporting legend or a treatise on a specific sport. It can even be a tangential connection to sports for those who aren't fans. 
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Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky

Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

Katie Ledecky

256 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir
Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner by CeCe Tefler

Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner

CeCe Tefler

304 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir sports
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters, Michael Waters

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

Michael Waters, Michael Waters

368 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ sports challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History by Seth Berkman

A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History

Seth Berkman

384 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography sports emotional medium-paced
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin

Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

John Carlin

274 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history sports informative reflective slow-paced
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

179 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction memoir inspiring reflective medium-paced
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Laura Hillenbrand

457 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography history sports adventurous hopeful inspiring slow-paced
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