The Olympics: Books to Read & DVDs to Watch

The 2018 Olympic Games will take place February 9 through 25 in PyeongChang, South Korea. Some popular events include figure skating, skiing, curling, ice hockey, luging, snowboarding, and speed skating. The Aurora Public Library District has plenty to offer to get you as excited as you can about this global tradition.

Nonfiction:

Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World by David Maraniss

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

A Skating Life: My Story by Dorothy Hamill

Relentless Spirit by Missy Franklin

Miracle on Ice by the Staff of the New York Times

The Treasures of the Olympic Winter Games by Martha McIntosh

I Got This: To Gold and Beyond by Laurie Hernandez

Unbroken: An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand

Olympic Portraits by Annie Leibovitz

6 Below by Eric LeMarque and Davin Seay

Fiction:

Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron

Swift Edge by Laura A.H. DiSilverio

Winners by Danielle Steel

The Games by James Patterson

Gold by Chris Cleave

Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936 by Jeffrey Deaver

DVDs:

Cool Runnings

Eddie the Eagle

Race

Miracle

Be sure to check out the Olympics display featured at the Aurora Public Library on the stairwell between the first and second floors! What’s your favorite event of the Olympics?

Happy Reading!