21 must-read nonfiction books like God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent by Andy McGrath

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God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent

By: Andy McGrath

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by Willia…

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1. Shut Up, Legs!: My Wild Ride On and Off the Bike

By: Jens Voigt , James D. Startt

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Beloved German cyclist Jens Voigt isn’t a superstar in the traditional sense of the word. Although … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
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2. Draft Animals

By: Phil Gaimon

3.60

Format: 246 pages,

From the author of the cult favorite Pro Cycling on $10 a Day and Ask a Pro, the story of one man's… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
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3. Thomas Dekker - mijn gevecht

By: Thijs Zonneveld

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Thomas Dekker (1984) heeft genoeg van de leugens. Zijn echte verhaal is nog nooit verteld. De waarh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling

4. The Blade Artist

By: Irvine Welsh

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A succ… read more

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5. The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

By: Daniel Coyle , Tyler Hamilton

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe Secret Racei… read more

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6. Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson

By: William Fotheringham

3.89

Format: 575 pages, Paperback

'The best cycling biography ever written' - Velo Tom Simpson was an Olympic medallist, world champi… read more

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7. The Badger: The Life of Bernard Hinault and the Legacy of French Cycling

By: William Fotheringham

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Bernard Hinault is one of the greatest cyclists of all time. He is a five-time winner of the Tour d… read more

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8. Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France

By: Richard Moore

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Tour de France is sport's most compelling battle -- an annual cauldron of heroism and treachery… read more

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9. Racing Through the Dark

By: David Millar , Jeremy Whittle

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped… read more

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10. Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro

By: Phil Gaimon

3.96

Format: None pages,

Plump, grumpy, slumped on the couch, and going nowhere fast at age 16, Phil Gaimon began riding a b… read more

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11. The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography

By: Matt Rendell

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

At 9:30 pm on February 14, 2004, former Tour de France winner Marco Pantani was found dead in Rimin… read more

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12. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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13. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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14. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. Tour de Force

By: Mark Cavendish

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'I pulled off my glasses and wiped my eyes. " That was perhaps the last race of my career..."' Dee… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
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16. Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was

By: Daniel Friebe

4.31

Format: 610 pages, Kindle Edition

Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most natu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
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17. The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey

By: Geraint Thomas

4.20

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
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18. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet

By: Jenny Graham

4.56

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more

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  • biography
  • cycling
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19. One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

By: Jonathan Vaughters

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
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20. Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling

By: Alex Dowsett

4.55

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 – CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR'Immensely readable and revea… read more

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  • cycling
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21. The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

By: The Secret Cyclist

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Who is The Secret Cyclist and why all the secrecy? "Every public aspect of our lives is so tight… read more

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"To me, cycling can be glorious and it can be grubby, but quite often, it’s neither. It’s just pedalling for hours and hours for relatively little in return."

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

"It takes a special kind of person to want to be a professional cyclist. If you have another opportunity, such as university, you really have to think long and hard about it, because unless you’re ver…"

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

"If you want to know the truth about the latest equipment, don’t ask a pro. At least not one that’s speaking on the record. We’re told what to use and we have to be positive about it, even when it suc…"

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

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22. The Racer

By: David Millar

4.22

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

What is it really like to be a racer?What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of th… read more

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  • sports
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Cover of Chased by Pandas: My life in the mysterious world of cycling by Dan Martin

23. Chased by Pandas: My life in the mysterious world of cycling

By: Dan Martin

3.93

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is Dan Martin's long-awaited autobiography, full of 'the warmth, sharp insights and vivid col… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
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24. God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent

By: Andy McGrath

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by Willia… read more

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  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
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25. The Break: FEATURED ON THE NETFLIX SERIES TOUR DE FRANCE: UNCHAINED

By: Steve Cummings

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*The gripping and revealing au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster by Lucy Easthope

26. When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster

By: Lucy Easthope

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Professor Lucy Easthope is the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She's the one th… read more

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  • biography
Cover of 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession by Ned Boulting

27. 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

By: Ned Boulting

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film… read more

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Cover of Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling by Peter Cossins

28. Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling

By: Peter Cossins

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why h… read more

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Cover of The Beautiful Race: The Story of the Giro d'Italia by Colin O'Brien

29. The Beautiful Race: The Story of the Giro d'Italia

By: Colin O'Brien

3.68

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Born of tumult in 1909, the Giro d'Italia helped unite a nation. Since then, it has reflected it's … read more

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30. Monuments

By: Peter Cossins

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling’s one-day tests t… read more

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Cover of Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel

31. Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By: Daniel Rachel

4.36

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national conscience as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Mad… read more

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16 must-read biography books like God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent by Andy McGrath

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up, Legs!: My Wild Ride On and Off the Bike

Jens Voigt , James D. Startt

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Draft Animals

Phil Gaimon

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Thomas Dekker - mijn gevecht

Thijs Zonneveld

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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14 Top nonfiction books like Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling by Peter Cossins

Transform Your Habits

Thomas Dekker - mijn gevecht

Thijs Zonneveld

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Etape: The untold stories of the Tour de France's defining stages

Richard Moore

2.74

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Shortest History of Germany

James Hawes

3.72

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