10 Top cycling books like The Yellow Jersey by Peter Cossins

Cover of The Yellow Jersey by Peter Cossins

The Yellow Jersey

By: Peter Cossins

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2019, the cycling world will celebrate the 100th anniversary of sport's most iconic and distingu…

If you liked the cycling plot in The Yellow Jersey by Peter Cossins , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal by Daniel Friebe

1. Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal

By: Daniel Friebe

3.97

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

For 14 years between 1965 and 1978, Edouard Louis Joseph Merckx simply devoured his rivals, their h… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power by Simon Kuper

2. Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power

By: Simon Kuper

4.50

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death … read more

Similar categories in Simon Kuper's Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago by Tim Moore

3. Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago

By: Tim Moore

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Brit… read more

Similar categories in Tim Moore's Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • nonfiction

4. 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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5. 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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6. The Gaffer: The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager

By: Neil Warnock

4.00

Format: None pages,

Ever wondered how a transfer deal is done? What a manager says during his pre-match team-talk? What… read more

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7. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

By: Daniel James Brown

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more

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8. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By: Donnie Eichar

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriousl… read more

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9. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

By: Reza Aslan

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more

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Cover of Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1) by Patrick O'Brian

10. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

Cover of Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was by Daniel Friebe

11. 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

Similar categories in Daniel Friebe's Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet by Jenny Graham

12. 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

Similar categories in Jenny Graham's Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels by Jonathan Vaughters

13. 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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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling by Alex Dowsett

14. 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

Similar categories in Alex Dowsett's Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

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

15. 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

Similar categories in Dan Martin's Chased by Pandas: My life in the mysterious world of cycling book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent by Andy McGrath

16. 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

Similar categories in Andy McGrath's God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport by Aubrey Sitterson

17. The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport

By: Aubrey Sitterson

4.30

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

From the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot , this graphic novel… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Sitterson's The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
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18. Mountains According to G

By: Geraint Thomas

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Cycling fans obsess about climbs and big mountains. They love reading about their tests and tribula… read more

Similar categories in Geraint Thomas's Mountains According to G book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France by Daniel de Visé

19. The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France

By: Daniel de Visé

4.36

Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition

“Greg LeMond was Lance Armstrong before Lance Armstrong . . . the story of a true hero . . . This i… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of The Yellow Jersey by Peter Cossins

20. The Yellow Jersey

By: Peter Cossins

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2019, the cycling world will celebrate the 100th anniversary of sport's most iconic and distingu… read more

Similar categories in Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of Another Fine Mess: Across the USA in a Ford Model T by Tim Moore

21. Another Fine Mess: Across the USA in a Ford Model T

By: Tim Moore

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman – switches two wheels for four as he journeys across … read more

Similar categories in Tim Moore's Another Fine Mess: Across the USA in a Ford Model T book and Peter Cossins's The Yellow Jersey

  • nonfiction

13 best-selling nonfiction books like The Yellow Jersey by Peter Cossins

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Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal

Daniel Friebe

3.97

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Simon Kuper

4.50

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Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago

Tim Moore

3.80

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Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was

Daniel Friebe

4.31

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Janina Ramírez

4.12

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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Tom Holland

4.22

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Anna Keay

4.39

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