The Ronde: Inside the World's Toughest Bike Race
By: Edward Pickering
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Every April, up to a million fans line the streets of Flanders to watch one of cycling's most excit…
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1. Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
By: José Saramago , Nick Caistor , Amanda Hopkinson
3.43
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
When José Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal some twenty years ago, his only desire wa… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"As povoações são como as pessoas, aproximamo-nos delas devagar, paulatinamente, não esta invasão súbita, a coberto da escuridão, como se fôssemos salteadores mascarados"-José Saramago, Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
"«Il viaggio non finisce mai. Solo i viaggiatori finiscono. E anche loro possono prolungarsi in memoria, in ricordo, in narrazione. Quando il viaggiatore si è seduto sulla sabbia della spiaggia e ha d…"-José Saramago, Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
"A viagem não acaba nunca. Só os viajantes acabam. E mesmo estes podem prolongar-se em memória, em lembrança, em narrativa. Quando o viajante se sentou na areia da praia e disse: «Não há mais que ver»…"-José Saramago, Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
2. How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
By: Matt Fitzgerald
4.10
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have know… read more
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- nonfiction
- cycling
"Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose."-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,"-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?"-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage."-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
3. 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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- nonfiction
- cycling
4. Etape: The untold stories of the Tour de France's defining stages
By: Richard Moore
2.74
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In ETAPE, critically acclaimed author Richard Moore will take readers on a virtual Tour de France, … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- cycling
5. A Year in Provence
By: Peter Mayle
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Loyal Lieutenant: Leading Out Lance and Pushing Through the Pain on the Rocky Road to Paris
By: George Hincapie , Craig Hummer
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Trading on the sterling reputation that enabled him to survive a widely publicized doping confessio… read more
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- nonfiction
- cycling
7. 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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8. The Rider
By: Sam Garrett , Tim Krabbé
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in the Netherlands in… read more
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9. 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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10. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
11. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
12. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)
By: David McCloskey
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more
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13. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more
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- nonfiction
"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
15. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
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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- cycling
17. 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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- cycling
18. 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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- nonfiction
- cycling
19. The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling’s corruption
By: Matt Rendell
3.62
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
New from award-winning author Matt Rendell, an examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro V… read more
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- cycling
20. 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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- cycling
21. Square Peg, Round Ball: Football, TV and Me: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023
By: Ned Boulting
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'What Ned hasn't seen on a sports TV channel isn't worth knowing about.' Gabby Logan 'From falling… read more
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22. 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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- cycling
23. Sticky Bottle: The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby
By: Carlton Kirby
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'Entertaining, quirky and an enjoyable read' – Phil Liggett MBE 'A genuine one-off with a ready wi… read more
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24. Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists
By: Michael Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprising… read more
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- nonfiction
- cycling
"I lived in a world where, one way or another, everything was divided into things that might make me faster and things that might make me slower. Pretty much anything pleasant fell into the second cat…"-Michael Hutchinson, Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists
25. The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands
By: Harry Pearson
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Cycling is wildly popular all over Belgium, but in the northern, Dutch-speaking half of the country… read more
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- cycling
26. Full Gas: How to Win a Bike Race – Tactics from Inside the Peloton
By: Peter Cossins
3.94
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
** WINNER OF THE CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2019 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS**So … read more
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27. The Ronde: Inside the World's Toughest Bike Race
By: Edward Pickering
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Every April, up to a million fans line the streets of Flanders to watch one of cycling's most excit… read more
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- nonfiction
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28. 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
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29. Higher Calling: Cycling's Obsession with Mountains
By: Max Leonard
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Guaranteed to appeal to all lovers of cycling, the author of Lanterne Rouge explores the glorious—a… read more
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- cycling
30. To Hell on a Bike: Riding Paris-Roubaix: The Toughest Race in Cycling
By: Iain MacGregor
3.81
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
SHORTLISTED FOR CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'Paris-Roubaix is the bes… read more
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- cycling
31. Riding With The Rocketmen: One Man's Journey on the Shoulders of Cycling Giants
By: James Witts
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
' Humble and very funny ' - Ned Boulting ' Essential reading for any Étape rider ' - Daniel Friebe… read more
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