Big Sporting Read

The Reading Agency and BBC Arts has launched the Big Sporting Read, with a list of 25 titles celebrating a landmark summer of sport. The campaign aims to use the power of sport to inspire readers across the UK, highlighting the links between sporting excellent, reading, health and wellbeing.

Here are the titles available at Kirklees Libraries.

Updated June 26, 2024
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Coffee first, then the world : one woman's record-breaking pedal around the planet
Graham, Jenny (Endurance cyclist)
Paper Book
SELECTED FOR THE BBC AND READING AGENCY'S BIG SPORTING READ 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 - CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT 'An amazing adventure... I was left in total awe' - Lorraine...
Coming up for air : what I learned from sport, fame and fatherhood
Daley, Tom
Paper Book
A deeply personal and inspiring memoir from the celebrated Olympic gold medal diver and LGBTQ+ advocate, who is set to make history in his fifth Olympic games in Paris 2024 Tom Daley is one of the most beloved athletes of our time,  garnering Olympic diving medals and...
Don't tell me you're afraid
Catozzella, Giuseppe
Paper Book
Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games   At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her...
Carrie Soto Is Back: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Jenkins Reid, Taylor
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam" (Elle), from the author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The boys in the boat : an epic journey to the heart of Hitler's Berlin
Brown, Daniel
Paper Book
Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany--from the author of Facing the Mountain. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the...
Unseen academicals
Pratchett, Terry
Ebook
"Football, food, fashion and wizards collide in Pratchett's affectionate satire on the foibles of sports and sports fans. . . . The prose crackles with wit and charm, and the sendups of league football, academic posturing, Romeo and Juliet and cheesy sports dramas are razor sharp and hilarious...

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