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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Coming up for air /
Daley, Tom, 1994-
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...
Carrie Soto is back. [large print]
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
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 : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936
Brown, Daniel, 1951-
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 acadmicals.
Pratchett, Terry
Paper Book
"Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic,...
Western Lane.
Maroo, Chetna
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. "Few novelists write this simply and richly....

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