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Omaha Reading Challenge 2022: Read a Book About Sports

OPL librarians have created a series of reading challenges to help you stretch beyond your comfort zone. This list features titles suggested for you to complete the "Read a book about sports" challenge. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

35 items

  • Chess; highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook and mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    Book©1983. — FICTION Tevis 1983
  • Amateur

    a True Story About What Makes a Man

    McBee, Thomas Page,
    Boxing; highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2018. — B McBee 2018
  • Field hockey; highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook and mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, [2020] — FICTION Barry 2020
  • Dream Like a Champion

    Wins, Losses, and Leadership the Nebraska Volleyball Way

    Cook, John, 1956-
    Husker volleyball - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017] — 796.325 Vogel 2017
  • If These Walls Could Talk

    Nebraska Cornhuskers : Stories From the Nebraska Cornhuskers Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box

    Murtaugh, Jerry,
    Husker football - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookChicago, Illinois : Triumph Books, [2015] — 796.332 Murtaugh 2015
  • The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central

    High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide

    Marantz, Steve
    Basketball - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011. — 796.323 Marantz 2011
  • Rosenblatt Stadium

    Essays and Memories of Omaha's Historic Ballpark, 1948-2012

    Baseball - - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookJefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2020. — 796 Rosenbla 2020
  • Women on Waves

    a Cultural History of Surfing : From Ancient Goddesses and Hawaiian Queens to Malibu Movie Stars and Millennial Champions

    Kempton, Jim,
    Surfing - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Pegasus Books, 2021. — 797.3 Kempton 2021
  • On the Origins of Sports

    the Early History and Original Rules of Everybody's Favorite Games

    Belsky, Gary
    Multiple sports/games - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Artisan, [2016] — 796 Belsky 2016
  • The Impossible Mile

    the Power of Living Life One Step at a Time

    Agar, Johnny,
    Long-distance racing - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNashville, Tennessee : Dexterity, LLC, [2021] — B Agar 2021
  • Proud

    Living My American Dream

    Muhammad, Ibtihaj, 1985-
    Fencing - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — B Muhammad 2018
  • Basketball - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York, NY : Atria Books, 2021. — B Pippen 2021
  • Eight World Cups

    My Journey Through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer

    Vecsey, George
    Soccer - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014. — 796.334 Vecsey 2014
  • Football - Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookCambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015] — 796.332 Bissinger 2015
  • Baseball
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — FICTION Nemens 2020
  • Gymnastics
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — FICTION Dillon 2021
  • 99

    Stories of the Game

    Gretzky, Wayne, 1961-
    Hockey
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016. — B Gretzky 2016