📚 The Olympic Games

The festival of sport on which nations spend fortunes and settle arguments — its modern revival, its records, and its politics.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject olympic games in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Olympics (DK Eyewitness Books)	Chris Oxlade	1999	15
	You Wouldn't Want to Be a Greek Athlete	Michael Ford	2004	7
	Striking Back	Aaron J. Klein	2005	7
	The story of the Olympic games	John Kieran	1952	6
	The Nazi Olympics	Richard D. Mandell	1971	6
	[Four issues of Birmingham Olympic Newsletter and pamphlets published in connection with the Birmingham bid]	Olympic Games	1939	4
	Olympic cavalcade of sports	John V. Grombach	1956	4
	Something in the air	Richard Hoffer	2009	4
	Olympics	Richard Platt	2012	4
	Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice	Tommie Smith	2022	4
	Gymnastics	Lloyd Readhead	1996	3
	Olympic gold	Philippa Perry	1996	3
	The Olympics	Haydn Middleton	1999	3
	IOC Manual of Emergency Sports Medicine	David McDonagh	2015	3
	The Olympic Games book	Harold Maurice Abrahams	1956	2
	The story of the Olympic Games 776 B.C. to 1964	John Kieran	1965	2
	Vengeance	George Jonas	1984	2
	Running for fitness	Sebastian Coe	1984	2
	Britain and the Olympic Games	Don Anthony	1985	2
	Olympic retrospective	Olympic Games	1985	2
	Olympic revolution	David Miller	1992	2
	The Nazi Olympics	Susan D. Bachrach	2000	2
	Modern Olympics	Chris Oxlade	2003	2
	Che sipkuhoe Ollimpʻik taehoe chʻamga pogosŏ	Taehan Ollimpʻik Wiwŏnhoe	1968	1
	The Amateurs/the Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal	David Halberstam	1985	1
	History of the Olympic Games	Constantine L. Sirracos	2000	1
	The 100 greatest moments at the Olympics	Mark Crossland	2000	1
	Going for the Gold (On the Job (Philadelphia, Pa.).)	Michele Lyons	2003	1
	Inside the Olympics	Nick Hunter	2012	1
	The First Olympics of ancient Greece	Lisa M. B. Simons	2015	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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