Sometimes a thread on the Masters Rowing International Facebook group goes ballistic.  This happened recently when Shannon Borum asked for book suggestions.

Looking for book suggestions (fiction and non fiction) about rowing.

At the time of writing 152 comments had led to a list which is very long indeed.

I listed most of the books below – but I don’t warrant any typos or missing author names…. this list is still growing.

Please buy from Rowing Stores if possible. (Row2k has a good range).

• Assault on Lake Casitas – Brad Alan Lewis
• Red Rose Crew – Daniel J Boyne
• Boys in the Boat – Daniel Brown
• The Shell Game – Stephen Kiesling
• Rudern – The East German text of oarsmanship
• Blood over Water – James and David Livingston
• When Crickets Cry – Charles Martin
• The Amateurs – David Halberstam
• A Golden Age – Steve Redgrave
• A Lifetime in a Race – Matthew Pinsent
• My Autobiography – Katherine Grainger
• Gold Medal Flapjack: Silver Medal Life – Alison Mowbray
• Flat Water Tuesday – Ron Irwin
• Wanted: Rowing Coach – Brad Alan Lewis
• On The Water – H M van den Brink
• Navigating Early – Clare Vanderpool
• Rowing Through the Barbed Wire Fence – Rima Karaliene
• Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX – Ginny Gilder
• The Sculler at Ease – Frank Cunningham
• Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life and the Art of Rowing – Craig Lambert
• Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome
• Water Under The Bridge – Simon Murch
• Something In The Water (about the Skibbereen Rowing Club) – Kieran McCarthy
• The Complete Book of Rowing – Steve Redgrave
• A Text book of Oarsmanship – Gilbert C Bourne
• Periodisation – Tudor Bompa
• Drawn to the Rhythm – Sara Hall
• Suga Water – Arshay Cooper
• The Baltimore Blues – Laura Lippman
• Ready All! – George Yeoman Pocock and Crew Racing
• Boathouse Row; Waves of change in the birthplace of American Rowing – Dotty Brown
• The Story of World Rowing – Chris Dodd
• Kelly, a Father, a Son, an American quest – Daniel J Boyne
• Rowing For My Life: Two oceans, Two lives, One Journey – Kathleen Saville
• Let’s Take The Long Way Home; a memoir of friendship – Gail Caldwell
• The Way of a Man with a Blade – Hugh Robert Arthur Edwards
• Disappointment River : Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage – Brian Castner
• True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by Daniel Topolski
• The Legendary Casey Brothers – Jim Casey and Jim Hudson
• Training for the Complete Rower: A Guide to Improving Performance – Paul Thompson & Alex Wolf
• The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Revenge and Redemption – Daniel J Boyne
• The Kiwi Pair – Hamish Bond and Eric Murray
• Will it Make the Boat Go Faster? – Ben Hunt-Davis
• Four Men in a Boat: The Inside Story of the Sydney 2000 Coxless Four -Tim Foster & Rory Ross
• Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge – Jill Fredston
• The Men of Kent: 10 Boys, A Fast Boat and The Coach Who Made Them Champions – Rick Rinehart
• Once a Runner – John L Parker Jr
• Pulling Through – the story of the Kings Cup – Bruce Coe
• The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed From The Great War To Peace  – Scott Patterson

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