Light the Torch: The Olympics in Fiction

Have you ever wondered, as you watch the Olympics, what the Olympic Games are really like? The Olympic Games and the athletes that compete have inspired these authors. Many of these fictional books are inspired by stories and individuals that have competed in the modern Olympic Games!

Check out these titles!

  • Fast girls : a novel of the 1936 women's Olympic team by Elise Hooper
  • Let the games begun by Rufaro Faith Mazarura
  • The one that got away by Bethany Chase
  • Head over heels by Hanna Orenstein
  • The Graham effect by Elle Kennedy
  • Home or away by Kathleen West
  • We came here to forget by Andrea Dunlop
  • The horsewoman by James Patterson and Mike Lupica
  • Four weddings and a puppy by Lizzie Shane
  • The happiest girl in the world by Alena Dillon
  • Gold by Chris Cleave
  • That Summer in Berlin by Lecia Cornwall
  • The Games by James Patterson and Mark T. Sullivan
  • London tides by Carla Laureano and Sarah Mason Rische
  • Hearth stone by Lois Greiman

These titles are in the Quincy Public Library's catalog!


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