Read-alikes and related books

Books like Marathon

Across Track & Field, Running & Jogging, Outdoor Skills, and Intermediate — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Marathon by John Foster.

Track & Field Running & Jogging Outdoor Skills Intermediate Readers Language Arts & Disciplines Sports & Recreation Juvenile Nonfiction Biography & Autobiography History

Top related books to Marathon

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – Athletics: Band 04/Blue

Andy Seed

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Intermediate

Breakthrough Women’s Running Dream Big and Train Smart

Neely Spence Gracey

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Outdoor Skills

Training for Obstacle Course Racing A Practical Guide for the Busy Athlete

Will Peveler

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Outdoor Skills

Parkrun An Organised Running Revolution

David Hindley

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Outdoor Skills

Swimming the Dream

Ellie Simmonds

Themes: Intermediate • Readers • Language Arts & Disciplines

Being Rooney

Alan Gibbons

Themes: Intermediate • Readers • Language Arts & Disciplines

Running, Thinking, Writing Embodied Cognition in Composition

Jackie Hoermann-Elliott

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Perfect Mile Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It

Neal Bascomb

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

Rita Liberti

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#10

Running the Smoke 26 First-Hand Accounts of Tackling the London Marathon

Michael McEwan

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#11

Triumph The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics

Jeremy Schaap

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#12

The Fastest Men on Earth The Story of the Men’s 100 Metres Olympic Champions

Neil Duncanson

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#13

Runners & Other Dreamers

John L. Parker, Jr.

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#14

The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner An Unfit Londoner’s Attempt to Run the New York Marathon

Russell Taylor

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#15

The Reason I Run How Two Men Transformed Tragedy Into the Greatest Race of Their Lives

Chris Spriggs

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#16

Out of Thin Air Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia: Winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022

Michael Crawley

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#17

Running to the Edge A Band of Misfits and the Guru who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed

Matthew Futterman

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#18

We Share the Sun The Incredible Journey of Kenya’s Legendary Running Coach Patrick Sang and the Fastest Runners on Earth

Sarah Gearhart

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#19

Going Up

Martin Waddell

Themes: Intermediate • Readers • Language Arts & Disciplines

#20

Football

David Orme

Themes: Intermediate • Readers • Language Arts & Disciplines

#21

I Got This: New and Expanded Edition To Gold and Beyond

Laurie Hernandez

Themes: Track & Field • Readers • Sports & Recreation

#22

Aim High

Tanni Grey-Thompson

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

#23

Running Toward Life Finding Community and Wisdom in the Distances We Run

John Trent

Themes: Running & Jogging • Outdoor Skills • Sports & Recreation

#24

Running with the Kenyans Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth

Adharanand Finn

Themes: Track & Field • Running & Jogging • Sports & Recreation

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Marathon by John Foster — spanning Track & Field, Running & Jogging, Outdoor Skills and featuring authors such as Andy Seed, Neely Spence Gracey, Will Peveler, David Hindley, and others.