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Best Novels Christmas 2024 Olympics. We’ve compiled a list of the 45 best books to cozy up with this christmas 2023. Here philip barker, olympic historian and sports journalist, chooses five books that help you to understand the games, their origins and their traditions—and to relive the sporting drama of.

Whether you are an athlete, a sports enthusiast, or simply someone who enjoys reading, there are a plethora of books on the olympics that can offer you. So we asked around the newsroom to find our staffers’ favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024.