📚 Marathon Running

Books with marathon running on their catalogue record, first published between 1981 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject marathon running in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 704 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	Born to Run	Christopher McDougall	2009	28
	走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること	村上春樹	2006	19
	50/50	Dean Karnazes	2008	12
	Ultramarathon Man	Dean Karnazes	2005	11
	Can't Hurt Me	David Goggins	2018	11
	Marathon	Hal Higdon	1993	10
	Running Crazy	Helen Summer	2012	7
	Two Hours	Ed Caesar	2015	7
	A cross-cultural analysis of achievement motivation in Anglo American and Japanese marathon runners	Carl Teruo Hayashi	1991	6
	Marathon Woman	Kathrine Switzer	2007	6
	The marathon	Marc Bloom	1981	5
	Slow burn	Stu Mittleman	2001	5
	Run To Overcome The Inspiring Story Of An American Champions Longdistance Quest To Achieve A Big Dream	Joan Benoit Samuelson	2010	5
	Running A Marathon For Dummies	Jason Karp	2012	5
	Boston Marathon	Tom Derderian	2014	5
	The marathon book	Neil Wilson	1982	4
	Everyone's Guide to Distance Running	Norrie Williamson	1993	4
	The Marathon and Half Marathon	Graeme Hilditch	2007	4
	Keep on Running	Phil Hewitt	2012	4
	Marathon Man	Rob Young	2016	4
	How to run your first marathon	Ardy Friedberg	1982	3
	Train Hard, Win Easy	Toby Tanser	1997	3
	Marathon training	Joe Henderson	1997	3
	The runner's training diary	Bob Glover	1997	3
	Alberto Salazar's guide to road racing	Alberto Salazar	2002	3
	26.2	Kathrine Switzer	2006	3
	Marathon-Training Für Dummies	Tere Stouffer Drenth	2007	3
	Run Your First Marathon	Grete Waitz	2010	3
	Running Like a Girl	Alexandra Heminsley	2013	3
	Anatomy, stretching & training for marathoners	Philip Striano	2013	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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