15 Best biography memoir books like Bravey by Alexi Pappas

Cover of Bravey by Alexi Pappas

Bravey

By: Alexi Pappas

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

"Renaissance runner" (New York Times) Alexi Pappas--Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker and writer-…

"Headed to the moon not now but soon."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"Headed to the moon not now but soon."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Bravey by Alexi Pappas , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports by Kathrine Switzer

1. Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

By: Kathrine Switzer

4.21

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Katherine Switzer ran the Boston Marathon in 1967 where she was attacked by one of the event's dire… read more

Similar categories in Kathrine Switzer's Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!"

-Kathrine Switzer, Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

Cover of How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle by Matt Fitzgerald

2. How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

By: Matt Fitzgerald

4.10

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have know… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • self help
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

Cover of What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan

3. What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

By: Kate Fagan

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

*InstantNew York TimesBestseller* The #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness bestseller From … read more

Similar categories in Kate Fagan's What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • adult
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life by Selene Yeager, Stacy T. Sims

4. ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life

By: Selene Yeager , Stacy T. Sims

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Women are not small men. Stop eating and training like one. Because most nutrition products and tra… read more

Similar categories in Selene Yeager's ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • self help

5. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more

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Cover of North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail by Scott Jurek

6. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

By: Scott Jurek

4.22

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run , a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating… read more

Similar categories in Scott Jurek's North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"It was just numbers. I knew I could outrun numbers."

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

"AT legend has it that Pennsylvania hiking clubs and trail crews are proud of their state's nickname of Rocksylvania and don't remove rocks from the trail. In fact, some people claim they actually dum…"

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

Cover of Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself by Rich Roll

7. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

By: Rich Roll

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Finding Ultra is an incredible but true a… read more

Similar categories in Rich Roll's Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"I loved the pain, and the pain loved me back."

-Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Cover of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex  Hutchinson

8. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

By: Alex Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more

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  • self help
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything by Sally McRae

9. Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything

By: Sally McRae

4.48

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

A REAL LOOK AT STRENGTH Known worldwide for her mental fortitude, hardcore training tactics, and… read more

Similar categories in Sally McRae's Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception by Matt   Hart

10. Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception

By: Matt Hart

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Game of Shadows meets Shoe Dog in this explosive behind-the-scenes look that reveals for the first … read more

Similar categories in Matt Hart's Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career by Meb Keflezighi

11. 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

By: Meb Keflezighi

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in … read more

Similar categories in Meb Keflezighi's 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"To my classmates, teammates, teachers, coaches, and friends, and the people in the medical field who encouraged and challenged me to be my best in every aspect of life."

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

"Un mod prin care maratonul se deosebește de alte curse îl reprezintă faptul că lecțiile lui au deseori paralele cu restul vieții tale. Răbdarea necesară ca să stăpânești maratonul este o abilitate tr…"

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

Cover of Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman

12. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

By: Lauren Fleshman

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Fleshman's Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected."

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attac…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consist…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the s…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Cover of Bravey by Alexi Pappas

13. Bravey

By: Alexi Pappas

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

"Renaissance runner" (New York Times) Alexi Pappas--Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker and writer-… read more

Similar categories in Alexi Pappas's Bravey book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adult
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Headed to the moon not now but soon."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A life can’t be replicated and it doesn’t need to be."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A dream come true unfolds very very gradually then all at once."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

Cover of The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team by Kara Goucher

14. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more

Similar categories in Kara Goucher's The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adult
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden

15. Choosing to Run: A Memoir

By: Des Linden

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adult
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step by Ryan Hall

16. Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

By: Ryan Hall

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Journey with Olympian and American half marathon record holder Ryan Hall as he reflects on the joys… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age by Matt Fitzgerald

17. Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age

By: Matt Fitzgerald

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Matt Fitzgerald has already made a name for himself in the endurance sport community with books lik… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Reborn on the Run: My Journey from Addiction to Ultramarathons by Catra Corbett

18. Reborn on the Run: My Journey from Addiction to Ultramarathons

By: Catra Corbett

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"This is a story you’ll love and never forget."—Christopher McDougall, author, Born to Run and Natu… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us by Alison Mariella Désir

19. Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us

By: Alison Mariella Désir

4.58

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimag… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adult
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds by Hillary Allen

20. Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

By: Hillary Allen

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 2017, world-class ultrarunner Hillary Allen was at the top of her sport--and it felt like she wa… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"You are more than a result. You are enough, just as you are."

-Hillary Allen, Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

"This determination is my bushido. It’s my “way of the warrior."

-Hillary Allen, Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

"One thing that frees me from that battlefield is knowing that my strength and athletic build helped save my life."

-Hillary Allen, Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

"Have you ever thought about accepting yourself as you are right here and now? That you are good enough—perfect in fact—just as you are?"

-Hillary Allen, Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

Cover of How She Did It: A High-Performance Guide for Female Distance Runners with Stories from the Women Who've Made It by Molly Huddle

21. How She Did It: A High-Performance Guide for Female Distance Runners with Stories from the Women Who've Made It

By: Molly Huddle

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An essential guide for female athletes navigating the world of competitive running, featuring 50 ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory by Deena Kastor

22. Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

By: Deena Kastor

4.36

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a … read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"You can't show love by hurting others"

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"What I needed in the moment was a family vacation."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"I saw perseverance, determination, and fearlessness."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"You don't run with your feet- you run with your heart."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

Cover of Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes by Christine Yu

23. Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

By: Christine Yu

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“ Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and dis… read more

Similar categories in Christine Yu's Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • self help
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans

24. Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

By: Martinus Evans

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from … read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You by Kara Goucher

25. Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You

By: Kara Goucher

3.93

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

In Strong: A Confidence Journal For Runners and All Brave Women, Kara teaches you how to improve y… read more

Similar categories in Kara Goucher's Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"So much of performance is about staying in the now. Active words like “focus"

-Kara Goucher, Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You

"What would happen if we took the time each day to quietly celebrate our accomplishments and focus on the positive?"

-Kara Goucher, Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You

"Running is a head game. When you’re running, there are two options: let your mind wander or focus. To compete, you must focus."

-Kara Goucher, Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You

"Focus on effort. I never know what’s changing around me. Opportunities can open up when we least expect them. Stay focused on goals."

-Kara Goucher, Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You

Cover of Running Home by Katie Arnold

26. Running Home

By: Katie Arnold

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, an Outside magazine writer tells her story—of fathers a… read more

Similar categories in Katie Arnold's Running Home book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything All at Once by Stephanie Catudal

27. Everything All at Once

By: Stephanie Catudal

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  Bestseller  An intimate and evocative memoir one woman’s experience with the univer… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Catudal's Everything All at Once book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith by Sydney McLaughlin

28. Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith

By: Sydney McLaughlin

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What fears are standing in your way or holding you back? How do you want to become stronger? Olympi… read more

Similar categories in Sydney McLaughlin's Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail by Emily Halnon

29. To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Emily Halnon

4.59

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A riveting narrative of love and loss, grief and joy, as one woman embarks on a quest for a record … read more

Similar categories in Emily Halnon's To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Alexi Pappas's Bravey

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance by Matt Fitzgerald

30. Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

By: Matt Fitzgerald

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attemp… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women by Maggie Mertens

31. Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

By: Maggie Mertens

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning sports journalist Maggie Mertens tells the propulsive, edge-of-your-seat story of how… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

6 must-read adult books like Bravey by Alexi Pappas

Transform Your Habits

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

Kate Fagan

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Bravey

Alexi Pappas

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

Kara Goucher

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Choosing to Run: A Memoir

Des Linden

4.28

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19 Best audiobook books like Everything All at Once by Stephanie Catudal

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything

Sally McRae

4.48

Transform Your Habits

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maggie Smith

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Lauren Fleshman

4.47

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