8 best-selling autobiography books like Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing

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Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

By: Elise Downing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w…

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1. The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand

By: Anna McNuff

3.69

Format: 216 pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Around India in 80 Trains

By: Monisha Rajesh

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1991, Monisha's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home.… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. Your Pace or Mine?: What Running Taught Me About Life, Laughter and Coming Last

By: Lisa Jackson

4.14

Format: 152 pages,

From the co-author of the best-selling 'Running Made Easy', with a foreword by running legend Kathr… read more

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4. Don't Stop Me Now: 26.2 Tales of a Runner's Obsession

By: None , Vassos Alexander

4.57

Format: 102 pages,

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5. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
  • audiobook
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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6. The Salt Path

By: Raynor Winn

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
  • audiobook
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

Cover of Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness by Christian Lewis

7. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
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8. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

By: Elise Downing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • sports
  • nature
  • audiobook
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9. The Wild Silence

By: Raynor Winn

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
  • audiobook
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

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10. Beyond Impossible: From Reluctant Runner to Guinness World Record Breaker

By: Mimi Anderson

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

When Mimi first started jogging on a treadmill as an unfit 36-year-old mother-of-three, she never i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • audiobook
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11. Limitless: An Ultrarunner’s Story of Pain, Perseverance and the Pursuit of Success

By: Mimi Anderson

3.77

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits At the age of 55, record-breaking ultrarunner… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3)

By: Anna McNuff

4.46

Format: 574 pages, Kindle Edition

Why take the shortest, most direct route through life, when you could choose the wiggliest, most mo… read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life by Jenny Tough

13. SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

By: Jenny Tough

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of a six-continent journey of self-discovery Jenny Tough is an endurance athl… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet by Jenny Graham

14. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet

By: Jenny Graham

4.56

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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15. Barefoot Britain: A running adventure like no other

By: Anna McNuff

4.62

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Step into an adventure that set the country alight. Anna McNuff had never run a mile without shoes … read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. How to Run a Marathon: The Go-to Guide for Anyone and Everyone

By: Vassos Alexander

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ever been tempted to try a marathon? Maybe you’ve just started running, perhaps you’re gaining conf… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 26.2 Miles to Happiness: A Comedian’s Tale of Running, Red Wine and Redemption

By: Paul Tonkinson

4.25

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2021 – SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR The hilari… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination

By: Jenny Tough

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

It s time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"I have always felt that adventures are about connection and daring, albeit my traditional view was that it was a solitary quest and one where fears were stuffed down to be tamed alone. I would say th…"

-Jenny Tough, Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination

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19. There is No Wall

By: Allie Bailey

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

There Is No Wall is ultrarunner Allie Bailey's brutally honest and sometimes shocking account of al… read more

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  • audiobook
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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20. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.23

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

By: Catrina Davies

4.23

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."

-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."

-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

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22. Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups

By: Anna McNuff

4.40

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wanted to kayak down a gorge in New Zealand? Or run night-time marathons through the … read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In a bid to keep my sanity, I shifted my focus from the things I couldn’t control to those that I could."

-Anna McNuff, Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups

"Taking photos, doing our best to record the experience, but all the while knowing we couldn’t possibly capture this, not through a camera lens anyway. It was a landscape that only the richness of mem…"

-Anna McNuff, Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups

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23. In It for the Long Run: Breaking records and getting FKT

By: Damian Hall

4.23

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

In It for the Long Run is ultrarunner Damian Hall ’s story of running a first marathon aged thirty-… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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24. A Walk from the Wild Edge

By: Jake Tyler

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his l… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I pointed to a main road that, unbeknownst to us, had been running parallel to the valley the entire time. We were now at a place called ‘Whiteway’s Lodge’, next to a big roundabout that connects the…"

-Jake Tyler, A Walk from the Wild Edge

Cover of Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors by Gail Muller

25. Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors

By: Gail Muller

4.08

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Gail Muller was told she’d be in a wheelchair by the age of forty. At forty-one she set out to hike… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
  • audiobook
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26. 50 Shades of the USA: One woman's 11,000 mile cycling adventure through every state of America

By: Anna McNuff

4.52

Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition

"Just then, a train of thought rumbled into motion and a soft voice asked me a question. It was alm… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi

27. I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain

By: Anita Sethi

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One woman's journey of reclamation through natural landscapes as she contemplates identity and woma… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • walking
  • nature
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28. Failure is an Option

By: Matt Whyman

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘We’re not at parkrun any more,’ I mutter to myself, quietly longing for the presence of nice marsh… read more

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Cover of The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope by Jen Benson

29. The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

By: Jen Benson

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This book tells the uplifting true story of a family who left their old life behind to spend a year… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure by Siobhan Daniels

30. Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure

By: Siobhan Daniels

3.72

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Approaching retirement and frustrated with her job, Siobhan Daniels made a BIG to start living lif… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Adventure Revolution

By: Belinda Kirk

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

For the past twenty-five years, Belinda Kirk's professional life has revolved around adventure. She… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • adventure

21 best-selling audiobook books like Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing

Transform Your Habits

The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand

Anna McNuff

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

Elise Downing

4.03

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8 Top audiobook books like Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups by Anna McNuff

Transform Your Habits

Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

Elise Downing

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Holiday SOS: The life-saving adventures of a travelling doctor

Ben MacFarlane

4.48

Transform Your Habits

SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

Jenny Tough

4.27

Transform Your Habits

There is No Wall

Allie Bailey

4.39

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