18 Top nonfiction books like Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia

Cover of Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia

Nowhere for Very Long

By: Brianna Madia

4.11

Format: 304 pages, ebook

In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an…

"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."

-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery

By: Steph Jagger

2.75

Format: None pages, ebook

A young woman follows winter across five continents on a physical and spiritual journey that tests … read more

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2. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Cheryl Strayed

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, h… read more

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Cover of Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

3. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Cover of Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton

4. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

By: Conor Knighton

4.26

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more

Similar categories in Conor Knighton's Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

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5. Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map

By: Rick Ridgeway

4.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild At the beginning of his memoir Life Liv… read more

Similar categories in Rick Ridgeway's Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail by Heather Anish Anderson

6. Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail

By: Heather Anish Anderson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail i… read more

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins

7. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycle… read more

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning. I…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I was in the zone, each day biking farther than the last, and becoming ever more accustomed to my solitude. An entire day passed without me speaking to a single human. I did speak though, just to the…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

Cover of Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia

8. Nowhere for Very Long

By: Brianna Madia

4.11

Format: 304 pages, ebook

In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • dogs
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."

-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long

Cover of Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

9. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

By: Suleika Jaouad

4.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from … read more

Similar categories in Suleika Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To learn to swim in the ocean of not-knowing- this is my constant work."

-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

"It's a funny thing, coming home. Everything smells the same, looks the same, feels the same, but you are different; the contrast between who you were when you left and who you are now is heightened a…"

-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

"If you need to reach me, or send me anything I'll hopefully have access to email, but who knows how alert I'll be...Please don't ask too many questions about what the logistics look like, or where an…"

-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Cover of The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert

10. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

By: Caroline Van Hemert

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Van Hemert's The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"

-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"

-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

11. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences by Jedidiah Jenkins

12. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

4.03

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

Cover of Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson

13. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

By: Heather Anish Anderson

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appal… read more

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"At least now I knew that my heart was wedded to the mountains--to the wild places. It was there, and there alone, that I was whole, contented, and blissful. No relationship, career, or wealth could e…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer." I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. "I can adapt. I am adapting." Another long day was done…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I want to set a record. Not just any record, but an athletic record. One that everyone will know me for. One that my dad will be proud of. I don't know what it will be, but I will do it. I have a lot…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I'd failed to live up to the expectations of my parents. I had not utilized my education in any real way and I'd given up on my marriage. For the first time, I accepted that I could not meet the expe…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

Cover of Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime by Ben Moon

14. Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime

By: Ben Moon

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The story of a dog, his human, and the friendship that saved both of their lives. When Ben Moon … read more

Similar categories in Ben Moon's Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • dogs
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"When you lose your canine soul mate, you not only lose the dog that has been your companion and friend through so much, but also have to let gio off that chapter of your life, and who you were then. …"

-Ben Moon, Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime

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15. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

By: Pam Houston

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it m… read more

Similar categories in Pam Houston's Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"I pause over the words "Wilderness Ranch Subdivision." What the fuck, I wonder, what in the fuck is wrong with us anyway."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it’s as ubiquitous as oxygen."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"And even if the jig is up, even if it is really game over, what better time to sing about the earth than when it is critically, even fatally, wounded at our hands."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Cover of Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains by Steph Jagger

16. Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains

By: Steph Jagger

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild . In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in Steph Jagger's Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

17. Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

By: Barney Scout Mann

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North , legendary tr… read more

Similar categories in Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are by Jedidiah Jenkins

18. Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A moving meditation on the hidden, sometimes difficult topics we must consider to live an authentic… read more

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I WAS ASKED recently, “Who is your best friend?"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

"Being labeled is claustrophobic. It locks you into connotations."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

"It takes a safe and wide love to teach a man that it's possible to fail and remain."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

"As I get older and listen to my life, the truest things seem to live in paradoxical tension. Hope holding hands with understanding. Expectation dancing with the hard lessons of humility. The human he…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

Cover of Instructions for Traveling West: Poems by Joy Sullivan

19. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

Similar categories in Joy Sullivan's Instructions for Traveling West: Poems book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of You Carry the Tent, I'll Carry the Baby: One Family's Journey on the Pacific Crest Trail by Jack  McClure

20. You Carry the Tent, I'll Carry the Baby: One Family's Journey on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Jack McClure

4.00

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the birth of their daughter, Jack McClure and his wife Alana had every intention of conti… read more

Similar categories in Jack McClure's You Carry the Tent, I'll Carry the Baby: One Family's Journey on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long

  • nonfiction
Cover of Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail by Andrea Lani

21. Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail

By: Andrea Lani

4.00

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Reading the West Longlist for Memoir/Biography One grouchy husband. Three reluctant kids. Five hun… read more

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17 Top audiobook books like Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

Conor Knighton

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map

Rick Ridgeway

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail

Heather Anish Anderson

4.10

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13 Top outdoors books like Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

Transform Your Habits

Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Hikertrash: Life on the Pacific Crest Trail

Erin Miller

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

Suzanne Roberts

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

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