19 must-read audiobook books like SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life by Jenny Tough

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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…

If you liked the audiobook plot in SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life by Jenny Tough , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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

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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Similar categories in Anna McNuff's The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Running Man

By: Charlie Engle

3.70

Format: 640 pages, ebook

Charlie Engle's "fascinating account of the high and low points of his life as an ultramarathon run… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook

3. Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth

By: Adharanand Finn

2.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A dusty road stretches into the distance like a pencil line across the arid landscape. Lions, rhin… read more

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4. Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession

By: Richard Askwith

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Exploring the world of fell-running--to run the ancient, wild landscape and stay a hero within one'… read more

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5. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • 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

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6. The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance

By: Adharanand Finn

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying look inside the wild world of extreme distance running. Once the reserve of only… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything by Sally McRae

7. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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

9. 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

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman

10. 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

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

11. 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

Similar categories in Elise Downing's Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Where There's a Hill: One woman, 214 Lake District fells, four attempts, one record-breaking Wainwrights run by Sabrina Verjee

12. Where There's a Hill: One woman, 214 Lake District fells, four attempts, one record-breaking Wainwrights run

By: Sabrina Verjee

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Sabrina Verjee is an ultrarunning phenomenon. In June 2021, on her fourth attempt, she became the f… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Verjee's Where There's a Hill: One woman, 214 Lake District fells, four attempts, one record-breaking Wainwrights run book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • nonfiction
Cover of Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3) by Anna McNuff

13. 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

Similar categories in Anna McNuff's Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3) book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds by Hillary Allen

14. 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

Similar categories in Hillary Allen's Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • 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 SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life by Jenny Tough

15. 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

Similar categories in Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Unchained: One Woman, One Bike, One Dream... One World by Rubina Soorty

16. Unchained: One Woman, One Bike, One Dream... One World

By: Rubina Soorty

4.38

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes the shortest way across the street involves going around the world. Ruby has never cycled… read more

Similar categories in Rubina Soorty's Unchained: One Woman, One Bike, One Dream... One World book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • travel
  • adventure
Cover of Running The World: 196 marathons in 196 countries, one record-breaking adventure by Nick Butter

17. Running The World: 196 marathons in 196 countries, one record-breaking adventure

By: Nick Butter

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'Superb - a great book to fuel your wanderlust.' Mark Beaumont--- In 2019, Nick Butter became the f… read more

Similar categories in Nick Butter's Running The World: 196 marathons in 196 countries, one record-breaking adventure book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

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

18. 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
Cover of Barefoot Britain: A running adventure like no other by Anna McNuff

19. 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
Cover of Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell

20. Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

By: Emily Chappell

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Emily Chappell's story of transformation into a cross-continental bike racer, pushing the limits of… read more

Similar categories in Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Training Essentials for Ultrarunning: How to Train Smarter, Race Faster, and Maximize Your Ultramarathon Performance by Jason Koop

21. Training Essentials for Ultrarunning: How to Train Smarter, Race Faster, and Maximize Your Ultramarathon Performance

By: Jason Koop

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When elite ultrarunners have a need for speed, they turn to coach Jason Koop. Now the sport’s leadi… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Runner's High: How to Squeeze the Joy From Every Step by Jenni Falconer

22. Runner's High: How to Squeeze the Joy From Every Step

By: Jenni Falconer

3.69

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Take your runner's high to new heights with tips and advice from radio presenter and host of RunPod… read more

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Cover of There is No Wall by Allie Bailey

23. 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
Cover of The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken          Smith

24. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups by Anna McNuff

25. 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

Cover of 50 Shades of the USA: One woman's 11,000 mile cycling adventure through every state of America by Anna McNuff

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 To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail by Emily Halnon

27. 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

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors: A Past, Present and Personal Story by Rachel Hewitt

28. In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors: A Past, Present and Personal Story

By: Rachel Hewitt

4.06

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

When Rachel loses five family members in five months, grief magnifies other absences. Long-distance… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman

29. 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 Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women by Louise Minchin

30. Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women

By: Louise Minchin

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

'Incredibly moving and inspiring' Gabby Logan ‘Prepare to be blown away… the most incredible examp… read more

Similar categories in Louise Minchin's Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women book and Jenny Tough's SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Farthest Shore: Seeking solitude and nature on the Cape Wrath Trail in winter by Alex Roddie

31. The Farthest Shore: Seeking solitude and nature on the Cape Wrath Trail in winter

By: Alex Roddie

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In February 2019, award-winning writer Alex Roddie left his online life behind when he set out to w… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure

17 must-read adventure books like SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life by Jenny Tough

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

North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

Scott Jurek

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance

Adharanand Finn

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

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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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