9 Best sports books like Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell

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

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…

If you liked the sports plot in Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of My Time by William Fotheringham, Bradley Wiggins

1. My Time

By: William Fotheringham , Bradley Wiggins

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On 22 July 2012 Bradley Wiggins became the first British man ever to win the Tour de France. In an … read more

Similar categories in William Fotheringham's My Time book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy

2. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

By: Dervla Murphy

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on her daily diary, this is Dervla Murphy's account of her ride, in 1963, across frozen Europ… read more

Similar categories in Dervla Murphy's Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • cycling

3. It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

By: Robert Penn

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,… read more

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4. The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

By: Daniel Coyle , Tyler Hamilton

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe Secret Racei… read more

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5. The Rider

By: Sam Garrett , Tim Krabbé

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in the Netherlands in… read more

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6. Ask a Pro: Everything You Should Be Scared to Know about Pro Cycling

By: Phil Gaimon

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

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7. Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro

By: Phil Gaimon

3.96

Format: None pages,

Plump, grumpy, slumped on the couch, and going nowhere fast at age 16, Phil Gaimon began riding a b… read more

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8. This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself

By: Juliana Buhring

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Juliana Buhring had been mired in a dark hole of depression after the death of a man she loved, and… read more

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

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

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"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 Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was by Daniel Friebe

10. Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was

By: Daniel Friebe

4.31

Format: 610 pages, Kindle Edition

Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most natu… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Friebe's Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
Cover of The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey by Geraint Thomas

11. The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey

By: Geraint Thomas

4.20

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike… read more

Similar categories in Geraint Thomas's The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life by Jenny Tough

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

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

13. 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

Similar categories in Jenny Graham's Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell

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

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of On Connection by Kae Tempest

15. On Connection

By: Kae Tempest

4.17

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

From the Ted Hughes award winner and Sunday TImes bestselling authour Kae Tempest. The increasin… read more

Similar categories in Kae Tempest's On Connection book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"When I am numb, how can I make myself connected? I can't. But I can try to create an environment that is welcoming for connection if it should turn up."

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

"Words on a page are incomplete. The poem, the novel or the non-fiction pamphlet are finished when they are taken up and engaged with. Connection is collaborative. For words to have meaning, they have…"

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

"We are empathic beings who feel for each other. Our very success as a species is rooted in our ability to be aware of each other's needs, to notice each other's pain and to experience deeply felt phy…"

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

"The work that I do on myself may not be evident in my daily exchanges, but little by little, if I continue, I hope that my actions will reflect my changing mindset, and next time, I promise myself, I…"

-Kae Tempest, On Connection

Cover of Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone by Nimsdai Purja

16. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

By: Nimsdai Purja

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781529312249. In Beyond Possible Nimsdai Purja tells the story … read more

Similar categories in Nimsdai Purja's Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling by Alex Dowsett

17. Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling

By: Alex Dowsett

4.55

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 – CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR'Immensely readable and revea… read more

Similar categories in Alex Dowsett's Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • cycling
Cover of Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination by Jenny Tough

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

Similar categories in Jenny Tough's Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • 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

Cover of Endless Perfect Circles: Lessons from the little-known world of ultradistance cycling by Ian Walker

19. Endless Perfect Circles: Lessons from the little-known world of ultradistance cycling

By: Ian Walker

4.53

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

A professional psychologist spent his entire life believing he had no ability or interest in sport.… read more

Similar categories in Ian Walker's Endless Perfect Circles: Lessons from the little-known world of ultradistance cycling book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of Other Ways to Win: A competitive cyclist's reflections on success by Lee Craigie

20. Other Ways to Win: A competitive cyclist's reflections on success

By: Lee Craigie

4.57

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

'I rode back down the hill to the athlete's village. Some of Team Scotland had been watching on the… read more

Similar categories in Lee Craigie's Other Ways to Win: A competitive cyclist's reflections on success book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • nonfiction
Cover of Sticky Bottle: The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby by Carlton Kirby

21. Sticky Bottle: The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby

By: Carlton Kirby

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'Entertaining, quirky and an enjoyable read' – Phil Liggett MBE 'A genuine one-off with a ready wi… read more

Similar categories in Carlton Kirby's Sticky Bottle: The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby book and Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

  • nonfiction
  • cycling

6 best-selling adventure books like Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell

Transform Your Habits

Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Dervla Murphy

4.40

Transform Your Habits

SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

Jenny Tough

4.27

Transform Your Habits

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

Jenny Graham

4.56

Transform Your Habits

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

Emily Chappell

4.37

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14 best-selling adventure books like Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination 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

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

Transform Your Habits

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

Christian Lewis

4.40

Transform Your Habits

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

Elise Downing

4.03

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