12 Best memoir books like Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone by Peter Conti

Cover of Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone by Peter  Conti

Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

By: Peter Conti

4.34

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

What if you could experience the thrill of an epic voyage through insurmountable obstacles without …

If you liked the memoir plot in Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone by Peter Conti , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Carrot Quinn

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

By: Carrot Quinn

4.10

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and sh… read more

Similar categories in Carrot Quinn's Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
"I’ve spent every waking moment nurturing and maintaining my relationship with this eighteen-inch by 2660-mile ribbon of dirt."

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

"I’ve been eating this shit for so long that I’ve transcended the need to actually enjoy my food. No more desires. Eat to live, not live to eat."

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

2. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

By: David Miller

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A 41-year-old engineer quits his job to hike the Appalachian Trail. This is a true account of his h… read more

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Cover of Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West by Marty Ohlhaut

3. Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

By: Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Riveting true story about the power of family and the majesty of the wilderness Marty Ohlhaut lo… read more

Similar categories in Marty Ohlhaut's Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
"Had I known just how memorable our trip was about to be, we never would have left the house."

-Marty Ohlhaut, Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

"It was that melancholy time of afternoon, when spirits seem suspended between the day’s activities and the night’s reminiscence."

-Marty Ohlhaut, Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Cover of Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life by Ryan Benz

4. Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life

By: Ryan Benz

4.51

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

2024 READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2023 ROYAL DRAGONFLY BOOK AWARD WINNER B.R… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Benz's Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Stepping out of your comfort zone is far greater than the comfort itself."

-Ryan Benz, Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life

"It’s only when we slow down that we notice all the beauty surrounding us."

-Ryan Benz, Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life

"If the thing you are doing is giving you meaning and purpose, time spent doing it is never wasted."

-Ryan Benz, Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life

"I realized that was how problems worked. When you quit worrying about them, they ceased being problems."

-Ryan Benz, Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life

Cover of Walking Home: Common Sense and Other Misadventures On the Pacific Crest Trail by Rick       Rogers

5. Walking Home: Common Sense and Other Misadventures On the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Rick Rogers

4.31

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

-A Heartwarming Adventure! - 2022 Best Book Award Winner in Travel Guides & Essays! Can a comicall… read more

Similar categories in Rick Rogers's Walking Home: Common Sense and Other Misadventures On the Pacific Crest Trail book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Trail by Ethan Gallogly

6. The Trail

By: Ethan Gallogly

4.31

Format: None pages, ebook

A Transformative Journey on the John Muir Trail A NEXT GEN INDIE BOOK AWARD FINALIST Set auth… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Gallogly's The Trail book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • travel
  • outdoors
  • adventure
Cover of Monkeys on the Road: One family's vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life by Mary Hollendoner

7. Monkeys on the Road: One family's vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life

By: Mary Hollendoner

4.60

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A family road trip adventure from California to Argentina, finishing up just a few months ago in mi… read more

Similar categories in Mary Hollendoner's Monkeys on the Road: One family's vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone by Peter  Conti

8. Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

By: Peter Conti

4.34

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

What if you could experience the thrill of an epic voyage through insurmountable obstacles without … read more

Similar categories in Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail by Joan M. Griffin

9. Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

By: Joan M. Griffin

4.44

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, an… read more

Similar categories in Joan M. Griffin's Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) by Patrick     Taylor

10. Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1)

By: Patrick Taylor

4.08

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

“Lost on Purpose” is the non-fiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Taylor's Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of This Is Gonna Hurt: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Arizona Trail in a Calendar Year by Brandon Weis

11. This Is Gonna Hurt: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Arizona Trail in a Calendar Year

By: Brandon Weis

4.34

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Gonna Hurt is the embodiment of unrelenting pursuit of a singular goal, no matter how much … read more

Similar categories in Brandon Weis's This Is Gonna Hurt: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Arizona Trail in a Calendar Year book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

Cover of If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation by Jean Muenchrath

12. If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation

By: Jean Muenchrath

3.94

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Her grand adventure turned into a nightmare. After skiing 200 miles along California's John Muir Tr… read more

Similar categories in Jean Muenchrath's If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
"Life is short. Live you dreams now!"

-Jean Muenchrath, If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation

Cover of Three Years A Traveler: One woman, One dog, Seven Rvs, and the path less traveled to heal the heart by Leslie White

13. Three Years A Traveler: One woman, One dog, Seven Rvs, and the path less traveled to heal the heart

By: Leslie White

4.31

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Leslie White knew she wanted more out of life- She found it in an unlikely place.Devastated from th… read more

Similar categories in Leslie White's Three Years A Traveler: One woman, One dog, Seven Rvs, and the path less traveled to heal the heart book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of 150 Days: The true story of how I lost 88 pound and became a mountain goat on the Pacific Crest Trail by Lise Kristine Viken

14. 150 Days: The true story of how I lost 88 pound and became a mountain goat on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Lise Kristine Viken

4.08

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

The Pacific Crest Trail will change your life... Lise Kristine Viken was an overweight nicotine sl… read more

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Cover of Crunch: A Million Snowy Steps Along the Pacific Crest Trail by Daniel Winsor

15. Crunch: A Million Snowy Steps Along the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Daniel Winsor

4.43

Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, the Pacific Crest Trail wasn’t itself. Okay, so it was still dirt. A lot of dirt—almost… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Michael   Tyler

16. Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Michael Tyler

3.90

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Bored and fed up with life, staring down a 50th birthday, Mike Tyler was looking for a change. Life… read more

Similar categories in Michael Tyler's Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life by Sarah Wynde

17. Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life

By: Sarah Wynde

4.21

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

“Engaging, relatable, and funny…”Honest and wry, a story about choosing happiness over comfort and … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Katahdin: Hiking the Appalachian Trail with Reckless Abandon by Kevin Newsome

18. Katahdin: Hiking the Appalachian Trail with Reckless Abandon

By: Kevin Newsome

4.61

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Haven't you ever wanted to toss your world into the air, throw caution to the wind, and step outsid… read more

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Cover of Whistler's Walk: The Appalachian Trail in 142 Days by William Monk

19. Whistler's Walk: The Appalachian Trail in 142 Days

By: William Monk

4.45

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

In Whistler's The Appalachian Trail in 142 Days, author Bill Monk brings readers his real-life, da… read more

Similar categories in William Monk's Whistler's Walk: The Appalachian Trail in 142 Days book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Hike by Lee Lovelace

20. The Last Hike

By: Lee Lovelace

4.19

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Paul had always wanted to hike The Appalachian Trail, but life got in the way. Now, death would be … read more

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Cover of Fat Mom on a Mountain: Fifty Weeks that Restored My Life by Kriste O'Brien

21. Fat Mom on a Mountain: Fifty Weeks that Restored My Life

By: Kriste O'Brien

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Kriste was overweight and turning fifty. Her approaching birthday milestone was a harsh reminder th… read more

Similar categories in Kriste O'Brien's Fat Mom on a Mountain: Fifty Weeks that Restored My Life book and Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

  • travel

9 best-selling adventure books like Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone by Peter Conti

Transform Your Habits

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

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Trail

Ethan Gallogly

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Monkeys on the Road: One family's vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life

Mary Hollendoner

4.60

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5 Top outdoors books like Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail by Joan M. Griffin

Transform Your Habits

Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Trail

Ethan Gallogly

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

Joan M. Griffin

4.44

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David Smart

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