19 must-read nonfiction books like Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans

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Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

By: Martinus Evans

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. A Beautiful Work In Progress

By: Mirna Valerio

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Runners’ vocabulary is full of acronyms like DNS for “Did Not Start” and DNF for “Did Not Finish,” … read more

Similar categories in Mirna Valerio's A Beautiful Work In Progress book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • fitness
  • memoir
  • health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Acknowledging and welcoming your self-worth, your own extraordinary power, is incredible. You become unstoppable."

-Mirna Valerio, A Beautiful Work In Progress

"There is still a beauty about simply doing the difficult thing that I will never be good at, for the pure pleasure of having engaged in the process."

-Mirna Valerio, A Beautiful Work In Progress

"I love the experience of digging deep, pulling layer after layer off the onion that is me, discovering the most profound parts of myself over and over again."

-Mirna Valerio, A Beautiful Work In Progress

"Those legs bear the scars of the entire family, the burden of having been born into a poor family, the psychological weight of not having a high school diploma, and the onus of worrying about wayward…"

-Mirna Valerio, A Beautiful Work In Progress

Cover of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons by Bryon Powell, Eric Grossman

2. Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons

By: Bryon Powell , Eric Grossman

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Bryon Powell's Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • self help
  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • sports
  • audiobook

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. My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan

By: Tom Foreman

4.15

Format: 384 pages,

CNN correspondent Tom Foreman's remarkable journey from half-hearted couch potato to ultra-marathon… read more

Similar categories in Tom Foreman's My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

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5. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Gordon's “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • self help
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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

Similar categories in Lauren Fleshman's Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • memoir
  • health
  • 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

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7. The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir

By: Caster Semenya

4.27

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and car… read more

Similar categories in Caster Semenya's The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team by Kara Goucher

8. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more

Similar categories in Kara Goucher's The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • fitness
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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9. Choosing to Run: A Memoir

By: Des Linden

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more

Similar categories in Des Linden's Choosing to Run: A Memoir book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier by Scott  Douglas

10. Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

By: Scott Douglas

3.76

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times –bestselling author and lifelong runner, a groundbreaking guide to fighting d… read more

Similar categories in Scott Douglas's Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • self help
  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, and Live Happier"

-Scott Douglas, Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

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11. Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us

By: Alison Mariella Désir

4.58

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimag… read more

Similar categories in Alison Mariella Désir's Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level by Matt Fitzgerald

12. Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level

By: Matt Fitzgerald

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Cutting-edge advice on how to achieve your personal best, for everyone from casual runners to ultra… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • self help
  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory by Deena Kastor

13. Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

By: Deena Kastor

4.36

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a … read more

Similar categories in Deena Kastor's Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • self help
  • fitness
  • memoir
  • health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"You can't show love by hurting others"

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"What I needed in the moment was a family vacation."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"I saw perseverance, determination, and fearlessness."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"You don't run with your feet- you run with your heart."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

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14. Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

By: Christine Yu

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“ Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and dis… read more

Similar categories in Christine Yu's Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • audiobook
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
Cover of Master the Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide for Women by Ali Nolan

15. Master the Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide for Women

By: Ali Nolan

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

“A must-have for any woman targeting the distance.” —Runner’s World A no-nonsense, interactive gui… read more

Similar categories in Ali Nolan's Master the Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide for Women book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • audiobook
  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • self help
Cover of Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans

16. Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

By: Martinus Evans

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from … read more

Similar categories in Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • self help
  • fitness
  • memoir
  • health
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Run to the Finish: The Everyday Runner's Guide to Avoiding Injury, Ignoring the Clock, and Loving the Run by Amanda     Brooks

17. Run to the Finish: The Everyday Runner's Guide to Avoiding Injury, Ignoring the Clock, and Loving the Run

By: Amanda Brooks

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Inspiration and practical tips for runners who prioritize enjoyment over pace and embrace their pla… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brooks's Run to the Finish: The Everyday Runner's Guide to Avoiding Injury, Ignoring the Clock, and Loving the Run book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • self help
  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Adventure Ready: A Hiker's Guide to Planning, Training & Resiliency by Katie Gerber

18. Adventure Ready: A Hiker's Guide to Planning, Training & Resiliency

By: Katie Gerber

4.26

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

This clear and comprehensive DIY guide and manual sets backpackers up for success with detailed inf… read more

Similar categories in Katie Gerber's Adventure Ready: A Hiker's Guide to Planning, Training & Resiliency book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos by Mark Chiusano

19. The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos

By: Mark Chiusano

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turnin… read more

Similar categories in Mark Chiusano's The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide for People Who Just Want to Lie Down by Sarah Kurchak

20. Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide for People Who Just Want to Lie Down

By: Sarah Kurchak

3.94

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

An encouraging fitness book that meets you where you are--even if you're lying on the floor. Exe… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kurchak's Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide for People Who Just Want to Lie Down book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • self help
  • fitness
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • audiobook
Cover of All You Need is Rhythm & Grit: How to Run Now―for Health, Joy, and a Body That Loves You Back by Cory Wharton-Malcolm

21. All You Need is Rhythm & Grit: How to Run Now―for Health, Joy, and a Body That Loves You Back

By: Cory Wharton-Malcolm

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An infectiously positive and inclusive guide to running, from everyone's favourite Apple Fitness+ a… read more

Similar categories in Cory Wharton-Malcolm's All You Need is Rhythm & Grit: How to Run Now―for Health, Joy, and a Body That Loves You Back book and Martinus Evans's Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

  • health
  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports

17 Top audiobook books like Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans

Transform Your Habits

A Beautiful Work In Progress

Mirna Valerio

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons

Bryon Powell , Eric Grossman

4.20

Transform Your Habits

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Lauren Fleshman

4.47

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10 Top adult books like Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide for People Who Just Want to Lie Down by Sarah Kurchak

Transform Your Habits

How to Tame a Wild Rogue (The Palace of Rogues, #6)

Julie Anne Long

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Lady Derring Takes a Lover (The Palace of Rogues #1)

Julie Anne Long

3.96

Transform Your Habits

My Season of Scandal (The Palace of Rogues #7)

Julie Anne Long

4.34

Transform Your Habits

You Were Made to Be Mine (The Palace of Rogues, #5)

Julie Anne Long

4.05

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