The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
By: Carrot Quinn
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to trav…
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1. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
By: Margaret Killjoy
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Always afraid, never a coward"-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
"On a whim, I went with him. I could always stab him if he tried anything, after all."-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
"I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out."-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
"I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that."-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
2. Valencia
By: Michelle Tea
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
3. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- mental health
4. Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
By: Noé Álvarez
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
5. Unattached: A Year of Heartache, Hiking, and Learning How to Love
By: Reannon Muth
4.06
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone thinks 33-year-old travel writer Reannon Muth is brave for backpacking through dozens of c… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
7. 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
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- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"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
8. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
9. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
By: Toni Jensen
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in s… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most …"-Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
10. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
By: Ted Conover
3.90
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
11. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
12. Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
By: Richard Ratay
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips—before por… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
13. The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
By: Carrot Quinn
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to trav… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- adventure
- travel
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
14. 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
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"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
15. How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail
By: Nicole Antoinette
4.30
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2017, stuck in a loop of codependency and people-pleasing, 32-year-old novice backpacker Nicole … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
16. So Long as It's Wild
By: Barbara Jenkins
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The story of one author's walk across America. From the untold narrative of her impoverished Ozarks… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
17. Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir
By: Brianna Madia
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and triumphant memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Ver… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
18. Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
By: Trina Moyles
4.29
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote … read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
19. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"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
20. What We Owe to Ourselves: a 500-mile hike on the Colorado Trail
By: Nicole Antoinette
4.31
Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition
What happens when you don't want the same things that everyone around you seems to want? How lonely… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
21. The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey
By: Derick Lugo
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Derick Lugo had never been hiking. He didn't even know if he liked being outside all that much. He … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
22. Experienced
By: Kate Young
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“A fizzing, lip-chewing, collar-bone biting, palm-sweating roller-coaster of a rom-com that is both… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
23. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
24. Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer
By: Gail Francis
3.86
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
Just before her 40th birthday, Gail Francis quit her perfectly good job and set out to hike one of … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
25. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
By: Manjula Martin
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural hi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
26. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
By: Jim Morris
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships
By: Danielle Bayard Jackson
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Why do women's friendships feel complicated? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson … read more
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- nonfiction
- mental health
28. Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors
By: Gail Muller
4.08
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Gail Muller was told she’d be in a wheelchair by the age of forty. At forty-one she set out to hike… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
29. Alone in Wonderland
By: Christine Reed
3.95
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Alone in Wonderland is a story about backpacking. But it's also a story about Independence, Love, G… read more
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- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
30. Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
By: Joe Coscarelli
3.97
Format: 448 pages, ebook
A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap—a masterful, street-lev… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
31. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- mental health
