12 Best nonfiction books like The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment) by Francis Sanzaro

Cover of The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment) by Francis Sanzaro

The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

By: Francis Sanzaro

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"Outstandingly good … It may be the single most insightful book about climbing ever written."  Paul…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment) by Francis Sanzaro , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti

1. The Mountains of My Life

By: Walter Bonatti

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Walter Bonatti's The Mountains of My Life book and Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

  • climbing
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

2. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

By: Ed Yong

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Cover of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil

3. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

By: Cathy O'Neil

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell

4. The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits

By: Tommy Caldwell

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, … read more

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  • climbing
  • sports
  • nonfiction

5. Wind, Sand and Stars

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Lewis Galantière

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, … read more

Similar categories in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Wind, Sand and Stars book and Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

  • nonfiction
Cover of Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell

6. Ways of Going Home

By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ways of Going Homebegins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy.… read more

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7. Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance

By: Eric J. Hörst

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

This is the completely revised and updated edition of Flash Training, the fundamental manual for ph… read more

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8. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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9. 9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes

By: Dave MacLeod , None

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

9 out of 10 climbers make the same mistakes - navigation through the maze of advice for the self-co… read more

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10. The Living Mountain

By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more

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11. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

By: Alex Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more

Similar categories in Alex Hutchinson's Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance book and Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1) by Cadwell Turnbull

12. No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

3.45

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. … read more

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13. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout book and Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cover of The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life by Mark Synnott

14. The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life

By: Mark Synnott

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The climbing community had long considered a "free solo" ascent of El Capitan an impossible feat so… read more

Similar categories in Mark Synnott's The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life book and Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

  • climbing
  • sports
  • nonfiction
"Peter Croft once explained the feeling you get from free soloing as a heightened type of perception. A little edge that you need to stand on looks huge—everything comes into high relief. That’s just …"

-Mark Synnott, The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life

Cover of Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

15. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

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"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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16. Ball Lightning

By: Liu Cixin

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A new standalone military SF adventure from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-B… read more

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"I realized that beauty for most people is characterized by fragility and powerlessness. True beauty needs to be supported by an internal strength, and develop itself through sensations like terror an…"

-Liu Cixin, Ball Lightning

Cover of Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor  García

17. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

By: Héctor García

3.72

Format: 208 pages, None

None read more

Similar categories in Héctor García's Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life book and Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment) by Francis Sanzaro

18. The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

By: Francis Sanzaro

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"Outstandingly good … It may be the single most insightful book about climbing ever written."  Paul… read more

Similar categories in Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment) book and Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • climbing
  • sports
Cover of Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah  Hart

19. Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

By: Sarah Hart

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” ―Jordan Elle… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hart's Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature book and Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

  • nonfiction
Cover of Mastermind: Mental Training for Climbers by Jerry Moffatt

20. Mastermind: Mental Training for Climbers

By: Jerry Moffatt

4.22

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

‘The brain is the most important muscle for climbing.’ – Wolfgang Güllich Mastermind by climbing le… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Moffatt's Mastermind: Mental Training for Climbers book and Francis Sanzaro's The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

  • climbing
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Lifer: Rock Climbing Adventures in the GUNKS and Beyond by Russ Clune Clune

21. The Lifer: Rock Climbing Adventures in the GUNKS and Beyond

By: Russ Clune Clune

4.50

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

One of the world’s most well-traveled rock climbers, Clune takes us on an up-close journey though t… read more

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  • climbing

6 Top climbing books like The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment) by Francis Sanzaro

Transform Your Habits

The Mountains of My Life

Walter Bonatti

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits

Tommy Caldwell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life

Mark Synnott

4.19

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The Zen of Climbing (In the Moment)

Francis Sanzaro

3.92

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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

David Epstein

4.20

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How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

Matt Fitzgerald

4.10

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

4.57

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North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

Scott Jurek

4.22

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