19 must-read memoir books like Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) by Patrick Taylor

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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 …

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1. Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

By: Joan Druett

4.05

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

 Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by None, None, Sam Keith, Richard L. Proenneke

2. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

By: None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans h… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • audiobook
"This country makes a man younger than his birthdays."

-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

"The more I see as I sit here among the rocks, the more I wonder about what I am not seeing."

-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

"There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been."

-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

"I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I'm getting my heat supply I'm working up an appetite that makes…"

-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

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3. Forty Years in the Wilderness

By: Dolly Faulkner

3.86

Format: 568 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

4. Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop

By: Carol Shaben

4.75

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was s… read more

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5. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

By: David Roberts

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration."--Laurence Gonzales, auth… read more

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6. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • 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

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7. 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

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

"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

"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

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8. 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

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Alligators Eat Marshmallows (And Other Things I Learned On My 10,000 Mile Road Trip Around The USA!): A Comedy Memoir by Tony James Slater

9. Alligators Eat Marshmallows (And Other Things I Learned On My 10,000 Mile Road Trip Around The USA!): A Comedy Memoir

By: Tony James Slater

4.46

Format: 488 pages, Kindle Edition

“Show me America!” he cried out to the people. “Okay,” they replied, their voices a roar… “You aske… read more

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  • travel
  • memoir
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10. Ascent into Hell

By: Fergus White

4.48

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with a trouble-free tre… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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11. 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

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  • travel
  • audiobook
  • outdoors
  • adventure
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12. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. The Twenty-Ninth Day

By: Alex Messenger

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure,… read more

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

14. 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
  • outdoors
Cover of Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail by Joan M. Griffin

15. 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

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • 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

16. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • outdoors
  • audiobook
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17. The Call of the Last Frontier: The True Story of a Woman's Twenty-Year Alaska Adventure

By: Melissa L. Cook

4.43

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

"I went to Alaska searching for a job and found an adventure!" —Melissa L. Cook It’s all here—livi… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of Follow Me to Alaska: A true story of one couple’s adventure adjusting from life in a cul-de-sac in El Paso, Texas, to a cabin off-grid in the wilderness of Alaska by Ann Parker

18. Follow Me to Alaska: A true story of one couple’s adventure adjusting from life in a cul-de-sac in El Paso, Texas, to a cabin off-grid in the wilderness of Alaska

By: Ann Parker

4.14

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

A retired law enforcement officer turned pilot and a former math teacher chose to leave their home … read more

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  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Alone in the Fortress of the Bears: 70 Days Surviving Wilderness Alaska: Foraging, Fishing, Hunting by Bruce Buck Nelson

19. Alone in the Fortress of the Bears: 70 Days Surviving Wilderness Alaska: Foraging, Fishing, Hunting

By: Bruce Buck Nelson

4.39

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

On the last day of June, my bush pilot left me alone and without food in a wilderness rainforest of… read more

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

20. 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

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

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

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21. 8 Miraculous Months in the Malayan Jungle: A WWII Pilot's True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival

By: Donald J. "DJ" Humphrey II

4.46

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

A Grueling Survival Story About a WWII Hero’s Fight for Freedom On January 11, 1945, Major Donald … read more

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

22. 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

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  • 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

23. 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 Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance by Jeff Garmire

24. Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

By: Jeff Garmire

4.18

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

A man walked into the woods, destined to spend 8 months living in the wild. Exhausted and emotional… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • audiobook
Cover of The Red Road: Book One of the McGinn Family Saga by J.E. McCarthy

25. The Red Road: Book One of the McGinn Family Saga

By: J.E. McCarthy

4.26

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

First Place Winner, Fall 2023 Historical FictionThere’s no greater duty than family…In the heart of… read more

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26. Missouri Wilderness 1829

By: Daniel Ogren

4.39

Format: 515 pages, Kindle Edition

Missouri Wilderness 1829 tells the story of Jack Frankland as he spends the winter surviving the wi… read more

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27. Paradise Creek: A True Story of Adventure and Survival

By: David Scott

4.08

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Picture a place 125 miles from the nearest human where the land is as wild and unpredictable as the… read more

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  • travel
  • adventure
Cover of Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life by Sarah Wynde

28. 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 Tears in the Wind: Triumph and Tragedy on America’s Highest Peak by Larry Semento

29. Tears in the Wind: Triumph and Tragedy on America’s Highest Peak

By: Larry Semento

3.93

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

                 An Extraordinary True Adventure Story “This is an incredible account of what it t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • adventure
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30. Winds of Skilak

By: Bonnie Rose Ward

4.31

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

FIRST PLACE - JOURNEY AWARDS for Narrative Non-Fiction Chanticleer Book Reviews 2015 WINNER - NE… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Impossible Beyond This Point: True Adventure Creating A Self-Sufficient Life In The Wilderness by Joel Horn

31. Impossible Beyond This Point: True Adventure Creating A Self-Sufficient Life In The Wilderness

By: Joel Horn

4.17

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of one family's struggle and triumph creating a self-sufficient life in the wilderne… read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure

8 Best audiobook books like Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) by Patrick Taylor

Transform Your Habits

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett

4.05

Transform Your Habits

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Forty Years in the Wilderness

Dolly Faulkner

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Ascent into Hell

Fergus White

4.48

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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

Transform Your Habits

The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

David Smart

4.32

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