13 best-selling biography books like So Long as It's Wild by Barbara Jenkins

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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…

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1. The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2

By: Peter Jenkins , Barbara Jenkins , Barbara Jenkins

3.92

Format: 98 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
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2. A Walk Across America

By: Peter Jenkins

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book… read more

Similar categories in Peter Jenkins's A Walk Across America book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
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3. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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4. The Flower Sisters

By: Michelle Collins Anderson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Drawing on the little-known true story of a tragic event that took place in the author’s Missouri h… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Collins Anderson's The Flower Sisters book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • audiobook
"Sometimes I think spring lasts about fifteen minutes around here and then we're all sitting on Hell's front porch."

-Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

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5. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycle… read more

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning. I…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I was in the zone, each day biking farther than the last, and becoming ever more accustomed to my solitude. An entire day passed without me speaking to a single human. I did speak though, just to the…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

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9. I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

By: Emily Farris

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A hilariously honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD… read more

Similar categories in Emily Farris's I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

By: Blythe Roberson

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read abou… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Roberson's America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It sometimes feels like men feel the need to assert their dominance over nature. Rich white men, who have no problems, climb mountains to see what having problems feels like."

-Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

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11. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

Similar categories in Owen Elliot-Kugell's My Mama, Cass: A Memoir book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

By: Ramin Setoodeh

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more

Similar categories in Ramin Setoodeh's Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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14. 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

Similar categories in Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir by Brianna Madia

15. 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

Similar categories in Brianna Madia's Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

4.03

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

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17. Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A moving meditation on the hidden, sometimes difficult topics we must consider to live an authentic… read more

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I WAS ASKED recently, “Who is your best friend?"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

"Being labeled is claustrophobic. It locks you into connotations."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

"It takes a safe and wide love to teach a man that it's possible to fail and remain."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

"As I get older and listen to my life, the truest things seem to live in paradoxical tension. Hope holding hands with understanding. Expectation dancing with the hard lessons of humility. The human he…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are

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18. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

By: R. Derek Black

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of … read more

Similar categories in R. Derek Black's The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • audiobook
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20. There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir

By: Ruthie Lindsey

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Ruthie is a gifted storyteller with the unique ability to make you feel her emotions as if they're… read more

Similar categories in Ruthie Lindsey's There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

21. 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

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Barbara Jenkins's So Long as It's Wild

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

19 best-selling audiobook books like So Long as It's Wild by Barbara Jenkins

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Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

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Michelle Collins Anderson

4.08

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Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Stephanie Land

3.62

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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

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6 Best nature books like America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled by Blythe Roberson

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

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Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

Conor Knighton

4.26

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Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Peggy Orenstein

3.89

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3.76

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