20 best-selling memoir books like Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance by Jeff Garmire

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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…

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Cover of Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Carrot Quinn

1. Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Carrot Quinn

4.10

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and sh… read more

Similar categories in Carrot Quinn's Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I’ve spent every waking moment nurturing and maintaining my relationship with this eighteen-inch by 2660-mile ribbon of dirt."

-Carrot Quinn, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

"I’ve been eating this shit for so long that I’ve transcended the need to actually enjoy my food. No more desires. Eat to live, not live to eat."

-Carrot Quinn, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

2. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

By: David Miller

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A 41-year-old engineer quits his job to hike the Appalachian Trail. This is a true account of his h… read more

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Cover of Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life by Ryan Benz

3. 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

Similar categories in Ryan Benz's Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"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

Cover of Walking Home: Common Sense and Other Misadventures On the Pacific Crest Trail by Rick       Rogers

4. 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

Similar categories in Rick Rogers's Walking Home: Common Sense and Other Misadventures On the Pacific Crest Trail book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Trail by Ethan Gallogly

5. 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

Similar categories in Ethan Gallogly's The Trail book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • adventure
  • travel
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman

6. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

By: Jon Billman

3.69

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more

Similar categories in Jon Billman's The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail by Heather Anish Anderson

7. 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

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

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

8. 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

Similar categories in Peter Conti's Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail by Joan M. Griffin

9. 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
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

10. 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 Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • 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

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

11. 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

Similar categories in Patrick Taylor's Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • audiobook
Cover of This Is Gonna Hurt: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Arizona Trail in a Calendar Year by Brandon Weis

12. This Is Gonna Hurt: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Arizona Trail in a Calendar Year

By: Brandon Weis

4.34

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Gonna Hurt is the embodiment of unrelenting pursuit of a singular goal, no matter how much … read more

Similar categories in Brandon Weis's This Is Gonna Hurt: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Arizona Trail in a Calendar Year book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

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

13. 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
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"Life is short. Live you dreams now!"

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

Cover of River Hippies & Mountain Men: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 2) by Patrick     Taylor

14. River Hippies & Mountain Men: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 2)

By: Patrick Taylor

4.28

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

River Hippies & Mountain Men is the latest non-fiction adventure from Patrick Taylor (the Texas Yet… read more

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Cover of Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson

15. 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

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

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

16. 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 Alone on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 3) by Patrick     Taylor

17. Alone on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 3)

By: Patrick Taylor

4.06

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

In “Alone on Purpose”, amateur adventurer Patrick Taylor pulls back the curtain covering wilderness… read more

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Cover of Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance by Jeff Garmire

18. 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

Similar categories in Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

19. 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

Similar categories in Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Michael   Tyler

20. Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Michael Tyler

3.90

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Bored and fed up with life, staring down a 50th birthday, Mike Tyler was looking for a change. Life… read more

Similar categories in Michael Tyler's Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Jeff Garmire's Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • audiobook
Cover of Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer by Gail Francis

21. 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
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Balancing on Blue: A Dromomaniac Hiking by Keith Foskett

22. Balancing on Blue: A Dromomaniac Hiking

By: Keith Foskett

4.20

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here and here One man’s remarkab… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Bewildered by Laura  Waters

23. Bewildered

By: Laura Waters

4.31

Format: None pages, None

WINNER OF 2021 ASTW BEST TRAVEL BOOK (Australian Society of Travel Writers) What would move you … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Last Englishman by Keith Foskett

24. The Last Englishman

By: Keith Foskett

4.23

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition for ASIN B007EDIAY4 For previous cover edition see here A real-life … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I have a recurring dream in which I am 85 years old, sitting in my living room, swaying back and forth in a rocking chair, studying the newspaper. I pause, look up and think of all the adventures I c…"

-Keith Foskett, The Last Englishman

Cover of The Journey in Between by Keith Foskett

25. The Journey in Between

By: Keith Foskett

4.15

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

A man at a crossroads. A thousand-mile hike. A life forever changed. Keith Foskett was the definiti… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors by Gail Muller

26. 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
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Chasing Summer on the Continental Divide Trail (Triple Crown Trilogy (AT, PCT, CDT) Book 3) by Kyle Rohrig

27. Chasing Summer on the Continental Divide Trail (Triple Crown Trilogy (AT, PCT, CDT) Book 3)

By: Kyle Rohrig

4.57

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

(Kindle copy includes more than 35 full color photographs from the journey!)Do you hear that? Well,… read more

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Cover of Divided: A Walk on the Continental Divide Trail by Brian Cornell

28. Divided: A Walk on the Continental Divide Trail

By: Brian Cornell

4.01

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Once a person hikes a long trail, they catch the bug, but does it get any easier the second time ar… read more

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

29. 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
Cover of Cow Pie Water: 2,659 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada by Roger W. Lowther

30. Cow Pie Water: 2,659 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada

By: Roger W. Lowther

4.07

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

"Cow Pie Water" recounts a five-and-a-half month journey on the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to … read more

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  • travel
Cover of Hardhat Ballet: Adventures of a Young Man Exploring the World (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti) by Patrick     Taylor

31. Hardhat Ballet: Adventures of a Young Man Exploring the World (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti)

By: Patrick Taylor

4.37

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

"Hardhat Ballet" is a captivating recollection of an intentionally adventurous life. It contains mo… read more

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13 best-selling audiobook books like Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance by Jeff Garmire

Transform Your Habits

Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Trail

Ethan Gallogly

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

Jon Billman

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail

Heather Anish Anderson

4.10

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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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