8 best-selling biography memoir books like Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer by Gail Francis

Cover of Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer by Gail Francis

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 …

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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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

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

Cover of Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts

2. Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

By: Suzanne Roberts

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished c… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail book and Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Dear Bob and Sue by Matt   Smith, Karen     Smith

3. Dear Bob and Sue

By: Matt Smith , Karen Smith

3.93

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

This complete version of Dear Bob and Sue chronicles the journey of Matt and Karen Smith, who took … read more

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

4. Becoming Odyssa: Epic Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

By: Jennifer Pharr Davis

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn… read more

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5. Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail

By: Paul V. Stutzman

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

After losing his wife to breast cancer, Paul Stutzman decided to make some big changes. He quit his… read more

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6. Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

By: Aspen Matis

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada… read more

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

7. 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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail by Heather Anish Anderson

8. 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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

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

9. 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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson

12. 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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 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 The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey by Derick Lugo

13. 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

Similar categories in Derick Lugo's The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey book and Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance by Jeff Garmire

14. 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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

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

15. 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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

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

16. 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 Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

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

17. 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

Similar categories in Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer book and Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • wilderness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Balancing on Blue: A Dromomaniac Hiking by Keith Foskett

18. 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

Similar categories in Keith Foskett's Balancing on Blue: A Dromomaniac Hiking book and Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. 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

Similar categories in Laura Waters's Bewildered book and Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

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

20. 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

Similar categories in Keith Foskett's The Last Englishman book and Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

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

21. 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

Similar categories in Gail Muller's Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors book and Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

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

13 Top audiobook books like Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer by Gail Francis

Transform Your Habits

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

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Dear Bob and Sue

Matt Smith , Karen Smith

3.93

Transform Your Habits

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

Heather Anish Anderson

4.10

Transform Your Habits

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko

4.36

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15 Top adventure books like Bewildered by Laura Waters

Transform Your Habits

A life on Gorge River: New Zealand's remotest family

Robert Long

3.60

Transform Your Habits

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

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand

Miriam Lancewood

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

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