15 must-read memoir books like Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life by Sarah Wynde

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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 …

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Cover of Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West by Marty Ohlhaut

1. 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

Similar categories in Marty Ohlhaut's Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West book and Sarah Wynde's Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

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

2. 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
"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

"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

"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

3. 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 Sarah Wynde's Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life

  • 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

4. 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
Cover of The Year We Ruined Our Lives:  A Family Road Trip Through Mexico and Central America by Paul  Carlino

5. The Year We Ruined Our Lives: A Family Road Trip Through Mexico and Central America

By: Paul Carlino

4.24

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

Paul and his wife Rebecca had it all. Good jobs, healthy kids, their dream house, and the nagging f… read more

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Cover of Monkeys on the Road: One family's vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life by Mary Hollendoner

6. Monkeys on the Road: One family's vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life

By: Mary Hollendoner

4.60

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A family road trip adventure from California to Argentina, finishing up just a few months ago in mi… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Mistakes were Made

By: Andy C Wareing

4.30

Format: None pages, None

2020 turned out to be a year most of the world would spend in pajamas. And that’s what we should ha… read more

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  • travel
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 Sarah Wynde's Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days by Helen Rebanks

9. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days

By: Helen Rebanks

3.89

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more

Similar categories in Helen Rebanks's The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days book and Sarah Wynde's Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life

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

10. 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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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 Sarah Wynde's Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life

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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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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14. 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

15. 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 Ellie Dwyer's Great Escape by Diane Winger

16. Ellie Dwyer's Great Escape

By: Diane Winger

4.37

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

You're never too old to run away from home Ellie Dwyer, 61, is convinced bad luck comes in three… read more

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  • travel
Cover of A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family by Mark E.   Miller

17. A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family

By: Mark E. Miller

4.44

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

“Outstanding memoir . . . as well as closely observed, poignant, and wistful."—C. J. Box, #1 New Yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Whatever the reason for their choices, too many country men saw the best years of their lives melt with the ice cubes in the bottom of an empty whiskey glass."

-Mark E. Miller, A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family

Cover of Open Road: A Midlife Memoir of Travel and the National Parks (Memoir Series) by T.W. Neal

18. Open Road: A Midlife Memoir of Travel and the National Parks (Memoir Series)

By: T.W. Neal

4.00

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

I had a dream to live a “normal” life, and I attained it; but along the way, I lost myself. My stor… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Driving Italy: A Cheeky Travel Memoir (Fun Travels in the Golden Years #1) by Rada  Jones

19. Driving Italy: A Cheeky Travel Memoir (Fun Travels in the Golden Years #1)

By: Rada Jones

4.14

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Two intrepid curmudgeons. An SUV with red plates. Ten thousand miles of twisty roads. What could go… read more

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Cover of Three Years in a Walmart Parking Lot by Sharon Waters

20. Three Years in a Walmart Parking Lot

By: Sharon Waters

4.24

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Restless sixty-nine year old Sharon Waters buys an RV, leaves everything behind except her devoted … read more

Similar categories in Sharon Waters's Three Years in a Walmart Parking Lot book and Sarah Wynde's Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Running from COVID in our RV Cocoon by Gerri Almand

21. Running from COVID in our RV Cocoon

By: Gerri Almand

4.15

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A couple of grizzled old geezers leave for a months-long RV trip in February 2020. But they are… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life by Sarah Wynde

22. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Wynde's Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life book and Sarah Wynde's Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Camper Chronicles Open Road by Tracy Perkins

23. Camper Chronicles Open Road

By: Tracy Perkins

4.12

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

The tale of how two 40 something empty nesters quit their jobs, sold their stuff, and traveled the … read more

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Cover of The Golden Gals' French Adventure by Judy Leigh

24. The Golden Gals' French Adventure

By: Judy Leigh

4.50

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixty-nine-year-old Fliss has lived a life! A career running her own successful business, a beautif… read more

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25. The Constant Traveller: When the journey is all that matters (In Search of a Simple Life Book 4)

By: Mary-Jane Houlton

4.47

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Mary-Jane Houlton and her husband Michael live a nomadic life. They own a small off-grid cabin in F… read more

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  • travel
Cover of Fat Mom on a Mountain: Fifty Weeks that Restored My Life by Kriste O'Brien

26. Fat Mom on a Mountain: Fifty Weeks that Restored My Life

By: Kriste O'Brien

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Kriste was overweight and turning fifty. Her approaching birthday milestone was a harsh reminder th… read more

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  • travel
Cover of The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth by Minu Cash

27. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

Similar categories in Minu Cash's The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth book and Sarah Wynde's Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life

  • nonfiction
"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

Cover of The Reluctant RV Wife by Gerri Almand

28. The Reluctant RV Wife

By: Gerri Almand

4.06

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Follow a reluctant wife and her excited husband through two humorously-conflicted years of RV trave… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Confessions of a Middle-Aged Runaway: An RV Travel Adventure by Heidi Eliason

29. Confessions of a Middle-Aged Runaway: An RV Travel Adventure

By: Heidi Eliason

3.86

Format: 274 pages, ebook

For fans of Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, an entertaining story of a five-year, motorhome road trip tak… read more

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  • travel
Cover of Full Time RV Living : The First 6 months: The True Story that no one tells you by Janice Szur

30. Full Time RV Living : The First 6 months: The True Story that no one tells you

By: Janice Szur

3.72

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

Full-Time RV LivingThis is a story of the first six months on the road full time and the humourous … read more

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Cover of Home Is Where the RV Is (RV Wife) by Gerri Almand

31. Home Is Where the RV Is (RV Wife)

By: Gerri Almand

4.11

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Will two more years of RV travel turn a reluctant RV wife into a minimalistic nomad? In this follo… read more

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17 Top nonfiction books like Practicing Happiness: A Memoir of Van Life by Sarah Wynde

Transform Your Habits

Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Transform Your Habits

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

Ryan Benz

4.51

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Walking Home: Common Sense and Other Misadventures On the Pacific Crest Trail

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4.31

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4.60

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Marty Ohlhaut

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The Trail

Ethan Gallogly

4.31

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Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

Joan M. Griffin

4.44

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