18 Top audiobook books like The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness by Ken Smith

Cover of The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness by Ken Smith

The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Subconsciously, I pressed myself into the loch's banks as that summer inched forward. We'd got off …

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness by Ken Smith , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by None, None, Sam Keith, Richard L. Proenneke

1. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • 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

2. Growing Up Amish

By: Ira Wagler

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Ira Wagler was born in 1961, the ninth of a Canadian Amish couple's eleven children. At seventeen, … read more

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Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

3. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • adventure
Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

4. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cover of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Cover of The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic by Daniel de Visé

6. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

Similar categories in Daniel de Visé's The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

7. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Cover of Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin

8. Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale of… read more

Similar categories in Eric Jay Dolin's Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
Cover of Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell

9. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

By: Brett Popplewell

4.31

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Into the Wild  meets  Born to Run  meets  The Stranger in the Woods  in a fascinating true story of… read more

Similar categories in Brett Popplewell's Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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 Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • 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

Cover of The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us by Chimene Suleyman

11. The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us

By: Chimene Suleyman

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her… read more

Similar categories in Chimene Suleyman's The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley by Brent Underwood

12. Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley

By: Brent Underwood

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned… read more

Similar categories in Brent Underwood's Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience by Aditi Nerurkar

13. The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience

By: Aditi Nerurkar

4.11

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

“The key is managing stress, so we can lead healthier, happier lives. The 5 Resets will help you do… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.23

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

15. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness by Ken Smith

16. The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Subconsciously, I pressed myself into the loch's banks as that summer inched forward. We'd got off … read more

Similar categories in Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness book and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • audiobook
Cover of The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free by Pete Hegseth

17. The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free

By: Pete Hegseth

4.48

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Real men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs. Pete Hegseth joined the Army t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Rights are not rights when they are contingent on the favor of government or political leaders."

-Pete Hegseth, The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free

Cover of When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman

18. When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

By: Alice Hoffman

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman delivers a stunning novel about one of contemporary history's most… read more

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Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

19. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Earth to Moon: A Memoir by Moon Unit Zappa

20. Earth to Moon: A Memoir

By: Moon Unit Zappa

4.42

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery by Theodore H. Schwartz

21. Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

By: Theodore H. Schwartz

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

“If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a mus… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

7 must-read adventure books like The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness by Ken Smith

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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

Eric Jay Dolin

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

Brett Popplewell

4.31

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21 Best audiobook books like On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

4.45

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