11 must-read biography memoir books like Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance by Matt Fitzgerald

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Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

By: Matt Fitzgerald

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attemp…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance by Matt Fitzgerald , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes

1. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

By: Dean Karnazes

4.00

Format: 50 pages,

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Similar categories in Dean Karnazes's Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
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2. Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey

By: Dion Leonard

3.86

Format: 568 pages,

A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion. Finding Gobi is… read more

Similar categories in Dion Leonard's Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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3. The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

By: George Mumford

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Michael Jordan and countless other NBA stars credit George Mumford with transforming their game. A … read more

Similar categories in George Mumford's The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • sports
  • nonfiction

4. Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth

By: Adharanand Finn

2.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A dusty road stretches into the distance like a pencil line across the arid landscape. Lions, rhin… read more

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5. Once a Runner

By: John L. Parker Jr.

4.20

Format: 251 pages,

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6. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

By: Scott Jurek

4.22

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run , a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating… read more

Similar categories in Scott Jurek's North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"It was just numbers. I knew I could outrun numbers."

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

"AT legend has it that Pennsylvania hiking clubs and trail crews are proud of their state's nickname of Rocksylvania and don't remove rocks from the trail. In fact, some people claim they actually dum…"

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

Cover of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex  Hutchinson

7. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

By: Alex Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more

Similar categories in Alex Hutchinson's Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. A Runner's High: My Life in Motion

By: Dean Karnazes

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“A Runner’s High wakes up the appetite to run long distances. Dean takes us on a lifelong journey o… read more

Similar categories in Dean Karnazes's A Runner's High: My Life in Motion book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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9. The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

By: Shane Benzie

4.08

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

'Heads up – here's how to run like a pro' - The Times'A fascinating book' - Adharanand Finn, author… read more

Similar categories in Shane Benzie's The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

By: Meb Keflezighi

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in … read more

Similar categories in Meb Keflezighi's 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"To my classmates, teammates, teachers, coaches, and friends, and the people in the medical field who encouraged and challenged me to be my best in every aspect of life."

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

"Un mod prin care maratonul se deosebește de alte curse îl reprezintă faptul că lecțiile lui au deseori paralele cu restul vieții tale. Răbdarea necesară ca să stăpânești maratonul este o abilitate tr…"

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

Cover of Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness

11. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

By: Steve Magness

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness co… read more

Similar categories in Steve Magness's Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams

12. Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

By: Caroline Williams

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

*Shortlisted for Sunday Times Book of the Year * *A Greater Good Science Center Best Book of 2022* … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Williams's Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"The brain evolved not for us to think but to allow us to move – away from danger and towards rewards."

-Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

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13. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

By: Lauren Fleshman

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Fleshman's Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected."

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attac…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consist…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the s…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

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14. Bravey

By: Alexi Pappas

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

"Renaissance runner" (New York Times) Alexi Pappas--Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker and writer-… read more

Similar categories in Alexi Pappas's Bravey book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Headed to the moon not now but soon."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A life can’t be replicated and it doesn’t need to be."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A dream come true unfolds very very gradually then all at once."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

Cover of The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team by Kara Goucher

15. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more

Similar categories in Kara Goucher's The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden

16. Choosing to Run: A Memoir

By: Des Linden

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more

Similar categories in Des Linden's Choosing to Run: A Memoir book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of How She Did It: A High-Performance Guide for Female Distance Runners with Stories from the Women Who've Made It by Molly Huddle

17. How She Did It: A High-Performance Guide for Female Distance Runners with Stories from the Women Who've Made It

By: Molly Huddle

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An essential guide for female athletes navigating the world of competitive running, featuring 50 ca… read more

Similar categories in Molly Huddle's How She Did It: A High-Performance Guide for Female Distance Runners with Stories from the Women Who've Made It book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory by Deena Kastor

18. Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

By: Deena Kastor

4.36

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a … read more

Similar categories in Deena Kastor's Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"You can't show love by hurting others"

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"What I needed in the moment was a family vacation."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"I saw perseverance, determination, and fearlessness."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"You don't run with your feet- you run with your heart."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

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19. The Incomplete Book of Running

By: Peter Sagal

3.86

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s beloved show Wait Wait..Don’t Tell Me and a popular columnist for Ru… read more

Similar categories in Peter Sagal's The Incomplete Book of Running book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Perhaps you would like to start running. You never have tried before, or you did and you hated it, and now you wonder how to begin moving in a way that will keep you going. Get up. Start. Go. Move. T…"

-Peter Sagal, The Incomplete Book of Running

"If there is any true value in running as a sport, it is that it is a great leveler. Runners don't gear up, armoring ourselves like football players; we strip down to the minimum and empty our hands a…"

-Peter Sagal, The Incomplete Book of Running

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20. Running Home

By: Katie Arnold

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, an Outside magazine writer tells her story—of fathers a… read more

Similar categories in Katie Arnold's Running Home book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance by Matt Fitzgerald

21. Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

By: Matt Fitzgerald

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attemp… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance book and Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook

17 must-read audiobook books like Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance by Matt Fitzgerald

Transform Your Habits

Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey

Dion Leonard

3.86

Transform Your Habits

North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

Scott Jurek

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

Alex Hutchinson

4.13

Transform Your Habits

A Runner's High: My Life in Motion

Dean Karnazes

4.05

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Transform Your Habits

The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

Shane Benzie

4.08

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Tiems, kurie neskaito

Benas Lastauskas

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

John C. Maxwell

4.38

Transform Your Habits

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Michael Easter

3.97

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