15 must-read nonfiction books like The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners by Sabrina Little

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The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners

By: Sabrina Little

4.36

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner…

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1. It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

By: Jennifer Wright

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A history of heartbreak-replete with beheadings, uprisings, creepy sex dolls, and celebrity gossip-… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In my favourite picture of them, Oskar is reading a letter while Olga ties his tie for him. His tie matches her dress. Both of them look kind of preoccupied. You don't look at this picture, as you mi…"

-Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

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2. Michael Jordan: The Life

By: Roland Lazenby

4.31

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of a legendary athleteThe Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It

By: Neal Bascomb

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of huma… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. I Came to Say Goodbye

By: Caroline Overington

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

It was four o'clock in the morning. A young woman pushed through the hospital doors. Staff would la… read more

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5. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more

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6. The Science of Running: How to find your limit and train to maximize your performance

By: Steve Magness

3.99

Format: 273 pages,

If you are looking for how to finish your first 5k, this book isn't for you. The Science of Running… read more

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7. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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8. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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9. 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

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  • nonfiction
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10. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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11. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

By: Michael Easter

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."

-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

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12. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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14. 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

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  • nonfiction
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15. Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time

By: Angela Brown

3.66

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman has no choice left but to enjoy the adventure of life—and its surprises—in a funny and emot… read more

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16. Scattered Showers

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.95

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels t… read more

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"It had felt so good to cry. Like her outsides matched her insides."

-Rainbow Rowell, Scattered Showers

"You shouldn't focus on the bad things...Because you draw them toward you. Happiness is about focusing on good things and drawing those things toward you."

-Rainbow Rowell, Scattered Showers

"If you're a careful as you're supposed to be, you seem neurotic. I feel neurotic. Now. And I never used to be. I'm the sort of person who'd share an ice cream cone with a dog...But now I wipe down my…"

-Rainbow Rowell, Scattered Showers

"We think of ourselves - of everything - as having an ideal state. Like, we mature to an ideal state, and then we decay. What if the middle isn't the ideal? What if every moment along the curve is ide…"

-Rainbow Rowell, Scattered Showers

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17. To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Emily Halnon

4.59

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A riveting narrative of love and loss, grief and joy, as one woman embarks on a quest for a record … read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners

By: Sabrina Little

4.36

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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19. Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age

By: Rachel B. Griffis

3.26

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

This book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World

By: Katie Arnold

4.34

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A Zen study wrapped in a memoir of destruction and healing written by an elite ultrarunner as she s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Small Moves Big Gains

By: Nancy Motley

4.44

Format: 102 pages, Perfect Paperback

“I don’t have enough time.” “I learned so many strategies at that training, but I don’t have the ti… read more

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18 must-read audiobook books like The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

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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