7 Top adventure books like The Last Blue Mountain by Ralph Barker

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The Last Blue Mountain

By: Ralph Barker

3.96

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Epic story of 1950s mountain climbing in remote Pakistan. "One of the better mountaineering tales o…

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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Simpson's Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • mountaineering
  • survival
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"

-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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2. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more

Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

"Why should I discuss it with you?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

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3. Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

By: Nick Heil

4.08

Format: 88 pages,

In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everes… read more

Similar categories in Nick Heil's Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • survival
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
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4. The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits

By: Tommy Caldwell

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Caldwell's The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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5. Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest

By: Beck Weathers , Stephen G. Michaud

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest,starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes,… read more

Similar categories in Beck Weathers's Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • mountaineering
  • survival
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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6. Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

By: Lee H. Whittlesey

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Paperback

Intriguing stories of how people have died in Yellowstone warn about the many dangers that exist th… read more

Similar categories in Lee H. Whittlesey's Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • nonfiction
  • history

7. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

By: Jon Krakauer

4.38

Format: 234 pages,

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8. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

By: David Roberts

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration."--Laurence Gonzales, auth… read more

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9. Annapurna

By: Maurice Herzog , Janet Adam Smith , Eric Shipton , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

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10. K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

By: David Roberts , Ed Viesturs

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and … read more

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11. Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks

By: Greg Child , Clint Willis

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Audio

Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of expeditions to the world's most famous peaks… read more

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12. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By: Donnie Eichar

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriousl… read more

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13. The Shining Mountain: Two Men On Changabang's West Wall

By: Peter Boardman

3.82

Format: None pages,

Describes the adventures of Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker on their expedition to climb a mountain i… read more

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14. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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15. Crossing Open Ground

By: Barry Lopez

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and fo… read more

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16. Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard re… read more

Similar categories in Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Chivalry

By: Neil Gaiman

4.21

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

Another delightfully humorous and sweet fantasy graphic novel adaptation of a Neil Gaiman short sto… read more

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"Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat."

-Neil Gaiman, Chivalry

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18. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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19. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.25

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in th… read more

Similar categories in Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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21. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

Similar categories in Cat Bohannon's Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. Ascent into Hell

By: Fergus White

4.48

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with a trouble-free tre… read more

Similar categories in Fergus White's Ascent into Hell book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • mountaineering
  • survival
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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23. Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day

By: Jennifer Hull

4.01

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award (History/Biography category) Winner of the 2021 Zia… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Hull's Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • adventure
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24. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.37

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more

Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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Cover of Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering by Cameron R. Hanes

26. Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

By: Cameron R. Hanes

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERPush beyond your physical limits to improve you… read more

Similar categories in Cameron R. Hanes's Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • nonfiction
"This is about abolishing the ego and taking the first step toward becoming the real you!"

-Cameron R. Hanes, Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

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27. Meet Me in Another Life

By: Catriona Silvey

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two people. Infinite lifetimes. One impossible choice. Thora and Santi are strangers in a foreig… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Silvey's Meet Me in Another Life book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

"Don't go raking through broken glass looking for diamonds."

-Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

"There is no wrong choice", Santi says. "There is just what happens"

-Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

"Why did you expect to see a woman?’ Thora shrugs. ‘Because whoever’s masterminding all this has to be pretty smart?"

-Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

"She doesn’t want to see you.’ Thora’s daughter sounds upset. ‘She says she thought she’d made that clear.’ […] ‘She also told me to tell you she’s in the central hospital, and that visiting hours are…"

-Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

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28. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the… read more

Similar categories in Bill O'Reilly's Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Metronome

By: Tom Watson

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, striking debut by an award-winning author for fans of Emma Stonex, Francine Toon and Mega… read more

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30. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir

By: Karen Cheung

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An insider's account of Hong Kong--from its tenacious counterculture and robust underground music s… read more

Similar categories in Karen Cheung's The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • nonfiction
  • history
"People often characterize depression as a lack of hope or vitality, but I associate it more with a restlessness, an inability to feel at peace. You’re on the couch watching Netflix in furry pajamas, …"

-Karen Cheung, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir

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31. The Last Blue Mountain

By: Ralph Barker

3.96

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Epic story of 1950s mountain climbing in remote Pakistan. "One of the better mountaineering tales o… read more

Similar categories in Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain book and Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain

  • survival
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering

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4.71

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4.19

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4.04

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Sebastian Faulks

3.60

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3.79

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