14 Best memoir books like Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips

Cover of Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips

Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

By: Hazel Phillips

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One afternoon in Auckland, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the h…

If you liked the memoir plot in Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand by Miriam Lancewood

1. Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand

By: Miriam Lancewood

4.13

Format: None pages,

It tells how one woman learned to dig deep and push the boundaries in order to discover what really… read more

Similar categories in Miriam Lancewood's Woman in the Wilderness: A story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

2. Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

"Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrat… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Going Up is Easy

By: Laurence Fearnley , None

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

In 1988, Lydia Bradey became the first woman to climb Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. S… read more

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4. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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5. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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6. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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7. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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8. Remember Me

By: Charity Norman

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

They never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me… read more

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9. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Shaw's The Bookseller at the End of the World book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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10. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

Similar categories in Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of How to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco Solid

11. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

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"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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12. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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13. Straight Up

By: Ruby Tui

4.38

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Tui's Straight Up book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"

-Ruby Tui, Straight Up

Cover of Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro

14. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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15. Poor People With Money

By: Dominic Hoey

4.03

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale f… read more

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16. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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17. Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days

By: Victoria Bruce

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

“I’m here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no m… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Bruce's Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Amma

By: Saraid de Silva

4.45

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more

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19. Auē

By: Becky Manawatu

4.50

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more

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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."

-Becky Manawatu, Auē

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20. In the Shadow of the Mountain

By: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Vasquez-Lavado's In the Shadow of the Mountain book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We protect us."

-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain

"The host always said: 'Nothing you do is small. Everything begins from there."

-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain

"Even thought I rarely believed it myself, whenever I spoke it aloud, the dream grew. No matter how absurd it sounded, how impossible it seemed, dreaming got me closer to executing."

-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain

"Even while recuperating, we have to keep active. If you don't move at all, you're more likely to get sick. Continuous motion is the best way to manipulate our bodies into believing that we can fully …"

-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain

Cover of The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long

21. The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond

By: Chris Long

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

**The number-one bestseller** The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary … read more

Similar categories in Chris Long's The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. A Forager's Life

By: Helen Lehndorf

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A memoir about belonging and motherhood, told through the author's lifelong passion for wild food … read more

Similar categories in Helen Lehndorf's A Forager's Life book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • memoir
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23. Bewildered

By: Laura Waters

4.31

Format: None pages, None

WINNER OF 2021 ASTW BEST TRAVEL BOOK (Australian Society of Travel Writers) What would move you … read more

Similar categories in Laura Waters's Bewildered book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. Niet alleen

By: Tim Voors

3.94

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Een kleurrijk reisdagboek over vrijheid, vriendschap en verbondenheid: 3100 kilometer, 4 miljoen st… read more

Similar categories in Tim Voors's Niet alleen book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • travel
  • nonfiction
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25. Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond

By: Paul Kilgour

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten b… read more

Similar categories in Paul Kilgour's Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. Bookshop Dogs

By: Ruth Shaw

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Heartwarming and charming stories of dogs and books from the bestselling author of The Bookseller a… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Shaw's Bookshop Dogs book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Evolving: The new book by beloved broadcaster Judy Bailey on finding health and happiness as we age by Judy Bailey

27. Evolving: The new book by beloved broadcaster Judy Bailey on finding health and happiness as we age

By: Judy Bailey

3.77

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

An inspiring and personal guide to ageing well and with happiness, by national treasure Judy Bailey… read more

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Cover of Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips

28. Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

By: Hazel Phillips

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One afternoon in Auckland, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the h… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother by Ineke Meredith

29. On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

By: Ineke Meredith

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon. The world of surgery is str… read more

Similar categories in Ineke Meredith's On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother book and Hazel Phillips's Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Meet You At The Main Divide: An inspirational new memoir about leaving the city for a life in the high country by the authors of Every Bastard Says No by Justine Ross

30. Meet You At The Main Divide: An inspirational new memoir about leaving the city for a life in the high country by the authors of Every Bastard Says No

By: Justine Ross

3.64

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

An inspirational memoir from the authors of Every Bastard Says No about the peaks and troughs of a … read more

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31. Just Another Mountain: A Memoir of Hope

By: Sarah Jane Douglas

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 1997, at the age of 24, Sarah lost her mother to breast cancer. Alone and adrift in the world, s… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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3.44

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4.25

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4.41

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4.23

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