10 Top biography memoir books like 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains by Cheryl Suchors

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48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

By: Cheryl Suchors

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Floundering in her second career, the one she’s always wanted, forty-eight year old Cheryl Suchors …

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1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By: Bill Bryson

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, a… read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It’s a bit burned,"

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

"Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had."

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Cover of This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman

2. This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone

By: Melissa Coleman

4.16

Format: 347 pages,

Set on the rugged coast of Maine during the 1970s, This Life Is in Your Hands introduces a superb y… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Coleman's This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray

3. Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

By: Liz Murray

4.21

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age … read more

Similar categories in Liz Murray's Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not."

-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

"... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was."

-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

"Out of nowhere, for whatever reason, a different feeling snuck up in its place, and hope. If life could change for the worst, I thought, then maybe life could change for the better."

-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

"The more needy I kept myself, the more it would always be up to other people what happened to me, I decided I would make my life so full of things that empowered me, people like this woman would shri…"

-Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

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4. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

By: Ben Montgomery

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more

Similar categories in Ben Montgomery's Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure

5. Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire

By: None

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

These compelling profiles of 22 adventurous?yet unlucky?climbers chronicle more than a century of e… read more

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6. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

By: Jon Krakauer

4.38

Format: 234 pages,

A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Kraka… read more

Similar categories in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

7. Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks

By: Andrea Lankford

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The realstories behind the scenery of America's national parks For twelve years, Andrea Lankford li… read more

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8. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

By: Mark Bramhall , Michael Finkel

3.90

Format: 5 pages, Audio CD

Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable tr… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bramhall's The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
"I read. That's my form of travel."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

"The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

"He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

"There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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9. The Ghost Bride

By: Yangsze Choo

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infuse… read more

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"If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better"."

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

"The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful"."

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

"I don't keep mistresses; it's far too much trouble. I'm offering to marry you, although I might regret it. And if you think the Lim family disapproved of your marriage, wait until you meet mine."

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

"The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was …"

-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride

10. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

By: David Miller

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A 41-year-old engineer quits his job to hike the Appalachian Trail. This is a true account of his h… read more

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11. Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship

By: Tom Ryan

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan deci… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ryan's Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

12. A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

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13. 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

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
"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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14. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Kidder's Rough Sleepers book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

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16. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

Similar categories in Joe Posnanski's Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • nonfiction
Cover of Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig

17. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

By: Carol Leonnig

4.24

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassina… read more

Similar categories in Carol Leonnig's Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • nonfiction
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18. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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19. Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

By: Dolly Parton

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stori… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Parton's Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I wake up with new dreams everyday."

-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

"I got dreams so big they'd scare some people."

-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

"I just wanted to be different. I wanted to be seen."

-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose, with purpose."

-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

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20. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Graver's Kantika book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

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21. Daughters of Shandong

By: Eve J. Chung

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more

Similar categories in Eve J. Chung's Daughters of Shandong book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

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22. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

Similar categories in Kamala Harris's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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23. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

By: Heather Anish Anderson

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appal… read more

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
"At least now I knew that my heart was wedded to the mountains--to the wild places. It was there, and there alone, that I was whole, contented, and blissful. No relationship, career, or wealth could e…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer." I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. "I can adapt. I am adapting." Another long day was done…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I want to set a record. Not just any record, but an athletic record. One that everyone will know me for. One that my dad will be proud of. I don't know what it will be, but I will do it. I have a lot…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I'd failed to live up to the expectations of my parents. I had not utilized my education in any real way and I'd given up on my marriage. For the first time, I accepted that I could not meet the expe…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

Cover of Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova by Ty Gagne

24. Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova

By: Ty Gagne

4.41

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

On Feb. 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the… read more

Similar categories in Ty Gagne's Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • travel
  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • adventure

25. Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains

By: Sandy Stott

3.96

Format: None pages, ebook

A misread map, a sudden storm, a forgotten headlamp--and suddenly a leisurely hike turns into a tre… read more

Similar categories in Sandy Stott's Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Lost on the Appalachian Trail (Triple Crown Trilogy (AT, PCT, CDT) Book 1) by Kyle Rohrig

26. Lost on the Appalachian Trail (Triple Crown Trilogy (AT, PCT, CDT) Book 1)

By: Kyle Rohrig

4.28

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

*****NEWLY REVISED, EDITED & EXTENDED EDITION as of August 2023***** Join Kyle and his little dog "… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Rohrig's Lost on the Appalachian Trail (Triple Crown Trilogy (AT, PCT, CDT) Book 1) book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts by Mary Claire Haver

27. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her horm… read more

Similar categories in Mary Claire Haver's The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • nonfiction
Cover of ‎The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites by Ty Gagne

28. ‎The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites

By: Ty Gagne

4.59

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

On a mountain somewhere above treeline, in some of the coldest and worst winter conditions imaginab… read more

Similar categories in Ty Gagne's ‎The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • travel
  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
Cover of 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains by Cheryl Suchors

29. 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

By: Cheryl Suchors

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Floundering in her second career, the one she’s always wanted, forty-eight year old Cheryl Suchors … read more

Similar categories in Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of New Hampshire's 52 With a View: A Hiker's Guide by Ken MacGray

30. New Hampshire's 52 With a View: A Hiker's Guide

By: Ken MacGray

4.74

Format: 244 pages, Perfect Paperback

A new (2019) hiking guidebook to the increasingly popular New Hampshire "52 With a View" mountain p… read more

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31. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Marie Presley's From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir book and Cheryl Suchors's 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

8 must-read adventure books like 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains by Cheryl Suchors

Transform Your Habits

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

Ben Montgomery

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Mark Bramhall , Michael Finkel

3.90

Transform Your Habits

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

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

Heather Anish Anderson

4.05

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18 Top nonfiction books like Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray

Transform Your Habits

And So It Goes: Adventures in Television

Linda Ellerbee

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Fat Girl: A True Story

Judith Moore

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

Liz Murray

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Not a Perfect Fit: Stories from Jane's World

Jane A. Schmidt

3.93

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