The Dirtbag's Guide to Life: Eternal Truth for Hiker Trash, Ski Bums, and Vagabonds
By: Tim Mathis
3.96
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Forget picket fences. Live your best life. Sleep in the dirt. In the spirit of classics like Rolf…
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1. Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Carrot Quinn
4.10
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and sh… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
"I’ve spent every waking moment nurturing and maintaining my relationship with this eighteen-inch by 2660-mile ribbon of dirt."-Carrot Quinn, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
"I’ve been eating this shit for so long that I’ve transcended the need to actually enjoy my food. No more desires. Eat to live, not live to eat."-Carrot Quinn, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
2. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
By: Piers Paul Read
4.13
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-p… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
"There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense co…"-Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
"The closeness of the relationship between Fito Strauch, Eduardo Strauch and Daniel Fernandez gave them an immediate advantage over all the other in withstanding not the physical but the mental suffer…"-Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
3. Running Man
By: Charlie Engle
3.70
Format: 640 pages, ebook
Charlie Engle's "fascinating account of the high and low points of his life as an ultramarathon run… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Hobo Handbook: A Field Guide to Living by Your Own Rules
By: Josh Mack
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
No one said life on the road would be easy. Navigating the rails, mapping bus lines, and hitching r… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
5. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
By: Donald Miller
3.43
Format: 331 pages,
"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God di… read more
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6. Appalachian Trials: A Psychological and Emotional Guide to Successfully Thru-Hiking The Appalachian Trail
By: Zach Davis
3.85
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Each year, it is estimated that more than 2,000 people set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, … read more
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7. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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8. The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals—and Other Forgotten Skills
By: Tristan Gooley
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Turn Every Walk into a Game of Detection When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside,… read more
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9. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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10. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more
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11. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
By: Rolf Potts
3.55
Format: 320 pages,
Vagabondingis about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two ye… read more
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12. Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
By: Mark Adams
3.64
Format: 211 pages,
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13. Clarity & Connection
By: Yung Pueblo
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on un… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"taking a moment to figure out how you really feel instead of letting old patterns decide for you is one of the most authentic things you can do"-Yung Pueblo, Clarity & Connection
"the goal is not to heal and then begin your life the goal is to embrace healing as a life long journey and allow genuine connections to emerge organically along the way."-Yung Pueblo, Clarity & Connection
14. Inward
By: Yung Pueblo
4.22
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to un… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"i can only give to you what i have already given to myself i can only understand the world as much as i understand myself"-Yung Pueblo, Inward
"to expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. it is to ask a river to give us nourishment without di…"-Yung Pueblo, Inward
15. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
By: Michael Pollan
3.72
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more
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- nonfiction
16. 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
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- travel
- nonfiction
"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
17. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
By: Rich Roll
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Finding Ultra is an incredible but true a… read more
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- nonfiction
"I loved the pain, and the pain loved me back."-Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
18. Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything
By: Sally McRae
4.48
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
A REAL LOOK AT STRENGTH Known worldwide for her mental fortitude, hardcore training tactics, and… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
By: Kevin Kelly
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The end is almost always the beginning of something better."-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
"When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws."-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
"The very best thing you can do for your kids is to love your spouse."-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
"Don’t treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are."-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
20. Into the Wild
By: Jon Krakauer
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
Krakauer’s page-turning bestseller explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the lar… read more
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- nonfiction
"Happiness [is] only real when shared"-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
"It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong."-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure."-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you."-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
21. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
By: Simone Stolzoff
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more
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- nonfiction
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
22. Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map
By: Rick Ridgeway
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild At the beginning of his memoir Life Liv… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Nowhere for Very Long
By: Brianna Madia
4.11
Format: 304 pages, ebook
In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more
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"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long
24. That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
By: Mark Kenyon
4.10
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past… read more
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"There are some wild places across our nation's public lands that physically move you, creating a tightening in the chest, a loss of breath, or a tingling along the spine."-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
"It was easy to see what Bundy and anti-public-land politicians really wanted: for public lands to be given to certain people. People who want land for their own gains--to mine it, graze it, drill it,…"-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
"Far from the luxuries of home, camp life forces a slower, more thoughtful approach to living. Mornings are savored. Coffee is sipped rather than drained. Making meals is less a chore and more an even…"-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
"As much as I love hiking and hunting and fishing and camping, I might love the meals that follow just as much. The post-adventure meal is akin to a religious experience. It just cannot be beat. Every…"-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
25. A Wild Idea
By: Jonathan Franklin
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In 1991, Doug Tompkins abandoned his comfortable life in San Francisco and flew 6,500 miles south t… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
26. Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
By: Christopher Ryan
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Progress, the basic illusion of our age, is exhausted. Kids typically no longer expect their lives … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"When you're going in the wrong direction, progress is the last thing you need."-Christopher Ryan, Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
"The depiction of human nature embedded in the NPP isn't science; it's a marketing campaign for the status quo. The politics of perpetual fear is corrosive to our well-being and our innate capacities …"-Christopher Ryan, Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
27. Cultured: The Epic Story of Cheese
By: Janet Fletcher
3.74
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Some of us go weak in the knees for silky, buttery Brie. Some of us consume stinky, washed-rind ch… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1)
By: Patrick Taylor
4.08
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
“Lost on Purpose” is the non-fiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
29. On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
By: Paul Theroux
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then takes the back r… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
"In the casual opinion of most Americans, I am an old man, and therefore of little account, past my best, fading in a pathetic diminuendo while flashing his AARP card; like the old in America generall…"-Paul Theroux, On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
30. The Simulation Hypothesis
By: Rizwan Virk
3.75
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
The Simulation Hypothesis, by best-selling author, renowned MIT computer scientist and Silicon Vall… read more
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31. The Dirtbag's Guide to Life: Eternal Truth for Hiker Trash, Ski Bums, and Vagabonds
By: Tim Mathis
3.96
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Forget picket fences. Live your best life. Sleep in the dirt. In the spirit of classics like Rolf… read more
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