11 best-selling sports books like Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey by Susie Petruccelli

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Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

By: Susie Petruccelli

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Susie Petruccelli grew up in a sports-mad, male-dominated family in California, fighting to find he…

If you liked the sports plot in Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey by Susie Petruccelli , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Slash by Anthony Bozza, Slash

1. Slash

By: Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Format: 458 pages, Hardcover

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and r… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Bozza's Slash book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. The guitar is my conscience, too - whenever I've lost my way, i…"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when …"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

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2. The Things We Keep

By: Sally Hepworth

3.95

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

With honesty and true understanding, Sally Hepworth pens this poignant story of one of today's nigh… read more

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"I like it when people remember that I'm a person, not just a person with Alzheimer's."

-Sally Hepworth, The Things We Keep

Cover of What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan

3. What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

By: Kate Fagan

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

*InstantNew York TimesBestseller* The #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness bestseller From … read more

Similar categories in Kate Fagan's What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Forward: A Memoir by Karen Abbott, Abby Wambach

4. Forward: A Memoir

By: Karen Abbott , Abby Wambach

3.24

Format: 0 pages, ebook

Forwardis the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in … read more

Similar categories in Karen Abbott's Forward: A Memoir book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football by Rich Cohen

5. Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football

By: Rich Cohen

4.50

Format: 87 pages,

The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship season For R… read more

Similar categories in Rich Cohen's Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

6. The Empathy Exams: Essays

By: Leslie Jamison

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams: Essays book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Prep

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well… read more

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Cover of Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger

8. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

By: Keri Blakinger

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more

Similar categories in Keri Blakinger's Corrections in Ink: A Memoir book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David  Brooks

9. 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

Similar categories in David Brooks's How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • 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

Cover of Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer by Tyler Staton

10. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

Similar categories in Tyler Staton's Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Atlas Maneuver (Cotton Malone, #18) by Steve Berry

11. The Atlas Maneuver (Cotton Malone, #18)

By: Steve Berry

4.28

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

From celebrated  New York Times  bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adve… read more

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12. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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13. Rise: My Story

By: Lindsey Vonn

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first ever memoir from the most decorated female skier of all time, revealing never-before-told… read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Vonn's Rise: My Story book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
"Part of what I always loved about being on the mountain was the feeling that anything could happen. I would stand there before every run and think anything is possible. I believe that I could win and…"

-Lindsey Vonn, Rise: My Story

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14. Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

By: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

4.36

Format: 304 pages, ebook

For the first time, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback—from tragic person… read more

Similar categories in Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula

15. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

Similar categories in Ramani Durvasula's It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

Cover of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill  Gates

16. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more

Similar categories in Bill Gates's How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
Cover of Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman

17. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

By: Lauren Fleshman

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Fleshman's Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
"It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected."

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attac…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consist…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

"Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the s…"

-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Cover of The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team by Kara Goucher

18. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more

Similar categories in Kara Goucher's The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Where the Light Fell

By: Philip Yancey

4.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the allure of extremist faith, one of today's… read more

Similar categories in Philip Yancey's Where the Light Fell book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke

20. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

By: Meghan O'Rourke

4.03

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more

Similar categories in Meghan O'Rourke's The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Cover of Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals by Laurie Zaleski

21. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By: Laurie Zaleski

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Z… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Zaleski's Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"That was the end of church for Mom. She retained custody of the kids, and Dad got custody of God."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

"Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Cover of The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments by Hadley Vlahos

22. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

By: Hadley Vlahos

4.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more

Similar categories in Hadley Vlahos's The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella

23. A Quiet Life

By: Ethan Joella

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, charact… read more

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"Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a pain…"

-Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

Cover of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow

24. Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

By: Eli Saslow

4.42

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist cha… read more

Similar categories in Eli Saslow's Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"He felt both superior to his classmates and jealous of their relationships."

-Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

Cover of Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman

25. Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

By: Sara Dykman

3.85

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award Sara Dykman made history when she became the first … read more

Similar categories in Sara Dykman's Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"If all of us committed to one footprint of land...the world would be a better place."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

"We call government support to farmers "subsidies." Support for poor people is instead referred to as "welfare."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

"Monarch Watch estimates that each day, 6,000 acres of Monarch breeding habitat in the United States are converted to something else."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

"When I was young, I would ride my bike until I was lost...the realization that I could get where I was going on my own, under my own power, unclocked a bigger world for me."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

Cover of Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby

26. Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

By: Laura Ruby

3.86

Format: 384 pages, ebook

The unforgettable story of two young women—one living, one dead—dealing with loss, desire, and the … read more

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"Girls were punished so hard for their love, so hard, hard enough to break them."

-Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

"She flew higher and higher into the plush and generous darkness, the long forgiving night, until she slipped through a star, a doorway, and heaven welcomed her in."

-Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

"No one is ever ready for something like this. You don't do it because you're ready. You do it because you're weary. And I am weary. I have been weary for too long."

-Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

"Frankie didn't know that the boys opened every letter, any letter, as if it were a dispatch from another world, a kinder one, a pleasant dream they'd once had when they were young. She didn't know th…"

-Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

Cover of Playing the Long Game: A Memoir by Christine Sinclair

27. Playing the Long Game: A Memoir

By: Christine Sinclair

3.94

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Chri… read more

Similar categories in Christine Sinclair's Playing the Long Game: A Memoir book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer by Caitlin  Murray

28. The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer

By: Caitlin Murray

4.46

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team has won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set re… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Murray's The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer by Suzanne Wrack

29. A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer

By: Suzanne Wrack

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and comprehensive history charting the rise, fall, and rise again of women's soccer W… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Wrack's A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives by Kelcey Parker Ervick

30. The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives

By: Kelcey Parker Ervick

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times Book Review, "[R]eaders will certainly want to linger on the beautiful dep… read more

Similar categories in Kelcey Parker Ervick's The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey by Susie Petruccelli

31. Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

By: Susie Petruccelli

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Susie Petruccelli grew up in a sports-mad, male-dominated family in California, fighting to find he… read more

Similar categories in Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey book and Susie Petruccelli's Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • sports

26 Best nonfiction books like Raised a Warrior: One Woman’s Soccer Odyssey by Susie Petruccelli

Transform Your Habits

Slash

Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Transform Your Habits

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

Kate Fagan

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Forward: A Memoir

Karen Abbott , Abby Wambach

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football

Rich Cohen

4.50

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Transform Your Habits

Tommyland

Tommy Lee , Anthony Bozza

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Slash

Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Beatles Anthology

The Beatles , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , George Harrison

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith

Stephen Davis , Aerosmith

4.04

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