18 must-read nonfiction books like Drive Nacho Drive: A Journey from the American Dream to the End of the World by Brad Van Orden

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Drive Nacho Drive: A Journey from the American Dream to the End of the World

By: Brad Van Orden

4.02

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

On an afternoon just like many before it, Brad Van Orden sat at his desk. When a coworker meandered…

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1. Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)

By: Lee Child

4.19

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they… read more

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  • adventure
"I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence."

-Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)

"It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of g…"

-Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)

Cover of Mud (Chronicles of the Third Realm #1) by E.J. Wenstrom

2. Mud (Chronicles of the Third Realm #1)

By: E.J. Wenstrom

3.95

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Torn apart by war and abandoned by the gods, only one hope remains to save humanity. But the savior… read more

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3. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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4. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

By: Aldo Leopold

4.30

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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5. Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise

By: Gwynn White , Andrew St. Pierre

4.06

Format: None pages,

A humorous romp through the African wilds . . . Tired of mortgage and car payments, thirty-somethin… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

6. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress, #1)

By: Julie C. Dao

4.15

Format: 130 pages,

An East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become… read more

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7. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

By: Dean King

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Rea… read more

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8. The Secret (Irin Chronicles, #3)

By: Elizabeth Hunter

3.91

Format: 434 pages, ebook

Only when the darkness falls can you see the light of the stars. For thousands of years, the scribe… read more

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9. 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

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
"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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10. Walking Home: Common Sense and Other Misadventures On the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Rick Rogers

4.31

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

-A Heartwarming Adventure! - 2022 Best Book Award Winner in Travel Guides & Essays! Can a comicall… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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11. Antarctica Station

By: A.G. Riddle

4.02

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In Antarctica, a groundbreaking experiment will change everything. Dr. Laura Reynolds had it all… read more

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  • adventure
Cover of To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins

12. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycle… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
"When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning. I…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I was in the zone, each day biking farther than the last, and becoming ever more accustomed to my solitude. An entire day passed without me speaking to a single human. I did speak though, just to the…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

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13. The Year We Ruined Our Lives: A Family Road Trip Through Mexico and Central America

By: Paul Carlino

4.24

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

Paul and his wife Rebecca had it all. Good jobs, healthy kids, their dream house, and the nagging f… read more

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14. The Solar War (The Long Winter, #2)

By: A.G. Riddle

4.26

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

We thought the war was over.We were wrong.They decimated Earth during the Long Winter.Now the grid … read more

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15. Monkeys on the Road: One family's vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life

By: Mary Hollendoner

4.60

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A family road trip adventure from California to Argentina, finishing up just a few months ago in mi… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
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16. The Crinkle Crankle Wall

By: Sabina Ostrowska

4.11

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

The Crinkle Crankle Wall is an extremely entertaining account of a youngish couple’s attempt to liv… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. The Seamstress of Sardinia

By: Bianca Pitzorno

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, fami… read more

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Cover of Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone by Peter  Conti

18. Only When I Step On It: One Man's Inspiring Journey to Hike The Appalachian Trail Alone

By: Peter Conti

4.34

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

What if you could experience the thrill of an epic voyage through insurmountable obstacles without … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
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19. Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

By: Joan M. Griffin

4.44

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, an… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
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20. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

By: Dani Shapiro

3.89

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It is the nature of trauma that, when left untreated, it deepens over time."

-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

"Always lists to be made, as if writing items in neat vertical rows might stave off randomness and chaos."

-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

"The hidden disaster was secrecy, the pretense and magical thinking, the certainty that no one ever needed to know."

-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

"It is a measure of true adulthood that we are able to imagine our parents as the people they may have been before us."

-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Cover of North To Alaska: The True Story of An epic, 16,000-mile cycle journey the length of the Americas by Trevor   Lund

21. North To Alaska: The True Story of An epic, 16,000-mile cycle journey the length of the Americas

By: Trevor Lund

4.54

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

“An engaging and beautifully written book” “Highly recommended and rewarding reading and so much mo… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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22. The Call of the Last Frontier: The True Story of a Woman's Twenty-Year Alaska Adventure

By: Melissa L. Cook

4.43

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

"I went to Alaska searching for a job and found an adventure!" —Melissa L. Cook It’s all here—livi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of 150 Days: The true story of how I lost 88 pound and became a mountain goat on the Pacific Crest Trail by Lise Kristine Viken

23. 150 Days: The true story of how I lost 88 pound and became a mountain goat on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Lise Kristine Viken

4.08

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

The Pacific Crest Trail will change your life... Lise Kristine Viken was an overweight nicotine sl… read more

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24. Tuk-Tuk for Two

By: Adam Fletcher

4.21

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

“The race…” She said. “India. Were you serious?”About racing a tuk-tuk one thousand kilometres thro… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Where the Wind Blows: A Family’s One Year Escape from Routine Life to A Sailing Adventure in the Mediterranean (Sailing Adventures Book 2) by Heyward Coleman

25. Where the Wind Blows: A Family’s One Year Escape from Routine Life to A Sailing Adventure in the Mediterranean (Sailing Adventures Book 2)

By: Heyward Coleman

4.30

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Squeezed out of his company in mid-career, Heyward finds himself unsure of what to do next.Put the … read more

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26. Winds of Skilak

By: Bonnie Rose Ward

4.31

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

FIRST PLACE - JOURNEY AWARDS for Narrative Non-Fiction Chanticleer Book Reviews 2015 WINNER - NE… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of Way to Go: Two of the World's Great Motorcycle Journeys by Geoff Hill

27. Way to Go: Two of the World's Great Motorcycle Journeys

By: Geoff Hill

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A humorous travelogue of two epic motorcycle journeys, from Delhi to Belfast and Route 66 read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Drive Nacho Drive: A Journey from the American Dream to the End of the World by Brad Van Orden

28. Drive Nacho Drive: A Journey from the American Dream to the End of the World

By: Brad Van Orden

4.02

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

On an afternoon just like many before it, Brad Van Orden sat at his desk. When a coworker meandered… read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • travelogue
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29. Natural Selection

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.69

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

When her boyfriend bails at the last minute, a New York woman embarks on their couples’ cruise alon… read more

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  • travel
Cover of We Will Be Free: Overlanding In Africa and Around South America by Graeme Robert Bell

30. We Will Be Free: Overlanding In Africa and Around South America

By: Graeme Robert Bell

4.16

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

We Will Be Free chronicles the challenges faced by the Bell family as they extract themselves from … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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31. Overlanding the Americas - La Lucha

By: Graeme Robert Bell

4.53

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

La Lucha, the sequel to the reader acclaimed, We Will Be Free, is the story of one family's determi… read more

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12 Top adventure books like Drive Nacho Drive: A Journey from the American Dream to the End of the World by Brad Van Orden

Transform Your Habits

Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)

Lee Child

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

4.57

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

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4.02

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Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

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Ethan Gallogly

4.31

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Joan M. Griffin

4.44

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