Running Man: A Memoir of Ultra-Endurance
By: Charlie Engle
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Charlie Engle’s “fascinating account of the high and low points of his life as an ultramarathon run…
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1. Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
By: Christopher McDougall
3.84
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that … read more
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"Outlaws have to be poised, smart, and independent; they have to cultivate allies, assess risk, and keep their antennae fine-tuned to everyone and everything around them. Outlaws focus on what people …"-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
"We've lulled ourselves into believing that in an emergency, someone else will always come along to rescue us. We've stopped relying on our own wonderfully adaptable bodies; we've forgotten that we ca…"-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
"Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. You don't get time-outs, warm-ups, or bathroom breaks. You may have a headache or be we…"-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
"Daredevils aren't the answer; spinal rehab wards are full of daredevils. Fearlessness doesn't really help, either: when your car breaks down, you don't want the mechanic to say, 'I've never done this…"-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
2. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
By: Laura Hillenbrand
4.38
Format: 475 pages, Hardcover
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeare… read more
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"Without dignity, identity is erased."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
"A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
"Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
"I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled."-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
3. The Extra Mile: One Woman's Personal Journey to Ultra-Running Greatness
By: Pam Reed , Mitch Sisskind
3.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The story of the woman who shocked the running world in 2002 when she won the sport's most grueling… read more
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- nonfiction
4. How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
By: Matt Fitzgerald
4.10
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have know… read more
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"Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose."-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,"-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?"-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage."-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
5. The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
By: Neal Bascomb
4.21
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of huma… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
By: Dean Karnazes
4.00
Format: 50 pages,
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7. 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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8. Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey
By: Dion Leonard
3.86
Format: 568 pages,
A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion. Finding Gobi is… read more
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9. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Flanagan's Run
By: Tom McNab
5.00
Format: 120 pages,
In 1931 Charles C. Flanagan, a grand-scale promoter in the P. T. Barnum vein, organizes a cross-cou… read more
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11. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Cheryl Strayed
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, h… read more
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12. 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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13. Dark Matter
By: Michelle Paver
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more
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14. 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
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15. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- audiobook
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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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- audiobook
"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. The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance
By: Adharanand Finn
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying look inside the wild world of extreme distance running. Once the reserve of only… read more
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- audiobook
18. 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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"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
19. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
By: Alex Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more
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- audiobook
20. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
By: Steve Magness
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness co… read more
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- audiobook
21. Uncanny Valley
By: Anna Wiener
3.64
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digita… read more
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- audiobook
"Tech, for the most part, wasn't progress. It was just business."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"if personalised playlists were full of sad singers and song writers, I could only blame myself for getting algorithm depressed."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"The platforms designed to accommodate and harvest infinite data inspired infinite scroll...people were saying nothing and saying it all the time."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"I felt rising frustration and resentment. I was frustrated because I felt stuck, and I was resentful because I was stuck in an industry that was chipping away at so many things I cared about."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
22. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more
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"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
23. Will
By: Will Smith
4.26
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller! “It's the best memoir I've ever read.” —Oprah Winfrey … read more
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"No paralysis, do analysis. No paralysis, do analysis!"-Will Smith, Will
"...either "know what you're talking about or be quiet". (Will's mom)"-Will Smith, Will
"Learning is really easy when you can feel that your teachers love you."-Will Smith, Will
"The slamming of her bedroom door functioned as a disastrous exclamation point."-Will Smith, Will
24. Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
By: David Goggins
4.44
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
This is not a self-help book. It's a wake-up call! Can't Hurt Me, David Goggins' smash hit memoi… read more
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"Whatever it takes for you to believe that you're better than good enough to achieve your dreams is what you must do. And remember, your greatness is not tied to any outcome. It is found in the valian…"-David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
"We all owe it ourselves to stand for something. Principles give us a foundation — solid ground we can trust and build on as we continue to redefine what's possible in our own lives. Sure, some will b…"-David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
"Back in SEAL training, I loved when people froze up and quit. I felt it elevated me in some way, but that was ego-driven immaturity and poor leadership. These days, I consider my business to make eve…"-David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
25. 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
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- audiobook
"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
26. 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
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- audiobook
27. Reborn on the Run: My Journey from Addiction to Ultramarathons
By: Catra Corbett
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"This is a story you’ll love and never forget."—Christopher McDougall, author, Born to Run and Natu… read more
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- audiobook
28. Running to the Edge: A Band of Misfits and the Guru Who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed
By: Matthew Futterman
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Gripping . . . the narrative is smooth and immediate, almost effortless in its detail, if occasion… read more
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- audiobook
29. Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein
By: Anne Eekhout
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley’… read more
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30. Running Man: A Memoir of Ultra-Endurance
By: Charlie Engle
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Charlie Engle’s “fascinating account of the high and low points of his life as an ultramarathon run… read more
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31. Looks Like We're Running: An Amateur's Companion to Becoming a Marathoner
By: Dustin Riedesel
3.96
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
"Was running a marathon with my wife a smart idea? Certainly not. We had two kids under the age of … read more
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