Have Fun Out There Or Not: The Semi-Rad Running Essays
By: Brendan Leonard
4.49
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
When Brendan Leonard decided to get serious about running in 2015, it only lasted a few weeks-the "…
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1. The Revenant
By: Michael Punke
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers o… read more
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"Le géant poussa un dernier soupir et mourut à la clarté des étoiles de la plaine."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant"-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
2. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Outsidemagazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boa… 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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4. Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft
By: Thor Heyerdahl
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
Five men in search of a mythical hero journey from Peru to Polynesia in this classic account of nau… read more
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- nonfiction
5. 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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6. Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes
By: Alastair Humphreys
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' Geographical Adventure - something that's new and exhilarating, o… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team
By: Chris Lear
3.87
Format: 288 pages,
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8. Why I Wake Early
By: Mary Oliver
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snak… read more
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9. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- humor
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10. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
By: Michael Easter
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and re… read more
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- nonfiction
11. 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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"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
12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
By: Rainn Wilson
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
**New York Times Bestseller** Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of th… read more
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- nonfiction
16. 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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- nonfiction
- essays
"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
17. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- essays
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
18. Running with Sherman
By: Christopher McDougall
4.25
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
A heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in Ame… read more
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"Brain opioids are so powerful that if you exercise, you can lower your “mental health burden"-Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman
"Normally, up to 75% of all prisoners who are released will be arrested aging within five years. But among prisoners who’ve worked with animals, the recidivism rate tends to be as low as 10 percent. P…"-Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman
19. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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- nonfiction
20. 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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"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
21. 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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22. Choosing to Run: A Memoir
By: Des Linden
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more
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23. Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship (Gift Edition)
By: Jonathan Gibson
4.69
Format: 352 pages, Imitation Leather
A 31-Day Liturgical Style Devotional, Now in a Timeless Gift Edition Every Christian knows the impo… read more
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24. Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond
By: Stacy T. Sims
4.27
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
A comprehensive, physiology-based guide to peak performance for active women approaching or experie… read more
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25. Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level
By: Matt Fitzgerald
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Cutting-edge advice on how to achieve your personal best, for everyone from casual runners to ultra… read more
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26. Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers
By: Steve House
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Dovetailing on the success of Training for the New Alpinism and Patagonia’s own emphasis on all mou… read more
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27. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
By: Maggie Mertens
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning sports journalist Maggie Mertens tells the propulsive, edge-of-your-seat story of how… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
29. Have Fun Out There Or Not: The Semi-Rad Running Essays
By: Brendan Leonard
4.49
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
When Brendan Leonard decided to get serious about running in 2015, it only lasted a few weeks-the "… read more
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30. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more
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31. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.62
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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