Grand Adventures
By: Alastair Humphreys
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you…
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1. Green Hills of Africa
By: Ernest Hemingway , Edward Shenton
3.54
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game … read more
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- travel
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"The earth gets tired of being exploited."-Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
"Also I wanted the whisky for itself, because I loved the taste of it and because, being as happy as I could be, it made me feel even better."-Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
2. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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- nonfiction
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
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
4. Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
By: Tami Oldham Ashcraft , Susea McGearhart
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
New available in paperback, a true-life adventure story with everything: page-turning suspense, rem… read more
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- nonfiction
- adventure
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6. Wind, Sand and Stars
By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Lewis Galantière
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- adventure
7. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
8. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
By: Bronnie Ware
4.25
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
After too many years of unfulfilling work, "Bronnie Ware" began searching for a job with heart. Des… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Son
By: Philipp Meyer
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of pow… read more
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10. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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11. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
By: Richard Adams
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more
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12. 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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13. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
14. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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15. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.82
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more
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"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
16. The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More
By: None , None
4.67
Format: 46 pages,
It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of… read more
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17. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more
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18. American Rust
By: Philipp Meyer
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rustis a novel of … read more
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19. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
By: Jessica Bruder
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393356311 can be found here. From the beet fields of Nort… read more
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- nonfiction
"a vast majority of us vandwellers are white. The reasons range from obvious to duh, but then there’s this."-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World ban…"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
20. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- nonfiction
21. The Second Mountain
By: David Brooks
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning an… read more
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"If you can create a social movement that people want to join, they will bend their energies and ideas to you."-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
"People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display."-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
"Thus, the most complete definition of a commitment is this: falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters."-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
"The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal"-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
22. Stillness Is the Key
By: Ryan Holiday
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdo… read more
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"Build a life you don't need to escape from."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Routine, done for long enough and done sincerely enough, becomes more than routine. It becomes ritual—it becomes sanctified and holy."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Put yourself in tough situations. Accept challenges. Familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar. That's how you widen your perspective and your understanding."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
23. Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
By: Brooke McAlary
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Are you constantly striving to keep up with life's busy expectations? It's easy to feel consumed wi… read more
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"Did slowing down and simplifying make our lives easier? Not really. And certainly not in the beginning. Simpler, yes, but not easier. What it did do was put the important things front and center."-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
"Because what is privilege if not an opportunity? Opportunity to make things better for everyone? Opportunity to see inequity and rectify it? Opportunity to take these immense and lucky gifts and make…"-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
"I've realized that in order to leave the world a better place than I found it - to be compassionate and caring - I need to be strong, I need to be vulnerable, I need to be healthy and vital and full …"-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
"permission. You are allowed to make changes to the way you're living. You're allowed to look after yourself. You're allowed to decide what is important to you. And you're allowed to create a life wit…"-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
24. All the Seas of the World
By: Guy Gavriel Kay
4.17
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago an… read more
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- adventure
"Maybe home for some is always the one they lost."-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World
"The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up…"-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World
25. 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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- nonfiction
- outdoors
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"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
26. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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- nonfiction
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
27. The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
By: Paul Millerd
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
With 40k global sales, The Pathless Path has become a surprise best-seller. The book has received a… read more
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28. The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move, Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life
By: Rangan Chatterjee
4.38
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HAPPY MIND, HAPPY LIFE 'Small changes make a big differ… read more
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29. Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
By: Justin Farrell
3.69
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilde… read more
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- nonfiction
"This scholarly shortfall did not happen by chance. Part of it has to do with particular discomforts characteristics of left-leaning academic social scientists. Conducting high-quality ethnographic or…"-Justin Farrell, Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
30. 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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- nonfiction
31. Grand Adventures
By: Alastair Humphreys
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you… read more
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