10 must-read nonfiction books like This Girl Ran by Helen Croydon

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This Girl Ran

By: Helen Croydon

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

If you had told Helen two years ago that she would be getting up at 6 a.m. on Sundays to swim in a …

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Cover of The Night Stalker (Robert Hunter, #3) by Chris Carter

1. The Night Stalker (Robert Hunter, #3)

By: Chris Carter

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An unidentified female body is brought into the Los Angeles County morgue. The cause of death is st… read more

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  • audiobook
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2. Running Like a Girl

By: Alexandra Heminsley , 노지양

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her twenties, Alexandra Heminsley spent more time at the bar than she did in pursuit of athletic… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

3. The Death Sculptor (Robert Hunter, #4)

By: Chris Carter

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor Derek Nicholso… read more

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4. Your Pace or Mine?: What Running Taught Me About Life, Laughter and Coming Last

By: Lisa Jackson

4.14

Format: 152 pages,

From the co-author of the best-selling 'Running Made Easy', with a foreword by running legend Kathr… read more

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5. Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth

By: Adharanand Finn

2.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A dusty road stretches into the distance like a pencil line across the arid landscape. Lions, rhin… read more

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6. Don't Stop Me Now: 26.2 Tales of a Runner's Obsession

By: None , Vassos Alexander

4.57

Format: 102 pages,

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7. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. 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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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. The Trial

By: Rob Rinder

4.24

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more

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  • audiobook
"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."

-Rob Rinder, The Trial

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10. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

By: Imogen Hermes Gowar

3.55

Format: 487 pages, Hardcover

One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly… read more

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  • audiobook
"A whore is a whore is a whore."

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

"For what is she, but a spare daughter?"

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

"I cry out and there is a dull nothing."

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

"All cats are grey with the candles out."

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

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11. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. The Salt Path

By: Raynor Winn

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

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13. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

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  • audiobook
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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14. The Lido

By: Libby Page

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject—and the unlik… read more

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  • audiobook
"She took the loneliness out of being alone."

-Libby Page, The Lido

"In a large townhouse, a family is spread out across its rooms, each living in their own state but under one flag"

-Libby Page, The Lido

"...around puberty when the girls' bodies felt to them like uncomfortable clothes they'd love to wriggle out of. She remembers the transformation: the giggling rabble became a subdued group by the wat…"

-Libby Page, The Lido

"It was rare that she got dressed up and went out, but each time a dinner party or the Christmas dinner with the other library staff came round she would stand in front of the mirror asking George to …"

-Libby Page, The Lido

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15. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

By: Elise Downing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more

Similar categories in Elise Downing's Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans book and Helen Croydon's This Girl Ran

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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16. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

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  • audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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17. A Secret Garden Affair

By: Erica James

4.19

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

July 1981. As the country prepares to celebrate Prince Charles’ wedding to Lady Diana, Libby wants … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Second Chance Store by Lauren Bravo

18. The Second Chance Store

By: Lauren Bravo

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. People Person

By: Candice Carty-Williams

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1) by Jessica  Bull

20. The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1)

By: Jessica Bull

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first in a… read more

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21. Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

By: Alexandra Potter

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and why life isn't … read more

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  • audiobook
"I'm not saying this to be trite or to make you feel better, but believe me when I say this: the people who matter will see you, no matter what."

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

"I don't want to spend whatever time I have left looking backwards. I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing."

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

"Because sometimes happiness isn't a choice. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't find joy. Which is why I've decided to stop beating myself up by desperately seeking happiness and give my…"

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

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22. Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring

By: Davina McCall

4.31

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or sile… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.

By: Clare Pooley

4.37

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

BY THE AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT, THE BRAVE AND FUNNY MEMOIR THA… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Jog On: How Running Saved My Life by Bella Mackie

24. Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

By: Bella Mackie

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Eat, Drink, Run: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad by Bryony Gordon

25. Eat, Drink, Run: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad

By: Bryony Gordon

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Bryony Gordon was not a runner. Yet somehow, as she began to recover from the emotional rollercoas… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Run a Marathon: The Go-to Guide for Anyone and Everyone by Vassos Alexander

26. How to Run a Marathon: The Go-to Guide for Anyone and Everyone

By: Vassos Alexander

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ever been tempted to try a marathon? Maybe you’ve just started running, perhaps you’re gaining conf… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Memoirs of a Former Fatty: How one girl went from fat to fit by Gemma Dale

27. Memoirs of a Former Fatty: How one girl went from fat to fit

By: Gemma Dale

4.01

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

Four years ago, I was obese. I was also so chronically unfit that I couldn’t manage more than one f… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of All About Evie by Matson Taylor

28. All About Evie

By: Matson Taylor

4.08

Format: 320 pages, ebook

EVIE EPWORTH IS TEN YEARS OLDER. BUT IS SHE ANY WISER?! 1972. Ten years on from the events of The M… read more

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29. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of This Girl Ran by Helen Croydon

30. This Girl Ran

By: Helen Croydon

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

If you had told Helen two years ago that she would be getting up at 6 a.m. on Sundays to swim in a … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Crackle Dawn Dragon (The Unmapped Chronicles, #3) by Abi Elphinstone

31. The Crackle Dawn Dragon (The Unmapped Chronicles, #3)

By: Abi Elphinstone

4.39

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Magic, adventure, and a whole new world is waiting to be discovered! The perfect series for adventu… read more

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