13 Top memoir books like The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun by Catrina Davies

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The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

By: Catrina Davies

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

“Read this book if you have ever loved and lost. . . . It will inspire you.” —Monique Roffey, autho…

If you liked the memoir plot in The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun by Catrina Davies , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. A Year of Marvellous Ways

By: Sarah Winman

3.87

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for … read more

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"He dived into a bottomless pit of sleep"

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"You have to risk failure to become excellent."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"Coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

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2. The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's The Places in Between book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

By: Kathryn Mannix

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey throu… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Mannix's With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

4. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York TimesBusiness Bestseller #1 Wall StreetJournalBusiness Bestseller #1 Washington Postbe… read more

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5. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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6. Cut and Thirst

By: Margaret Atwood

3.15

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, a… read more

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7. 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

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's The Salt Path book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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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8. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. 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 Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. The Wild Silence

By: Raynor Winn

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's The Wild Silence book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

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11. Because of You

By: Dawn French

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock . . . midnight. The old millennium turns into the new. In the… read more

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12. Everything Under

By: Daisy Johnson

3.51

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than… read more

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"Death has worn you smooth as a stone."

-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

"The understanding pity of others is a hole."

-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

"Anything can be lost if you try hard enough."

-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

"Forgetting is, I think, a form of protection."

-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

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13. You Deserve Good Gelato (Dk Eyewitness)

By: Kacie Rose

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In her inimitably funny and feel-good way, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly hones… read more

Similar categories in Kacie Rose's You Deserve Good Gelato (Dk Eyewitness) book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

By: James Rebanks

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more

Similar categories in James Rebanks's Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

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15. The Witches of Vardø

By: Anya Bergman

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcra… read more

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16. The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

By: Neil Ansell

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The great gift of solitude is that although you might think that it provokes introspection, actually the very opposite is true - you can lose all sense of self."

-Neil Ansell, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

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17. The Day the Germans Came

By: Ella Gyland

4.18

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by the incredible true story of how the people of Denmark saved their Jewish neighbours du… read more

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18. Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline

By: Christian Lewis

4.41

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

The No. 1 Sunday Times BestsellerWalking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the… read more

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. A Walk from the Wild Edge

By: Jake Tyler

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his l… read more

Similar categories in Jake Tyler's A Walk from the Wild Edge book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I pointed to a main road that, unbeknownst to us, had been running parallel to the valley the entire time. We were now at a place called ‘Whiteway’s Lodge’, next to a big roundabout that connects the…"

-Jake Tyler, A Walk from the Wild Edge

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20. The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel

By: David Gange

3.93

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

An original snapshot of the beauty of the British Isles, as captured by a brand new voice in nature… read more

Similar categories in David Gange's The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • nonfiction
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21. The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

By: Catrina Davies

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

“Read this book if you have ever loved and lost. . . . It will inspire you.” —Monique Roffey, autho… read more

Similar categories in Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun book and Catrina Davies's The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun

  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Rory Stewart

3.89

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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

Kathryn Mannix

3.86

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Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

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Raynor Winn

4.02

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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Simon Armitage

3.73

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De Camino

Anya Niewierra

4.00

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David Nicholls

4.08

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Richard Osman

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