24 must-read nonfiction books like Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts

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Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

By: Suzanne Roberts

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished c…

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Cover of Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail by Melanie Radzicki McManus

1. Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail

By: Melanie Radzicki McManus

3.76

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

In thirty-six thrilling days, Melanie Radzicki McManus hiked 1,100 miles around Wisconsin, landing … read more

Similar categories in Melanie Radzicki McManus's Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Carrot Quinn

2. Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Carrot Quinn

4.10

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and sh… read more

Similar categories in Carrot Quinn's Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"I’ve spent every waking moment nurturing and maintaining my relationship with this eighteen-inch by 2660-mile ribbon of dirt."

-Carrot Quinn, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

"I’ve been eating this shit for so long that I’ve transcended the need to actually enjoy my food. No more desires. Eat to live, not live to eat."

-Carrot Quinn, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cover of Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning: Training for an Ultramarathon from 50K to 100 Miles and Beyond by Hal Koerner

3. Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning: Training for an Ultramarathon from 50K to 100 Miles and Beyond

By: Hal Koerner

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Ultramarathon doesn't leave much room for mistakes. Don't learn the hard way, get a jump on trainin… read more

Similar categories in Hal Koerner's Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning: Training for an Ultramarathon from 50K to 100 Miles and Beyond book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
Cover of Forty Years in the Wilderness by Dolly Faulkner

4. Forty Years in the Wilderness

By: Dolly Faulkner

3.86

Format: 568 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios by Holly Conklin FitzGerald

5. Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios

By: Holly Conklin FitzGerald

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Holly FitzGerald and her husband, Fitz--married less than two years--set out on a yearlong honeymoo… read more

Similar categories in Holly Conklin FitzGerald's Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure

6. I Hike

By: Lawton Grinter

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

"I never set out to hike 10,000 miles. It just sort of happened over the course of a decade." And s… read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts

7. Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

By: Suzanne Roberts

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished c… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • outdoors
  • nature

8. Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

By: Mark Woods

3.50

Format: 121 pages,

"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity … read more

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9. Becoming Odyssa: Epic Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

By: Jennifer Pharr Davis

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn… read more

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10. Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail

By: Paul V. Stutzman

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

After losing his wife to breast cancer, Paul Stutzman decided to make some big changes. He quit his… 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. Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

By: Aspen Matis

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada… read more

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13. The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

By: None

3.20

Format: 192 pages,

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of ev… 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. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink by Nita Sweeney

16. Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink

By: Nita Sweeney

3.73

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Run your way to better mental health It’s never too late to chase your dreams: Before she discov… read more

Similar categories in Nita Sweeney's Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I doubted running would permanently heal my depression, but I craved the runner's rush. In the hours following a run, my arms and legs tingled. My chest and throat opened. The dark heaviness lifted, …"

-Nita Sweeney, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink

Cover of Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing

17. 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 Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail by Heather Anish Anderson

18. Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail

By: Heather Anish Anderson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail i… read more

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman

19. Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

By: Sara Dykman

3.85

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award Sara Dykman made history when she became the first … read more

Similar categories in Sara Dykman's Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"If all of us committed to one footprint of land...the world would be a better place."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

"We call government support to farmers "subsidies." Support for poor people is instead referred to as "welfare."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

"Monarch Watch estimates that each day, 6,000 acres of Monarch breeding habitat in the United States are converted to something else."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

"When I was young, I would ride my bike until I was lost...the realization that I could get where I was going on my own, under my own power, unclocked a bigger world for me."

-Sara Dykman, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

Cover of Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) by Patrick     Taylor

20. Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1)

By: Patrick Taylor

4.08

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

“Lost on Purpose” is the non-fiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Taylor's Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: Mexico to Canada by Bruce Buck Nelson

21. Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: Mexico to Canada

By: Bruce Buck Nelson

4.35

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

One April morning I left the Mexico border and walked north on the Pacific Crest Trail. For five mo… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Buck Nelson's Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: Mexico to Canada book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton by Kevin Grange

22. Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton

By: Kevin Grange

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Grange's Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson

23. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

By: Heather Anish Anderson

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appal… read more

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"At least now I knew that my heart was wedded to the mountains--to the wild places. It was there, and there alone, that I was whole, contented, and blissful. No relationship, career, or wealth could e…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer." I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. "I can adapt. I am adapting." Another long day was done…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I want to set a record. Not just any record, but an athletic record. One that everyone will know me for. One that my dad will be proud of. I don't know what it will be, but I will do it. I have a lot…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I'd failed to live up to the expectations of my parents. I had not utilized my education in any real way and I'd given up on my marriage. For the first time, I accepted that I could not meet the expe…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

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24. The High Sierra: A Love Story

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

4.27

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more

Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's The High Sierra: A Love Story book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

25. Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

By: Barney Scout Mann

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North , legendary tr… read more

Similar categories in Barney Scout Mann's Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Walk Sleep Repeat by Stephen    Reynolds

26. Walk Sleep Repeat

By: Stephen Reynolds

3.91

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

The continued musings of a hapless wanderer. Younger than Bill Bryson, smaller than Levison Wood, a… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Reynolds's Walk Sleep Repeat book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Michael   Tyler

27. Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Michael Tyler

3.90

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Bored and fed up with life, staring down a 50th birthday, Mike Tyler was looking for a change. Life… read more

Similar categories in Michael Tyler's Walking Thru: A Couple's Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
Cover of Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer by Gail Francis

28. Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer

By: Gail Francis

3.86

Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition

Just before her 40th birthday, Gail Francis quit her perfectly good job and set out to hike one of … read more

Similar categories in Gail Francis's Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail by David  Smart

29. The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

By: David Smart

4.32

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

If your life led to a dead-end, in which direction would you walk? Disillusioned by the run-in-… read more

Similar categories in David Smart's The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors by Gail Muller

30. Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors

By: Gail Muller

4.08

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Gail Muller was told she’d be in a wheelchair by the age of forty. At forty-one she set out to hike… read more

Similar categories in Gail Muller's Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • nature
Cover of Alone in Wonderland by Christine   Reed

31. Alone in Wonderland

By: Christine Reed

3.95

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Alone in Wonderland is a story about backpacking. But it's also a story about Independence, Love, G… read more

Similar categories in Christine Reed's Alone in Wonderland book and Suzanne Roberts's Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature

18 best-selling adventure books like Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts

Transform Your Habits

Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail

Melanie Radzicki McManus

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios

Holly Conklin FitzGerald

3.90

I Hike

Lawton Grinter

3.76

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14 best-selling audiobook books like Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton by Kevin Grange

Transform Your Habits

My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor

Stephan Talty , Brendan McDonough

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

Lee H. Whittlesey

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

Cory Franklin

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

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