25 Top nonfiction books like Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe by Becky Wade

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Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

By: Becky Wade

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

From elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the story of her year-long exploration o…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe by Becky Wade , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

1. 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

Similar categories in Christopher McDougall's Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • health
Cover of Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work by Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun

2. Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

By: Tim Gunn , Ada Calhoun

4.17

Format: 78 pages,

On the runway of life, Tim Gunn is the perfect life coach. You've watched him mentor talented desig… read more

Similar categories in Tim Gunn's Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons by Bryon Powell, Eric Grossman

3. Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons

By: Bryon Powell , Eric Grossman

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

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  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • health
Cover of Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe by Becky  Wade

4. Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

By: Becky Wade

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

From elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the story of her year-long exploration o… read more

Similar categories in Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports

5. A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York

By: None

4.28

Format: 320 pages,

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6. Boston Bound: A 7-Year Journey to Overcome Mental Barriers and Qualify for the Boston Marathon

By: Elizabeth Clor

4.25

Format: None pages,

Have you ever wanted something so badly that your own mind became your biggest obstacle? Elizabeth … read more

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7. 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower

By: Matt Fitzgerald , Robert Johnson

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

TRAIN EASIER TO RUN FASTER This revolutionary training method has been embraced by elite runners--w… read more

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8. Once a Runner

By: John L. Parker Jr.

4.20

Format: 251 pages,

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9. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more

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10. Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship

By: Tom Ryan

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan deci… read more

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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

Similar categories in Scott Jurek's North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"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

Cover of The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance by Adharanand Finn

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

Similar categories in Adharanand Finn's The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex  Hutchinson

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

Similar categories in Alex Hutchinson's Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • health
Cover of A Runner's High: My Life in Motion by Dean Karnazes

14. A Runner's High: My Life in Motion

By: Dean Karnazes

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“A Runner’s High wakes up the appetite to run long distances. Dean takes us on a lifelong journey o… read more

Similar categories in Dean Karnazes's A Runner's High: My Life in Motion book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career by Meb Keflezighi

15. 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

By: Meb Keflezighi

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in … read more

Similar categories in Meb Keflezighi's 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"To my classmates, teammates, teachers, coaches, and friends, and the people in the medical field who encouraged and challenged me to be my best in every aspect of life."

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

"Un mod prin care maratonul se deosebește de alte curse îl reprezintă faptul că lecțiile lui au deseori paralele cu restul vieții tale. Răbdarea necesară ca să stăpânești maratonul este o abilitate tr…"

-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

Cover of Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall

16. 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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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
"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

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17. Bravey

By: Alexi Pappas

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

"Renaissance runner" (New York Times) Alexi Pappas--Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker and writer-… read more

Similar categories in Alexi Pappas's Bravey book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
"Headed to the moon not now but soon."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A life can’t be replicated and it doesn’t need to be."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A dream come true unfolds very very gradually then all at once."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

Cover of The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team by Kara Goucher

18. 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

Similar categories in Kara Goucher's The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden

19. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step by Ryan Hall

20. Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

By: Ryan Hall

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Journey with Olympian and American half marathon record holder Ryan Hall as he reflects on the joys… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Hall's Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age by Matt Fitzgerald

21. Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age

By: Matt Fitzgerald

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Matt Fitzgerald has already made a name for himself in the endurance sport community with books lik… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of No Ordinary Assignment by Jane Ferguson

22. No Ordinary Assignment

By: Jane Ferguson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty o… read more

Similar categories in Jane Ferguson's No Ordinary Assignment book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory by Deena Kastor

23. Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

By: Deena Kastor

4.36

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a … read more

Similar categories in Deena Kastor's Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"You can't show love by hurting others"

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"What I needed in the moment was a family vacation."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"I saw perseverance, determination, and fearlessness."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

"You don't run with your feet- you run with your heart."

-Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory

Cover of Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes by Christine Yu

24. Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

By: Christine Yu

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“ Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and dis… read more

Similar categories in Christine Yu's Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of The Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal

25. The Incomplete Book of Running

By: Peter Sagal

3.86

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s beloved show Wait Wait..Don’t Tell Me and a popular columnist for Ru… read more

Similar categories in Peter Sagal's The Incomplete Book of Running book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"Perhaps you would like to start running. You never have tried before, or you did and you hated it, and now you wonder how to begin moving in a way that will keep you going. Get up. Start. Go. Move. T…"

-Peter Sagal, The Incomplete Book of Running

"If there is any true value in running as a sport, it is that it is a great leveler. Runners don't gear up, armoring ourselves like football players; we strip down to the minimum and empty our hands a…"

-Peter Sagal, The Incomplete Book of Running

Cover of Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia by Michael  Crawley

26. Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia

By: Michael Crawley

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021 'Inspiring' The Guardian 'Excellent' Runner's Wo… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crawley's Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • health
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant

27. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

By: Howard Bryant

4.23

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that… read more

Similar categories in Howard Bryant's Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home by Frances Mayes

28. A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

By: Frances Mayes

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Much about home is imagining home"

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

"I will translate myself into a new language."

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

"The first thing to know about living in an old house: The walls are alive."

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

"As much as you own an old house and garden, it owns you. There's a continuum in progress."

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

Cover of There is No Wall by Allie Bailey

29. There is No Wall

By: Allie Bailey

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

There Is No Wall is ultrarunner Allie Bailey's brutally honest and sometimes shocking account of al… read more

Similar categories in Allie Bailey's There is No Wall book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime by Bernd Heinrich

30. Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime

By: Bernd Heinrich

3.50

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running t… read more

Similar categories in Bernd Heinrich's Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • fitness
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance by Matt Fitzgerald

31. Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

By: Matt Fitzgerald

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attemp… read more

Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance book and Becky Wade's Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir

19 Top biography books like Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe by Becky Wade

Transform Your Habits

Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

Tim Gunn , Ada Calhoun

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe

Becky Wade

3.98

Transform Your Habits

North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

Scott Jurek

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance

Adharanand Finn

4.37

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Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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