This Game of Ghosts
By: Joe Simpson
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
When mountain climber Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend and climbing partner Joe Simpson…
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1. Apt Pupil
By: Stephen King
3.92
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a dif… read more
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"What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends."-Stephen King, Apt Pupil
"Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality while they douse screaming children and old women in burning napalm. …"-Stephen King, Apt Pupil
2. The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
By: Tommy Caldwell
3.54
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- nonfiction
- climbing
3. Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
By: Beck Weathers , Stephen G. Michaud
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest,starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes,… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
4. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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- nonfiction
5. A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth
By: Graham Ratcliffe
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The truth about the 1996 Everest disaster by one of its survivors. On the night of May 10-11, 1996,… read more
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- mountaineering
- nonfiction
- memoir
- adventure
6. Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
By: Brian Dickinson
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Alone and blind at 29,000 feet! Former Navy rescue swimmer Brian Dickinson was roughly 1,000 feet f… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
7. Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves
By: Ed Douglas , David Rose , David Rose
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
By any standard, Alison Hargreaves was a world-class mountaineer. In May 1995, she reached the summ… read more
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- biography
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- climbing
8. This Game of Ghosts
By: Joe Simpson
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
When mountain climber Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend and climbing partner Joe Simpson… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- climbing
9. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Kraka… read more
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10. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
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11. The Climb - Tragic Ambitions on Everest
By: Anatoli Boukreev , G. Weston DeWalt
3.68
Format: 528 pages,
The Climbis Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev's account of the harrowing May 1996 Mount Everest … read more
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12. The Last Season
By: Eric Blehm
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
To pick up The Last Seasonis to lose oneself in a mesmerizing story about a place few could survive… read more
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13. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge
4.47
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more
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"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
14. Annapurna
By: Maurice Herzog , Janet Adam Smith , Eric Shipton , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
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15. No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
By: Graham Bowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages,
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most … read more
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16. K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
By: David Roberts , Ed Viesturs
5.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and … read more
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17. No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
By: David Roberts , Ed Viesturs
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes h… read more
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18. Ascent into Hell
By: Fergus White
4.48
Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition
There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with a trouble-free tre… read more
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19. Tough: My Journey to True Power
By: Terry Crews
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews, the deeply personal story of his lifelong obsession with … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"There is no right way to be black or white or anything else. There are literally thousands of different ways to be in this world, so ultimately all you can be is yourself."-Terry Crews, Tough: My Journey to True Power
"A healthy faith empowers you by giving a sense of meaning and purpose to go out and be good and do good in the world. A cult does the opposite. A cult robs you of any agency and power you might have …"-Terry Crews, Tough: My Journey to True Power
"The purpose of being tough is not to attack, but to protect. The purpose of being strong is not to dominate, but to support. The purpose of having power is not to rule, but to serve. What I've learne…"-Terry Crews, Tough: My Journey to True Power
"Learning to live without shame gave me genuine empathy for the first time. I look at every person in the world, and I understand that we've all got issues and we're all in the process of becoming. If…"-Terry Crews, Tough: My Journey to True Power
20. The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny
By: Kurt Diemberger
4.16
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A monumental book … I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved.’ Stephen Venables, Alpine Journal… read more
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- mountaineering
- nonfiction
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21. The Everest Years: The challenge of the world's highest mountain
By: Chris Bonington
4.17
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
Sir Chris Bonington is a household name as a result of his distinguished mountaineering career duri… read more
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- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- climbing
