9 Best biography books like Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

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Into the Wild

By: Jon Krakauer

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Krakauer’s page-turning bestseller explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the lar…

"Happiness [is] only real when shared"

-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong."

-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure."

-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you."

-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

If you liked the biography plot in Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

By: Laura Hillenbrand

4.38

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeare… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Without dignity, identity is erased."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

"A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

"Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

"I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

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2. The Kite Runner

By: Khaled Hosseini

4.35

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and … read more

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  • school
"Bareh tu hazar dafa!"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"It hurts to say that,"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Sad stories make good books"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"For you, a thousand times over"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

By: Erik Larson

4.00

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold."

-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

"No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck."

-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

"How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago."

-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham"

-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

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4. The Wild Truth: A Memoir

By: Carine McCandless

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Catcher in the Rye

By: J.D. Salinger

3.80

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school... Fleei… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"Sleep tight, ya morons!"

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"People never notice anything."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"Mothers are all slightly insane."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

7. The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career… read more

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  • school
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8. Bossypants

By: Tina Fey

2.74

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl wit… read more

Similar categories in Tina Fey's Bossypants book and Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. Night (The Night Trilogy #1)

By: Elie Wiesel , Marion Wiesel

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

An autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration c… read more

Similar categories in Elie Wiesel's Night (The Night Trilogy #1) book and Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild

  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • school
  • nonfiction
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10. Outliers: The Story of Success

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

11. To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Harper Lee

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that … read more

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12. Of Mice and Men

By: John Steinbeck

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifter… read more

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13. The Glass Castle

By: Jeannette Walls

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the … read more

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14. Eat, Pray, Love

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

4.14

Format: None pages,

A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure… read more

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15. 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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16. The Diary of a Young Girl

By: Anne Frank , Eleanor Roosevelt , None

4.19

Format: 283 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diar… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • school
  • nonfiction
"Misfortunes never come singly."

-Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"Paper is more patient than man."

-Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"A quiet conscience makes one strong!"

-Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."

-Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

17. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Rebecca Skloot

4.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henriet… read more

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18. 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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19. 1984

By: George Orwell

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother i… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • audiobook
"Power is not a means; it is an end."

-George Orwell, 1984

"To die hating them, that was freedom."

-George Orwell, 1984

"In the face of pain there are no heroes."

-George Orwell, 1984

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

-George Orwell, 1984

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20. Educated

By: Tara Westover

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mounta… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"An education is not so much about making a living as making a person."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut."

-Tara Westover, Educated

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21. Into the Wild

By: Jon Krakauer

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Krakauer’s page-turning bestseller explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the lar… read more

Similar categories in Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild book and Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild

  • survival
  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • school
  • adventure
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Happiness [is] only real when shared"

-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong."

-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure."

-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you."

-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

8 best-selling audiobook books like Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Transform Your Habits

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Truth: A Memoir

Carine McCandless

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Bossypants

Tina Fey

2.74

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11 must-read audiobook books like Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Transform Your Habits

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke , James Noel Smith

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson , None

3.88

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