The Best Running Books for Adventure Lovers

Our ever-growing list of what we consider to be the BEST running and adventure books… EVER.
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Welcome to our ever-growing list of what we consider to be the BEST running books for adventure lovers… EVER! We’ve been compiling this list based on books we have read and also books that our trusted community of running and adventure lovers rate highly.

Grand Trail – Frederic Berg & Alexis Berg

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Born to Run – Christopher McDougall

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Ultra Marathon Man – Dean Karnazes

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Interview with Dean Karnazes

Eat & Run – Scott Jurek

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Finding Gobi – Dion Leonard

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Finding Gobi Book Review / Runner Interview: Dion Leonard

The Road to Sparta – Dean Karnazes

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Interview with Dean Karnazes

Run or Die – Kilian Jornet

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Finding Ultra – Rich Roll

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Alone on the Wall – Alex Honnold

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Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

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Once a Runner – John L. Parker Jr.

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Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer

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Touching the Void – Joe Simpson

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Eiger Dreams – Jon Krakauer

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Natural Born Heroes – Christopher McDougall

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Fat Man to Green Man – Ira Rainey

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Runner Interview: Ira Rainey / Still Not Bionic Book Review

Trail Blazer – Ryan Sandes

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A Life Without Limits – Chrissie Wellington

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ChiRunning – Danny Dreyer

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Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand

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Runner – Lizzy Hawker

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Lizzy Hawker ‘Runner’ Book Review

Mind of a Survivor – Megan Hine

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Megan Hine ‘Mind of a Survivor’ Book Review

Running with the Kenyans

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Why We Run: A Natural History

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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

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Why Not Try Audible Instead: A word about using Audible to read/listen as Audiobooks

If you’ve never tried Audible or haven’t got into audiobooks before, I highly recommend signing up for a free trial! The biggest advantages of using Audible to listen to books, rather than reading them, are that:

  • Get a FREE book. When you sign up for a free trial of Audible, you get 1 free audiobook + 2 free Audible Originals to get you started. After 30 days of your free trial, you get 1 audiobook and 2 Audible Originals each month for $14.95/mo. If you decide to cancel online at anytime, you get to keep all your audiobooks.
  • Listening to someone narrate the book can be more impactful than reading written words.
  • You can listen to audiobooks and get your fix of motivational self-improvement books while doing other things – boring things that don’t otherwise enhance your life, such as commuting, and doing household chores.
  • You can consume information quickly. If you like to consume information fast, you can actually playback the audiobooks faster than just 1x speed. The faster you play them back, the more the narrator will sound like a chipmunk, but the benefit is you can absorb more information SO much faster than reading a book, or even listening to one at normal speed for that matter.
  • Audible is always with you… If you have your phone with you, you have your audiobooks with you.
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