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Books like What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
The best books like What I Talk About When I Talk About Running are Finding Ultra, Born to Run, and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami is about running, writing, discipline. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Finding Ultra
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Rich Roll · Memoir
Finding Ultra is Rich Roll's memoir of going from overweight, alcoholic attorney at age forty to competing in the Ultraman World Championship — a three-day, 320-mile endurance race — on a fully plant-based diet.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - Born to Run
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Christopher McDougall · Health
Born to Run begins as a personal injury investigation.
Both dig into running.
Read the summary → - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King · Memoir
On Writing is Stephen King's memoir of the writing life combined with a practical toolkit for writers.
Shares writing and discipline with What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
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- A Moveable Feast
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Ernest Hemingway · Memoir
A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's posthumously published account of his years in Paris during the 1920s, when he and his first wife Hadley lived cheaply in Montparnasse while he apprenticed himself to the work of becoming a writer.
Both dig into writing.
Read the summary → - Can't Hurt Me
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David Goggins · Memoir
Can't Hurt Me is David Goggins's memoir of escaping an abusive childhood, failing military entrance requirements, becoming a Navy SEAL, and then becoming one of the most accomplished endurance athletes in the world — not through talent or privilege but through a deliberate, painful process of forcing himself past every limit he had.
Both dig into discipline.
Read the summary → - Never Finished
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David Goggins · Memoir
Never Finished is David Goggins' follow-up to Can't Hurt Me, continuing his story and philosophy of mental toughness beyond the point where the first book left off.
Both dig into discipline.
Read the summary → - Running with the Kenyans
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Adharanand Finn · Memoir
Running with the Kenyans is Adharanand Finn's account of uprooting his family and moving to Iten, a small town in the Kenyan Rift Valley that has produced more world-class distance runners than anywhere else on earth, to train alongside them and understand why they are so dominant.
Both dig into running.
Read the summary → - The Boys of Summer
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Roger Kahn · Memoir
The Boys of Summer is Roger Kahn's account of covering the Brooklyn Dodgers for the New York Herald Tribune in the early 1950s, followed by his return visits in the late 1960s to find out what had happened to the players since.
Both dig into aging.
Read the summary → - The Seven Storey Mountain
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Thomas Merton · Memoir
The Seven Storey Mountain is Thomas Merton's autobiography, published in 1948 when he was thirty-three years old.
Both dig into solitude.
Read the summary → - The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel · Memoir
In 1986, a twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight drove into the woods of central Maine, abandoned his car, and walked into the forest.
Both dig into solitude.
Read the summary → - 80/20 Running
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Matt Fitzgerald · Health
80/20 Running is Matt Fitzgerald's evidence-based argument that the most common mistake recreational runners make is training too hard, too often.
Both dig into running.
Read the summary → - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande · Health
Being Mortal is Atul Gawande's investigation into why modern medicine is so bad at helping people die well.
Both dig into aging.
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Books like What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: quick answers
What are the best books like What I Talk About When I Talk About Running?
The best books like What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami are Finding Ultra by Rich Roll, Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, such as running, writing, discipline.
What should I read after What I Talk About When I Talk About Running?
A natural next read after What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is Finding Ultra by Rich Roll. A kindred memoir read. Other strong choices are Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.
What books are similar to What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami?
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running centers on running, writing, discipline. Books with a similar feel include Finding Ultra by Rich Roll, Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins, Never Finished by David Goggins — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
