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If you loved Once a Runner

Books like Once a Runner

If you loved Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr., these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

No. 2

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins

No. 3

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

Andrew Ross Sorkin

No. 4

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

No. 5

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

No. 6

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

No. 7

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

Jon Krakauer

No. 8

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

No. 9

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Daniel James Brown

No. 10

Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

Dean Karnazes

No. 11

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle

No. 12

Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success

Angela Duckworth

No. 13

Desert Solitaire

Edward Abbey

No. 14

Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

Geoff Colvin

No. 15

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World

Tracy Kidder

No. 16

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

Kelly McGonigal

No. 17

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

No. 18

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

No. 19

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

No. 20

Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

Cormac McCarthy

No. 21

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J.D. Vance

No. 22

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson

No. 23

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

No. 24

Shoeless Joe

W.P. Kinsella