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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.30 — 239,289 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.46 — 178,107 ratings — published 1959
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,087 ratings — published 2018
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.30 — 331,628 ratings — published 2018
Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.03 — 39,816 ratings — published 2012
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,015,661 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.34 — 8,828 ratings — published 209
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,569 ratings — published 2005
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.86 — 216,376 ratings — published 2007
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.02 — 27,870 ratings — published 2012
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.26 — 587,842 ratings — published 1997
Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.38 — 50,060 ratings — published 2022
Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,209 ratings — published 2013
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.22 — 17,349 ratings — published 2018
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,101 ratings — published 2004
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,656 ratings — published 1919
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,367,063 ratings — published 1952
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,827 ratings — published 1998
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.39 — 370,416 ratings — published 2013
Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,817 ratings — published 2022
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.07 — 886,071 ratings — published 2012
Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,365 ratings — published 2019
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,149 ratings — published 2019
Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,889 ratings — published 2015
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,252 ratings — published -370
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,462 ratings — published 2013
Conflagration: How Love And Courage Survived America's Deadliest Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.86 — 35 ratings — published
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,662 ratings — published 2018
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,526 ratings — published 2022
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.22 — 41,554 ratings — published 2021
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.11 — 33,063 ratings — published 2014
Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,334 ratings — published 2021
A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,334 ratings — published 2021
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.98 — 307,780 ratings — published 1979
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.46 — 11,141 ratings — published 2017
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.14 — 122,756 ratings — published 2020
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,012 ratings — published 2021
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,774,516 ratings — published 2018
The Ultra Mindset (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,064 ratings — published 2015
The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,400 ratings — published 2018
80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,160 ratings — published 2014
The Salt Path (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.91 — 107,373 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,959,453 ratings — published 2018
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.07 — 456,902 ratings — published 1998
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,503 ratings — published 2004
Running Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,453 ratings — published
Once a Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,776 ratings — published 1978
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.27 — 999,741 ratings — published 2015
Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,661 ratings — published 2011
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as endurance)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,732 ratings — published 1922
“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
― Forbidden
― Forbidden
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook












