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Bleachers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 47,726 ratings — published 2003
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as recreation)
avg rating 3.51 — 10,128 ratings — published 2003
Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as recreation)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,388 ratings — published 2009
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as recreation)
avg rating 3.78 — 45,045 ratings — published 1992
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as recreation)
avg rating 4.30 — 239,295 ratings — published 2009
How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion – The Satirical Self-Defense Comedy from the Star of 30 Rock (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.27 — 751 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Side (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 101,877 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as recreation)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,234,410 ratings — published 2008
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,855,788 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,311,825 ratings — published 2009
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as recreation)
avg rating 4.07 — 886,108 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 565,364 ratings — published 2008
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 44,953 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,595,875 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as recreation)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,608,166 ratings — published 1937
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,255,931 ratings — published 2008
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,984,743 ratings — published 1813
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,068,967 ratings — published 1979
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 17,174 ratings — published 1716
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,576,695 ratings — published 2003
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 456,928 ratings — published 1998
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,997,386 ratings — published 1951
The Help (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 3,087,307 ratings — published 2009
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,547,634 ratings — published 2005
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 216,403 ratings — published 2007
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 4,212 ratings — published 2010
The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 1,474 ratings — published 2008
98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,268 ratings — published 2003
Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,318 ratings — published 2008
Moneyball (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 148,359 ratings — published 2003
Bicycle Diaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 7,355 ratings — published 2008
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,418,984 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,216,952 ratings — published 2007
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 264,355 ratings — published 1931
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,936,393 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 11,758,926 ratings — published 1997
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 7,487,099 ratings — published 2005
Dune (Dune, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,698,050 ratings — published 1965
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,143,912 ratings — published 1932
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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avg rating 4.66 — 719,236 ratings — published 2010
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,067,857 ratings — published 2006
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,173,492 ratings — published 1954
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,369,209 ratings — published 2011
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,227,728 ratings — published 1954
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,725,034 ratings — published 1949
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 31,512 ratings — published 1974
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,339,915 ratings — published 2011
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 587,870 ratings — published 1997
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,967,025 ratings — published 2005
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,140,969 ratings — published 1997
“Happiness, therefore, does not lie in amusement; it would, indeed, be strange if the end were amusement, and one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself. For, in a word, everything that we choose we choose for the sake of something else, except happiness, which is an end. Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity.”
― Nicomachean Ethics
― Nicomachean Ethics
“Hiking is good for your body, mind, and soul.”
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