
The Best Running Books and Our Summer Reading List
About this episode
Are you looking for a good audiobook to listen to as you start logging more miles this summer? We have a whole list of audiobook recommendations for your long runs, plus our current favorite running books.
Our recommendations include:
- Up to Speed by Christine Yu
- Peak Performance by Steve Magness and Brad Stulburg
- Run to the Finish by Amanda Brooks
- Out of Thin Air by Michael Crawley
- Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman
- Everything Fat Loss by Ben Carpenter
- The Athlete’s Gut by Patrick Wilson
- Run Like a Pro by Matt Fitzgerald
- The Explorer’s Gene by Alex Hutchinson
- How Bad Do You Want It? by Matt Fitzgerald
- Brazen by Julia Haart (audiobook)
- Project Hail Mary; The Martian; Artemis by Andy Weir (audiobook)
- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb (audiobook)
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (audiobook)
- I’m Glad by Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (audiobook)
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- Lost Gods by Brom
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