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24 books recommended for fans of Gary and Duke by Ned McFadden, tied together by themes of Adventurers & Explorers, Personal Memoirs, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Don’t Blow Yourself Up The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky — Homer Hickam

Don’t Blow Yourself Up The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Climb to Glory The Adventures of Bill Hackett — June W. Hackett

Climb to Glory The Adventures of Bill Hackett

June W. Hackett

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Just Go A Globe-Trotting Guide to Travel Like an Expert, Connect Like a Local, and Live the Adventure of a Lifetime — Drew Binsky

Just Go A Globe-Trotting Guide to Travel Like an Expert, Connect Like a Local, and Live the Adventure of a Lifetime

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Dark Wind A Survivor’s Tale of Love and Loss — Gordon Chaplin

Dark Wind A Survivor’s Tale of Love and Loss

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Spirit of St. Louis — Charles A. Lindbergh

The Spirit of St. Louis

Charles A. Lindbergh

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Dreamer and Renaissance Man Dialogue with My Father — Terry Stone

The Dreamer and Renaissance Man Dialogue with My Father

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Wild Life Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World — Rae Wynn-Grant

Wild Life Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Drake And His Yeomen A True Accounting Of The Character And Adventures Of Sir Francis Drake, As Told By Sir Matthew Maunsell, His Friend And Follower (1899) — James Barnes

Drake And His Yeomen A True Accounting Of The Character And Adventures Of Sir Francis Drake, As Told By Sir Matthew Maunsell, His Friend And Follower (1899)

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Lost Maya Cities Archaeological Quests in the Mexican Jungle — Ivan Šprajc

Lost Maya Cities Archaeological Quests in the Mexican Jungle

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Nullarbor Kid Stories from my trucking life — Ray Gilleland

The Nullarbor Kid Stories from my trucking life

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Capturing the Summit Hamilton Mack Laing and the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925 — Trevor Marc Hughes

Capturing the Summit Hamilton Mack Laing and the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925

Trevor Marc Hughes

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Indiana MacCreagh The Real-Life Adventures of the Original Indiana Jones — Roderick Heather

Indiana MacCreagh The Real-Life Adventures of the Original Indiana Jones

Roderick Heather

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

To the Greatest Heights Facing Danger, Finding Humility, and Climbing a Mountain of Truth — Vanessa O’Brien

To the Greatest Heights Facing Danger, Finding Humility, and Climbing a Mountain of Truth — Vanessa O’Brien

Vanessa O'Brien

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Twenty-Ninth Day Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra — Alex Messenger

The Twenty-Ninth Day Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Public Secrets and Justice A Journal of a Circuit Court Judge — Laura N. Melvin

Public Secrets and Justice A Journal of a Circuit Court Judge

Laura N. Melvin

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Bourdain The Definitive Oral Biography — Laurie Woolever

Bourdain The Definitive Oral Biography

Laurie Woolever

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Old Man on a Bicycle A Ride Across America and How to Realize a More Enjoyable Old Age — Don Petterson

Old Man on a Bicycle A Ride Across America and How to Realize a More Enjoyable Old Age

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Will the Circle Be Unbroken? A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay — Sean Dietrich

Will the Circle Be Unbroken? A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

12 Years a Slave A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation — Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation

Solomon Northup

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition One Woman’s Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West — Harriet Fish Backus

Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition One Woman’s Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West

Harriet Fish Backus

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Tent for Seven A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West — Marty Ohlhaut

Tent for Seven A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Titanic and Other Ships — Charles Herbert Lightoller

Titanic and Other Ships

Charles Herbert Lightoller

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Worth A Story of Favor and Forgiveness — Ann Champion Shaw

Worth A Story of Favor and Forgiveness

Ann Champion Shaw

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Kon-Tiki Across the Pacific by Raft — Thor Heyerdahl

Kon-Tiki Across the Pacific by Raft

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

If Gary and Duke by Ned McFadden is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Adventurers & Explorers, Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Homer Hickam, June W. Hackett, Drew Binsky, Gordon Chaplin, and others.

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