Game Changers: Memoirs of People Who Turned Their Lives Upside-Down

You've read Wild: From Lost to Found On the Pacific Crest Trail. And Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy,
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, and maybe even Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession, and Recipes From Tokyo's Most Unlikely Noodle Joint. People can change their lives - take the road less traveled, make a 180 degree turn, change the rules of the game - and many times, for the better. Sometimes the catalysts for change are unlikely - the quest for the perfect slice of pizza? An adventure playground in Japan? Baking? - and the lifestyle change itself surprising (choosing a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle is not uncommon, but we had not heard about choosing sheep-herding before - and yet there are two people on this list who did), and remember,"Life is a journey, not a destination."

Shepherd: A Memoir by Richard Gilbert 

Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin

Chasing the Dragon: One Woman's Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens by Jackie Pullinger with Andrew Quicke

Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search For Wonder In the Natural World by Leigh Ann Henion

All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found by Phillip Connors

Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Jo Link

The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers - An Unconventional Memoir by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home On the Far Side of the World by Tracy Slater

I Taste Fire, Earth, Rain: Elements of a Life With a Sherpa by Caryl Sherpa

Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza by Colin Atrophy Hagendorf

Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die by Amy Fusselman

The Mystical Backpacker: How to Discover Your Destiny in the Modern World by Hannah Papp 

Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever by John Marshall

Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living by Doug Fine 

The Good Life Lab by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne

The Bee Cottage Story: How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happiness by Frances Schultz 

  
Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding by Lynn Darling

Confections of a Closet Master Baker: One Woman's Sweet Journey From Unhappy Hollywood Executive to Contented Country Baker by Gesine Bullock-Prado

Claiming Ground by Laura Bell 

The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories From 125 Writers and Artists edited by Larry Smith