10 Books About Running to Add to Your TBR Pile

"The Vaster Wilds" ($14, originally $18)

A raw and tough tale, "The Vaster Wilds" is set in the colonial Jamestown settlement during a time when disease and famine killed most of the settlers. A teenage servant girl saves herself by fleeing the colony into the unknown wilderness. The taut novel is part woman vs. nature, part woman vs. herself. The protagonist pushes her body to its limits, trying to survive in the woods and evade capture as she starts to question all the narratives she's been told about the world she lives in. Groff's beautifully constructed sentences are so visceral that you may feel like you are hunting, puking, and running along with her.