Competitive Research

As part of the process of writing a memoir (well any book) we need to review other books in our genre.

So I took some time out from writing my memoir to find out what other books are in my Quit Your Job niche, and the related FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement.

List of Books

Times New Roman: How We Quit Our Jobs, Gave Away Our Stuff & Moved to Italy by Martha Miller 

• John and Martha throw caution to the wind.
• This ‘journal’ is a useful guide about moving to Italy, and the personal journey it took to get there.

Tales of A Digital Nomad: A Narrative of Freeing Oneself Through Travel, Adventure, and Self-Realization by Nadia King 

• Nadia frees herself from the mundane and embarks on a journey of digital nomadism, self-revelation, and discovery
• She leaves a love behind, and discovers new friendships on her travels across Asia

First We Quit Our Jobs: How One Work Driven Couple Got on the Road to a New Life by Marilyn J. Abraham

• Marilyn and her husband Sandy leave their jobs, friends, and the city behind to hit the road in a twenty-seven foot RV

How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge 

• Frosty shows readers how to live a life of adventure.

First I Was Naive: What Really Happens When You Quit Your Job and Travel the World to “Find Yourself”? by Shyrwyn Clemente 

• A personal memoir of a naive girl’s struggle to find her purpose in life, after leaving everything behind in Paris and traveling to Brazil with nothing but a big backpack and extremely high expectations.

Off the Leash: How My Dog Inspired Me to Quit My Job, Pack My Car, and Take a Road Trip Across America to Reclaim My Life by Jean Ellen Whatley 

• Jean and her dog Libby set out from St. Louis and drive nearly 9,000 miles across America to revive her life. 

Breaking Seas: An overweight, middle-aged computer nerd buys his first boat, quits his job, and sails off to adventureby Glenn Damato 

• Glenn was a forty-one year old software instructor who sought to exceed the bounds of his comfortable but humdrum existence. He embarked on an adventure for which he was miserably unprepared. Why do this? The goal was to become something he was not.

There’s More to Life than a Shitty Cubicle by Jeff Wheeland 

• Tyler has a job that pays the bills, a boss who takes credit for his work, and a stable routine. And he is bored shitless. He decides to leave behind his despised cubicle to head out into the world to learn what makes him happy.

From the Rut to the Ledge: The Story of One Family’s Journey to Get Out of Their Comfort Zone and Travel Around the World by Suzanne Rutledge

• Tired of living in their “comfortable rut,” Suzanne and Mitch Rutledge decided to quit their jobs in America and take their seven-year-old son with them on a journey around the world.

Have you read other books in this retire early niche? Let me know your recommendations.