March is National Reading Month!
I’ve noticed that people that love the outdoors also tend to love reading about the outdoors. I am normally reading two, three, or four different books at any given time. My wife loves to read possibly more than I do – she’s a reading teacher! There are books everywhere in our home. Our goal every year is to each read a minimum of fifty-two books – one for each week of the year. Not only do we read lots of books, but we each record them in a journal. I don’t write anything about the book; just title, author, number of pages, and where the book came from (my personal library, public library, borrowed book).
I have a record of every book I have read since January 2005, with one major exception – we moved to our current home in 2011 and I didn’t record anything from the time we packed up and moved in March of that year until January 2012. I’m bummed that I don’t have any records from that time… Even with those missing nine months, I have records of nearly nine hundred books, including thirteen so far in 2020.
What do I read? A little of everything – biography, history, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, and more. I especially read books about science, nature, and the outdoors (including hiking, fishing, and hunting stories).
Here is my nearly complete list of the science, nature, and outdoor books that I have read since 2005 (minus the missing months of 2011 – plus I think I may have forgotten to write down a few others). These books have been grouped into rough categories in no particular order. Many books could easily fit in more than one category. Books that have been boldfaced are either ones that I particularly liked or thought were important.
-Mike LeValley (March 2020)
Alaska/Canada
One Man’s Wilderness by Sam Kieth and Richard Proenneke
Alaska’s Wolf Man: The 1915-55 Wilderness Adventures of Frank Glaser by Jim Rearden
Shopping for Porcupine: A Life In Arctic Alaska by Seth Kantner
Standing Ground: Alaska Stories, Police Tales, and Things I’d Rather Not Talk About by Alan L. White
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by William L. Iggiaruk Hensley
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska by Miranda Weiss
First Wilderness: My Quest in the Territory of Alaska by Sam Keith
The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family Alone in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell
Yukon Alone: The World’s Toughest Adventure Race by John Balzar
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen
Red Summer: The Danger, Madness, and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote Alaskan Village by Bill Carter
Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild by James Campbell
Death on the Barrens: A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic by George James Grinnell
The Alaskan Retreater’s Notebook: One Man’s Journey into the Alaskan Wilderness by Ray Ordonica
Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage by Brian Castner
Where the River Reigns: One Man’s Dream for a Log Cabin in the Wild of Alaska by Brian P. Horacek
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic by Adam Shoalts
Arctic/Antarctica
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot With an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer
South With the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Exploration and the Quest for Discovery by Lynn Cox
The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska’s Inupiat Eskimos by Nick Jans
Roald Amundsen by Tor Bomann-Larsen
White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic by Stephen R. Brown
The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World by Robert McGhee
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage by Kathleen Winter
The North Country
Open Horizons by Sigurd F. Olson
Woman of the Boundary Waters: Canoeing, Guiding, Mushing, and Surviving by Justine Kerfoot
The Grand Portage by Walter O’Meara
The Long-shadowed Forest by Helen Hoover
We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich
At Home in the Woods: Living the Life of Thoreau Today by Bradford Angier and Vera Angier
The Meaning of Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson
Chips from a Wilderness Log by Calvin Rutstrum
Northland: A 4,000-mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border by Porter Fox
Birds/Birdwatching
To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, A Son and a Lifelong Obsession by Dan Koeppel
The Ardent Birder: On the Craft of Birdwatching by Todd Newberry and Gene Holtan
The Ghost With Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species by Scott Weidensaul
Out of the Woods: A Bird Watcher’s Year by Ora E. Anderson
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding by Scott Weidensaul
All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures by Roger Tory Peterson
Hope is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds by Christopher Cokinos
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O’Brien
The Verb ‘To Bird’: Sightings of an Avid Birder by Peter Cashwell
A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest To See It All by Luke Dempsey
Birdology: Adventures With a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur by Sy Montgomery
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom From the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans by John Marzluff and Tony Angell
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
Life Birds by George Levine
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich
Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century by Tim Gallagher
One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives by Bernd Heinrich
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg by Tim Birkhead
Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year by Neil Hayward
Nature/Ecology/Natural History
Swampwalker’s Journal: A Wetlands Year by David M. Carroll
Natural Coincidence: The Trip from Kalamazoo by Bil Gilbert
Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison edited by Hampton Sides
Wintering by Diana Kappel-Smith
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search For the Continent’s Natural Soul by Scott Weidensaul
Northwoods Wildlife: A Watcher’s Guide to Habitats by Janine M. Benyus
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes: Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky by Jerry Dennis
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery
Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness by Guy Waterman and Laura Waterman
My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watching, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, From Living Rivers, In the Age of the Industrial Dark by David James Duncan
Squirrels at My Window: Life with a Remarkable Gang of Urban Squirrels by Grace Marmor Spruch
Life Counts: Cataloguing Life on Earth by Michael Gleich, Dirk Maxeiner, et al
A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place by Hannah Hinchman
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs
Looking for Hickories: The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest by Tom Springer
Ecology of A Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners by James B Nardi
The Search for a Sense of Wildness by Michael P. Ausema
Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in Herpetology by D. Bruce Means
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg
The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge by Jamie James
The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane
Watchers at the Pond by Franklin Russell
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
A Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich
One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World by Gordon Hempton ans John Grossman
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo by Kate Jackson
The Book of Yaak by Rick Bass
Summer World: A Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich
Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife by Richard Conniff
The Founding Fish by John McPhee
A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship With Nature by James William Gibson
Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley
Footnotes on Nature by John Kieran
Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich
The Path: A One-mile Walk Through the Universe by Chet Raymo
The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana by Rick Bass
Water: A Natural History by Alice Outwater
The Forgotten Pollinators by Stephen L. Buchmann and Gary Paul
The Mountains Next Door by Janice Emily Bowers
Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgram
The Snoring Bird: My Family’s Journey Through A Century of Biology by Bernd Heinrich
Why I Came West by Rick Bass
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey
Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Great Animals by Jay Kirk
Wading For Bugs: Exploring Streams With the Experts edited by Judith L. Li and Michael T. Barbour
The Big Swamp: A Wildlife Biologist’s Lifetime of Adventures by Raymond D. Schofield
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich
Time and Tide in Acadia: Seasons on Mount Desert Island by Christopher Camuto
Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-wild World by Emma Marris
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods by Christine Byl
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Charlotte Gill
The Endangered Species Road Trip: A Summer’s Worth of Dingy Motels, Poison Oak, Ravenous Insects, and the Rarest Species in North America by Cameron MacDonald
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold
Beyond Walden: The Hidden History of America’s Kettle Lakes and Ponds by Robert M. Thorson
Keith County Journal by John Janovy Jr.
Island Year by Hazel Heckman
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson
A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm by Dave Goulson
The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons From a Life in Nature by David Gessner
Theodore Roosevelt in the Field by Michael R. Canfield
The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse
Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping by Dan White
The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness by Gary Ferguson
Bog tender: Coming Home to Nature and Memory by George Szanto
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
Hawk’s Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone by Gary Ferguson
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: How a Maine Guide Inspired America’s 26th President by Andrew Vietze
The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collection of Natural History Museums by Christopher Kemp
The Snow Tourist: A Search for the World’s Purest, Deepest Snowfall by Charles English
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction by Mary Ellen Hannibal
Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman’s Search for Balance by Iris Graville
Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land by Scott Freeman
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
The Power of a Plant: A Teacher’s Odyssey to grow Healthy Minds and Schools by Stephen Ritz
The Naturalist at Large by Bernd Heinrich
The Art of Naming by Michael Ohl
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth by Craig Childs
The Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees: The Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
The River in Winter by Stanley Crawford
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan
Death of A Hornet and Other Cape Cod Essays by Robert Finch
Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes by Heather Shumaker
The Geese of Beaver Bog by Bernd Heinrich
In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land by Stephie Mills
Wild and Rare: Tracking Endangered Species in the Upper Midwest by Adam Regn Arvidson
Wild at Heart: America’s Turbulent Relationship with Nature, from Exploitation to Redemption by Alice Outwater
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save The West by John Taliaferro
Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm by Isabella Tree
Rewild Yourself: Making Nature More Visible in Our Lives by Simon Barnes
Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places by Craig Childs
The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us – A Diary by Emma Mitchell
Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards
Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet edited by Julie Dunlap and Susan A Cohen
Trees/Plants/Gardens
Beautiful Madness: One Man’s Journey Through Other People’s Gardens by James Dodson
The Trees in My Forest by Bernd Heinrich
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
People With Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening by Robert Chotzinoff
American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel
The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins
Wood: Craft, Culture, History by Harvey Green
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Unearthed: Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden by Alexandra Risen
Nature’s Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests by Joan Maloof
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape by Jill Jonnes
The Wood for the Trees: One Man’s Long View of Nature by Richard Fortey
Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-old Oak by Lynda V. Mapes
The Ghost Orchard: The Hidden History of the Apple in North America by Helen Humphreys
The Man Who Climbs Trees by James Aldred
The Long, Long Life of Trees by Fiona Stafford
The Flavor of Wood: In Search of the Wild Taste of Trees From Smoke and Sap to Root and Bark by Artur Cesar-Erlach
Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees by William Bryant Logan
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoka Abe
To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey From Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Geology/Geography/Other Sciences
On the Map: A Mind-expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield
Rising From the Plains by John McPhee
Coming Into the Country by John McPhee
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt tells Us About Who We Are by Paul Bogard
Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology by David B Williams
The Map That Changed The World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life by Brenda Maddox
Farming/Rural Life
A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America by Logan Ward
Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm by Jane Brox
Heirloom: Notes From and Accidental Tomato Farmer by Tim Stark
Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass by Gary Paulsen
It’s a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life by Keith Stewart
Ripe: The Search for the Perfect Tomato by Arthur Allen
Claiming Ground: A Memoir by Laura Bell
Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies From the Land by David Mas Masumoto
Mostly in Clover: Growing Up in Rural Ontario. A Boy Now a Man Recounts His Memories by Harry J. Boyle
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin
Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine by Leo Ureneck
Triple Ridge Farm by Ruth Fouts Pochmann
Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
More Scenes From the Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes
Cabin Lessons: A Nail-by-Nail Tale: Building Our Dream Cottage from 2x4s, Blisters, and Love by Spike Carlsen
Growing A Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life by David R. Montgomery
Craeft: An Inguiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alexander Langlands
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Foods, and Love by Kristin Kimball
Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Without Wealth on the New Garden Farm by Gene Logsdon
The Farmer’s Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm by John Connell
Logging
Hard Maple, Hard Work by John Gagnon
McTaggart’s Red Keg: Logging From A-Z on the Tittabawassee in Michigan by Irene M. Hargreaves and Harold M. Foehl
“Daylight in the Swamp”: Lumberjacking in the Late 19th Century by Robert W. Wells
Timber! The Bygone Life of the Northwoods Lumberjacks by John C. Frohlicher
Food
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans by Patricia Klindienst
Empires of Food: Feast Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Evand D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America by Langdon Cook
A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life by Jim Harrison
100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why it Matters Today by Stephen Le
American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields by Rowan Jacobsen
The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine by Steven Rinella
The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table With My Heroes by Rick Bass
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
Uncultivated: Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living by Andy Brennan
Mountaineering/Adventure
Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson
Foot by Foot Through the USA by Winfield H. Line and Francis R. Line
Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting by T.R. Pearson
A Sense of the World: How A Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts
Touching My Father’s Soul: A Sherpa’s Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay w/ Broughton Coburn
Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled – And Knuckleheaded – Quest for the Rocky Mountain High by Mark Obmascik
A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Fredrick Russell Burnham by Steve Kemper
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life by Arlene Blum
Paddling/Canoeing/Rafting
Canyon Solitude: A Woman’s Solo River Journey Through Grand Canyon by Patricia C. McCairen
From a Wooden Canoe: Reflections on Canoeing, Camping, and Classic Equipment by Jerry Dennis
An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp by Christine Jerome
Canoeing With the Cree by Eric Severeid
One Incredible Journey by Clayton Klein and Verlen Kruger
The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee
Cold Summer Wind by Clayton Klein
Portage Into the Past: By Canoe Along the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters by J. Arnold Bolz
The Last Voyageurs: Retracing LaSalle’s Journey Across America: Sixteen Teenagers on the Adventure of a Lifetime by Lorraine Boissoneault
Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts by Steven Faulkner
Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery by Alys Fowler
Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North by Adam Weymouth
Hiking/Walking
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
A Season on the Appalachian Trail by Lynn Setzer
Walking My Dog, Jane: From Valdez to Prudhoe Bay Along the Trans Alaska Pipeline by Ned Rozell
The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland by Rory Stewart
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller
Alone Together: My Adventure on the Appalachian Trail by Wally Miars
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor
A Walk Across Michigan by Will Swartz
Paleontology/Archaeology
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs
Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession by Craig Childs
My European Family: The First 54,000 Years by Karin Bojs
The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest by David Roberts
Michigan/The Great Lakes
Walking to Mackinac by David E. Bonior
The Superior Peninsula: Seasons in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by Lon L. Emerick
The Living Great Lakes: Searching For the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis
The Fourth Coast: Exploring the Great lakes Coastline From the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota by Mary Blocksma
Graced by the Seasons: Fall and Winter in the Northwoods by John Bates
Great Lakes Nature: An Outdoor Year by Mary Blocksma
River of Iron by David Lee
The Wolves of Isle Royale: A Broken Balance by Rolf O. Peterson
Lake Country: A Series of Journeys by Kathleen Stocking
An Uncrowded Place: The Delights and Dilemmas of Life Up North and a Young Man’s Search for Home by Bob Butz
Great Lakes Country by Russell McKee
The Turn in the Trail: Northwoods Tales of the Upper Great Lakes by Walt Sandburg
Native American
Rez Life by David Treuer
Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community by Brenda J. Child
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America by Michael A. McDonnell
Wilderness Empire by Allan W. Eckert
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich
Hunting/Fishing/Trapping
Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa by Philip Caputo
Fly-fishing the 41st: Around the World on the 41st Parallel by James Prosek
Trout Madness by John D. Voelker (Robert Traver)
On The Run: An Angler’s Journey Down The Striper Coast by David DiBenedetto
Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly Fishing by William G. Tapply
Kerplunk! by Patrick F. McManus
The River Home: An Angler’s Explorations by Jerry Dennis
The Fish’s Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors by Ian Frazier
A Place on the Water: An Angler’s Reflections on Home by Jerry Dennis
Hunting From Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains by Christopher Camuto
American Buffalo In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella
West With the Rise: Fly-fishing Across America by James Barilla
The Sporting Road: Travels Across America in An Airstream Trailer – With Fly Rod, Shotgun, and a Yellow Lab Named Sweetzer by Jim Fergus
Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had by Rick Bass
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Dolan
Fool’s Paradise by John Gierach
The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family by Walt Harrington
At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman by John Gierach
Still Life With Brook Trout by John Gierach
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Treasury by John Gierach
The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark
Remembrances of Rivers Past by Ernest Schwiebert
The Fragrance of Grass by Guy de la Valdene
Meat Eater: Adventures From the Life of an American Hunter by Steven Rinella
Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs edited by Robert DeMott and Dave Smith
Upland Autumn: Birds, Dogs, and Shotgun Shells by William G. Tapply
Fishing the River of Time by Tony Taylor
Use Enough Gun: Ruark on Hunting Big Game by Robert Ruark
Every Day Was Special: A Fly Fisher’s Lifelong Passion by William G. Tapply
Charley Waterman’s Tales of Fly-fishing, Wing-shooting, and the Great Outdoors by Charley Waterman
On the Water: A Fishing Memoir by Guy de la Valdene
Red Stag: A Novel by Guy de la Valdene
Brown Feathers: Waterfowling Tales an Upland Dreams by Steven J. Mulak
The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing by Thomas McGuane
Outdoor Chronicles: True Tales of a Lifetime of Hunting and Fishing by Jerry Hamza
A Fly Fisherman’s Blue Ridge by Christopher Camuto
Midwest Meanders by Tom Huggler
This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest by Robert Glass Cleland
The Ghosts of Autumn: A Season of Hunting Stories by Joel Spring
A Fly Rod of Your Own by John Gierach
Jill and I and the Salmon by Jack Russell
Moose in the Water Bamboo on the Bench: A Journal and a Journey by Kathy Scott
What the River Knows: An Angler in Midstream by Wayne Fields
Salmon On A Fly: The Essential Wisdom and Lore from a Lifetime of Salmon Fishing by Lee Wulff
A Rough-shooting Dog: Reflections From Thick and Uncivil Sorts of Places by Charles Fergus
A Hunter’s Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds & Guns by Gene Hill
My Secret Fishing Life by Nick Lyons
Covered Waters: Tempests of a Nomadic Trouter by Joseph Heywood
One River More: A Celebration of Rivers and Flyfishing by W.D. Wetherell
A Naturalist Goes Fishing: Casting in Fragile Waters from the Gulf of Mexico to New Zealand’s South Island by Jame McClintock
Michigan Seasons: Classic Tales of Life Outdoors edited by Ted J. Rulsch
Fifty-five Years a Grouse Hunter by Frank Jezioro
Casting Into the Light: Tales of a Fishing Life by Janet Messineo
