The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
By: Jim Harrison
4.30
Format: None pages, ebook
The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search fo…
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1. Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)
By: Tony Hillerman
4.13
Format: 316 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evi… read more
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- audiobook
"The building was of stone, originally erected, Leaphorn had been told, by a Church of Christ missionary early in McGinnis's tenure as trader and postmaster. It had been abandoned after the preacher's…"-Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)
"The big man glanced at him, a friendly look. Across the hogan, Leaphorn noticed, two of the women were smiling at him. He was a stranger, a policeman who had arrested one of them, a man from another …"-Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)
2. The Executioner's Song
By: Norman Mailer
4.06
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
In what is arguably his greatest work, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
By: Paul Kingsnorth , Wendell Berry
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridle… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- essays
"We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
"Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
4. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- essays
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
5. The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Origin… read more
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- nature
"He had lived a man's life, and now it was at an end, and what had he to show for it? Two horses and a few fixin's and a letter of credit for three hundred and forty-three dollars. That was all, unles…"-A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
7. Blue Highways
By: William Least Heat-Moon
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highwaysis an unforgettable journey along … read more
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- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
8. Ninety-two in the Shade
By: Thomas McGuane
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a m… read more
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- literary fiction
9. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
By: John G. Neihardt , Black Elk
4.37
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The most important aspect of this book is upon the contemporary generation of young Indians who hav… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
10. Delights and Shadows
By: Ted Kooser
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
American author Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements o… read more
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- nonfiction
11. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
By: Norman Maclean
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more
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12. The Nick Adams Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The Nick Adams Stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, vete… read more
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13. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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14. Crossing Open Ground
By: Barry Lopez
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and fo… read more
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15. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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- literary fiction
- audiobook
"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
16. Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon
By: Monte Burke
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Funny, wistful, and wonderful." --Carl Hiaasen "You will love this book." --Michael Keaton "T… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)
By: Craig Johnson
4.37
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of chara… read more
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- audiobook
19. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)
By: James Lee Burke
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more
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- audiobook
20. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
21. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
22. Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
By: Rinker Buck
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds … read more
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- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
23. Riverman: An American Odyssey
By: Ben McGrath
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years… read more
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- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"No fleeting moment can bear the scrutiny that a lone voyager is able to give it."-Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey
24. The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
By: Jim Harrison
4.30
Format: None pages, ebook
The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search fo… read more
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- literary fiction
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- audiobook
25. The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness
By: Thomas Moore
4.24
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
EMBRACING EMPTINESS, STAYING OPEN, FINDING CALM With compassion and insight, Thomas Moore offers… read more
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- nonfiction
26. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
By: Miles Harvey
3.69
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
By: Wendell Berry
4.03
Format: 513 pages, Paperback
Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continue… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
28. Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
By: John McPhee
3.91
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. … read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- audiobook
29. Followed by the Lark
By: Helen Humphreys
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak of ch… read more
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- literary fiction
- nature
- audiobook
30. Familiaris
By: David Wroblewski
4.21
Format: 979 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more
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- literary fiction
- audiobook
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
31. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
