11 Best nature books like The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by David Coggins

Cover of The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by David Coggins

The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life

By: David Coggins

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist wades into deeper waters and shares new wisd…

If you liked the nature plot in The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by David Coggins , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing by Thomas McGuane

1. The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing

By: Thomas McGuane

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Thomas McGuane's obsession with fish has taken him from the river in his backyard to the holiest wa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library) by John Gierach

2. Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

By: John Gierach

4.40

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"A couple of hundred dollars for a fishing pole!?¨ You'll hear that all the time if you don't keep your mouth shut in certain company. You can talk about the aesthetics and even mention a cane rod wil…"

-John Gierach, Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

Cover of Even Brook Trout Get The Blues by John Gierach

3. Even Brook Trout Get The Blues

By: John Gierach

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature

4. 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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5. Standing in a River Waving a Stick

By: John Gierach

4.60

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men by Harry Middleton, Russell Chatham

6. The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men

By: Harry Middleton , Russell Chatham

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature

7. The River Why

By: David James Duncan

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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8. At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman

By: John Gierach

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by th… read more

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9. All Fishermen Are Liars

By: John Gierach

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the Pacific Northwest to the Upper Midwest to the Canadian Maritimes, "America's best fishing … read more

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10. Big Two-Hearted River

By: Ernest Hemingway

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Audio CD

Big two-hearted river -- A way you'll never be -- In another country. read more

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11. Men and Style: Essays, Interviews, and Considerations

By: David Coggins

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller Men and Stylereaches beyond standard "what to wear" advice: It is equal pa… read more

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Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

12. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

13. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

14. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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15. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Cover of Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León

16. Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

By: Jason De León

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, b… read more

Similar categories in Jason De León's Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling book and David Coggins's The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life

  • nonfiction
Cover of Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7) by Jack Carr

17. Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)

By: Jack Carr

4.54

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbe… read more

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Cover of Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell

18. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

By: Will Cockrell

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life by David  Coggins

19. The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life

By: David Coggins

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An “excellent” ( The New York Times ) modern tribute to an ageless pastime, and a practical guide t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party by Tulsi Gabbard

20. For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party

By: Tulsi Gabbard

4.43

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and in… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

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
"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

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22. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) by Patrick     Taylor

23. Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1)

By: Patrick Taylor

4.08

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

“Lost on Purpose” is the non-fiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took … read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. All the Time in the World

By: John Gierach

4.41

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the answer to life’s most pressing problems through the joy of fly-fishing from master phi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by David Coggins

25. The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life

By: David Coggins

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist wades into deeper waters and shares new wisd… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Mark Kurlansky

26. The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing

By: Mark Kurlansky

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor Literature From the award-winning, bestselling auth… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley by Brent Underwood

27. Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley

By: Brent Underwood

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

28. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

Cover of American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home by Steven Kurutz

29. American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home

By: Steven Kurutz

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

“I can confidently say this will be one of my favorite books of 2024.” —Stephen King, bestselling a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country by Steve  Ramirez

30. Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

By: Steve Ramirez

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Casting Forward, naturalist, educator, and writer Steve Ramirez takes the reader on a yearlong j… read more

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"We are souls with bodies, not the other way around. Without the essence of who we are—intact and authentically within our vessels—we are unblinking, inanimate objects; we are no longer soil. . . we a…"

-Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

21 best-selling nonfiction books like The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by David Coggins

Transform Your Habits

The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing

Thomas McGuane

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

John Gierach

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Even Brook Trout Get The Blues

John Gierach

3.50

Standing in a River Waving a Stick

John Gierach

4.60

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13 must-read nonfiction books like All the Time in the World by John Gierach

Transform Your Habits

The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing

Thomas McGuane

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

Steven Rinella

4.42

Transform Your Habits

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

4.30

Transform Your Habits

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

Steven Rinella

3.50

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