17 must-read nonfiction books like Miracle Country by Kendra Atleework

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Miracle Country

By: Kendra Atleework

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where …

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1. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

By: Ivan Doig

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Paperback

Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens o… read more

Similar categories in Ivan Doig's This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner

2. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

By: Marc Reisner

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more

Similar categories in Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • environment
  • nature

3. The Wild Inside (Glacier Mystery #1)

By: Christine Carbo

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A haunting crime novel set in Glacier National Park about a man who finds himself at odds with the … read more

Similar categories in Christine Carbo's The Wild Inside (Glacier Mystery #1) book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • audiobook
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4. The Plague of Doves

By: Louise Erdrich

4.64

Format: None pages,

The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, gene… read more

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5. The Land of Little Rain

By: Terry Tempest Williams , Mary Hunter Austin

3.71

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

"Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite--east and south over a very great assemblage of broke… read more

Similar categories in Terry Tempest Williams's The Land of Little Rain book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

6. Half Blood Blues

By: Esi Edugyan

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was… read more

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7. The Yosemite

By: John Muir

3.97

Format: 68 pages,

John Muir and Galen Rowell explored Yosemite nearly a century apart, yet America's premier conserva… read more

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8. One Amazing Thing

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed novel by the author of The Mistress of Spices, and Before We Visit the Goddess. Jhumpa… read more

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9. Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

By: Mark Adams

3.64

Format: 211 pages,

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Cover of Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

10. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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11. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

12. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie  Land

13. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny

14. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa L. Sevigny's Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nature
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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15. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle    Tometich

16. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

By: Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more

Similar categories in Annabelle Tometich's The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

17. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

Similar categories in Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

18. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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19. When These Mountains Burn

By: David Joy

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail hi… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's When These Mountains Burn book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • audiobook
"It had never been that addicts don’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over."

-David Joy, When These Mountains Burn

Cover of Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa

20. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Jackson Taffa's Whiskey Tender: A Memoir book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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21. Properties of Thirst

By: Marianne Wiggins

4.17

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evi… read more

Similar categories in Marianne Wiggins's Properties of Thirst book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • family
  • audiobook
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22. A Council of Dolls

By: Mona Susan Power

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more

Similar categories in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • family
  • audiobook
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

Cover of The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg

23. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outside… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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24. Homestead

By: Melinda Moustakis

3.53

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately d… read more

Similar categories in Melinda Moustakis's Homestead book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • family
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon

25. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World by Kilian Jornet

26. Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World

By: Kilian Jornet

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount E… read more

Similar categories in Kilian Jornet's Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

27. What We Fed to the Manticore

By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

4.11

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kollur… read more

Similar categories in Talia Lakshmi Kolluri's What We Fed to the Manticore book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nature
Cover of The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik

28. The Bohemians

By: Jasmin Darznik

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, exploring the w… read more

Similar categories in Jasmin Darznik's The Bohemians book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • audiobook
"Live every day as if you might be struck blind--that was the rule I made for myself now. In those first few days after the quarantine was lifted, we went around marveling at the smallest things, as i…"

-Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

Cover of The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson

29. The High Sierra: A Love Story

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

4.27

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more

Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's The High Sierra: A Love Story book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Miracle Country by Kendra Atleework

30. Miracle Country

By: Kendra Atleework

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where … read more

Similar categories in Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax

31. The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California

By: Mark Arax

4.43

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Author Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land wh… read more

Similar categories in Mark Arax's The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California book and Kendra Atleework's Miracle Country

  • nature
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook

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