Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
By: Pam Houston
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it m…
Want to Read $ 9.99"How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"I pause over the words "Wilderness Ranch Subdivision." What the fuck, I wonder, what in the fuck is wrong with us anyway."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it’s as ubiquitous as oxygen."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"And even if the jig is up, even if it is really game over, what better time to sing about the earth than when it is critically, even fatally, wounded at our hands."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
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1. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
2. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
By: Dan Flores
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- audiobook
3. Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
By: Dan O'Brien
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
For twenty years Dan O'Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But w… read more
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4. Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery
By: Steph Jagger
2.75
Format: None pages, ebook
A young woman follows winter across five continents on a physical and spiritual journey that tests … read more
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5. Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
By: Jason A. Ramos
4.17
Format: 510 pages, ebook
A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute … read more
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6. Prodigal Summer
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Prodigal Summerweaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabi… read more
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7. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
8. 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
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- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- 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
9. Nothing Else But Miracles
By: Kate Albus
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy … read more
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- audiobook
10. The Last Ranger
By:
None
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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- animals
- nature
- audiobook
11. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
12. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- nature
- audiobook
13. 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
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- nature
- biography
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
14. 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
15. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
16. Nowhere for Very Long
By: Brianna Madia
4.11
Format: 304 pages, ebook
In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long
17. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- nature
- memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
18. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
By: Caroline Van Hemert
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
19. Erosion: Essays of Undoing
By: Terry Tempest Williams
4.24
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist … read more
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- nature
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- audiobook
"Rather than anchoring our hope beyond the struggle, always projecting ahead, perhaps locating joy within the struggle through our full presence can be our essential gesture at this moment in time. To…"-Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion: Essays of Undoing
20. Playing with Wildfire: A Novel
By: Laura Pritchett
3.94
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
"The broad sweeping compassion of this polyvocal novel takes my breath away." —CAMILLE T. DUNGY, au… read more
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- nature
21. Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir
By: Brianna Madia
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and triumphant memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Ver… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
22. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
4.03
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
23. True North
By: Andrew J. Graff
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, follow… read more
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- nature
- audiobook
24. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
By: Heather Anish Anderson
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appal… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"At least now I knew that my heart was wedded to the mountains--to the wild places. It was there, and there alone, that I was whole, contented, and blissful. No relationship, career, or wealth could e…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
"I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer." I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. "I can adapt. I am adapting." Another long day was done…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
"I want to set a record. Not just any record, but an athletic record. One that everyone will know me for. One that my dad will be proud of. I don't know what it will be, but I will do it. I have a lot…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
"I'd failed to live up to the expectations of my parents. I had not utilized my education in any real way and I'd given up on my marriage. For the first time, I accepted that I could not meet the expe…"-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
25. Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World
By: Kathryn Aalto
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential … read more
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- nature
- biography
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
26. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
By: Pam Houston
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it m… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
"How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"I pause over the words "Wilderness Ranch Subdivision." What the fuck, I wonder, what in the fuck is wrong with us anyway."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it’s as ubiquitous as oxygen."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"And even if the jig is up, even if it is really game over, what better time to sing about the earth than when it is critically, even fatally, wounded at our hands."-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
27. This Much Country
By: Kristin Knight Pace
4.31
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs fro… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
"Later in life I would realize that all of the most badass things I had ever done required an early start, no decipherable sleep, and the jolt of adrenaline that came with knowing I was about to do so…"-Kristin Knight Pace, This Much Country
28. 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
29. Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow
By: Heather Hansman
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
*An Outside Magazine Book Club Pick * *Winner of the International Ski Association's Ullr Book Awar… read more
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- nature
- memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
30. Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
By: Karen Auvinen
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen MacDonald’s H Is for Hawk, Karen Au… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"The love of a dog is no small thing."-Karen Auvinen, Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
"I didn't want to view nature as something out there. Instead, like a bear denning for winter, I wanted to climb inside."-Karen Auvinen, Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
31. 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
