6 Top biography memoir books like Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen

Cover of Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen

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…

"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

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606

By: James Shapiro

4.06

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 aff… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. The High King (The Chronicles of Prydain #5)

By: Lloyd Alexander

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

When the sword of Dyrnwyn, the most powerful weapon inthe kingdom of Prydain, falls into the hands … read more

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3. Taran Wanderer (The Chronicles of Prydain #4)

By: Lloyd Alexander

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer; he has become a hero. Now he dreams of winning the hand… read more

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4. Mother Angelica's Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures

By: Raymond Arroyo , Mother Angelica

3.94

Format: 160 pages,

The Word is made fresh by the irrepressible Mother Angelica as she personally escorts you through t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Lost Words

By: Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
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6. The Mystery of the Yellow Room

By: Gaston Leroux

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of "Murder!"… read more

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7. The Castle of Llyr (The Chronicles of Prydain #3)

By: Lloyd Alexander

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Princess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer … read more

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8. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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9. The Solace of Open Spaces

By: Gretel Ehrlich

3.21

Format: 192 pages,

"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless a… read more

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10. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

By: Terry Tempest Williams

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more

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11. Fox & I

By: Catherine Raven

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

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12. The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells

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13. Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery

By: Dorian Anderson

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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14. A Dangerous Engagement (Amory Ames, #6)

By: Ashley Weaver

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A Dangerous Engagement is the stylish, charming sixth novel in the Edgar-nominated Amory Ames myste… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
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16. A Good House for Children

By: Kate Collins

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when he… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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 Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton by Kevin Grange

18. Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton

By: Kevin Grange

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir by Brianna Madia

19. 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
Cover of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston

20. 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

Similar categories in Pam Houston's Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country book and Karen Auvinen's Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 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

Cover of Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen

21. 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

Similar categories in Karen Auvinen's Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living book and Karen Auvinen's Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living

  • biography
  • memoir
  • westerns
  • travel
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • 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

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Fox & I

Catherine Raven

3.68

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The Lost Spells

Robert Macfarlane

4.49

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A Dangerous Engagement (Amory Ames, #6)

Ashley Weaver

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Camille T. Dungy

4.19

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This Side of Murder (Verity Kent, #1)

Anna Lee Huber

3.78

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Deanna Raybourn

4.19

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Erica Ruth Neubauer

3.94

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Erica Ruth Neubauer

3.92

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