5 Best nonfiction books like Alaska Blues: A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage by Joe Upton

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Alaska Blues: A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage

By: Joe Upton

4.04

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

"...A beautifully written book about commercial fishing in coastal waters. Joe Upton delivers both …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Alaska Blues: A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage by Joe Upton , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Sea Runners

By: Ivan Doig

3.85

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Based on an actual incident in 1853, award-winning author Ivan Doig's The Sea Runners is a spare an… read more

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  • travel
"Life is mostly freehand."

-Ivan Doig, The Sea Runners

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2. Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing

By: John Gierach

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. No Surrender (Skink #7)

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.00

Format: 281 pages, Library Binding

Carl Hiaasen serves up his unique brand of swamp justice in the New York Times bestseller Skink—No … read more

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"You live most of your life in your head, so make sure it's in a good space."

-Carl Hiaasen, No Surrender (Skink #7)

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4. Looking for Alaska

By: Peter Jenkins

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his d… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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5. Whiskers of the Lion: An Amish-Country Mystery

By: P.L. Gaus

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

P. L. Gaus's widely praised Amish-Country Mysteries continue to "probe the tension between the self… read more

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6. Skinny Dip

By: Carl Hiaasen

5.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can't tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beauti… read more

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7. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

By: Gary Paulsen

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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9. Blood of the Prodigal (Ohio Amish Mystery, #1)

By: P.L. Gaus

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

From the choppy waves of Lake Erie's Middle Bass Island to the too-tranquil farmlands of Holmes Cou… read more

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10. Cast A Blue Shadow (Ohio Amish Mystery, #4)

By: P.L. Gaus

4.04

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship between history and fiction in a place with a contentious past? And of wha… read more

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11. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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12. Clouds Without Rain (Ohio Amish Mystery, #3)

By: P.L. Gaus

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

In the wake of a fatal accident involving an Amish horse-and-buggy and an eighteen-wheeler, Profess… read more

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13. The River Why

By: David James Duncan

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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14. The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir

By: Ernestine Hayes

2.96

Format: None pages, ebook

In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Ju… read more

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15. Native Tongue (Skink, #2)

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Trade Paperback

When the precious blue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are… read more

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16. Tourist Season

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages,

A bizarre series of killings in Florida lead a one-time journalist onto the trail of a former colle… read more

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17. Double Whammy

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer… read more

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18. Separate from the World (Ohio Amish Mystery, #6)

By: P.L. Gaus

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

As another college year draws to an end, Professor Michael Branden is weary after nearly thirty yea… read more

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19. The Names of Our Tears (Amish-Country Mystery, #8)

By: P.L. Gaus

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Book 8 of the Amish-Country Mysteries Ruth Zook returns home to Holmes County, Ohio, carrying a hea… read more

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20. Star Island (Skink, #6)

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (nee Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen--and … read more

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21. The Narrows (Harry Bosch, #10; Harry Bosch Universe, #13)

By: Michael Connelly

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the … read more

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22. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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23. Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

By: Jonathan Raban

4.62

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic… read more

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24. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By: Daniel James Brown

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowi… read more

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25. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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26. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

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27. Deacon King Kong

By: James McBride

4.17

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more

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"You’ve got to be strong to get old."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"Friendship was trouble in business."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

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28. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

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29. Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.03

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a new novel that captures the Trump era … read more

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30. Alaska Blues: A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage

By: Joe Upton

4.04

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

"...A beautifully written book about commercial fishing in coastal waters. Joe Upton delivers both … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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31. Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in science, art and history

By: Martha Black B.

4.60

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"A magnificent journey alongside orcas, bringing these beautiful creatures to life." —Jay Ritchlin,… read more

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  • nonfiction

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3.83

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