6 Top nature books like The Deer Pasture by Rick Bass

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The Deer Pasture

By: Rick Bass

4.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Rick Bass's first collection of essays captures the clear, passionate voice of this acclaimed autho…

If you liked the nature plot in The Deer Pasture by Rick Bass , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Moon Is Down

By: John Steinbeck

3.93

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The … read more

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"The fool supply was controlled..."

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

"We have taken on a job, haven’t we?"

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

"The flies have conquered the flypaper."

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

"...rose like cream to the top of milk."

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

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2. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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3. The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.

4.01

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Origin… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Guthrie Jr.'s The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1) book and Rick Bass's The Deer Pasture

  • nature
"He had lived a man's life, and now it was at an end, and what had he to show for it? Two horses and a few fixin's and a letter of credit for three hundred and forty-three dollars. That was all, unles…"

-A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

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4. Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

By: Michael Azerrad

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Neve… read more

Similar categories in Michael Azerrad's Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana book and Rick Bass's The Deer Pasture

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Massacre at Goliad (Buckalew Family, #2)

By: Elmer Kelton

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Texan-born Josh Buckalew met Teresa, a young and beautiful Mexican woman, it was love at first… read more

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6. Einstein's Dreams

By: Alan Lightman

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

A modern classic, Einstein's Dreamsis a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in … read more

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7. Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)

By: Homer Hickam

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over … read more

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8. Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

By: Les Standiford

4.15

Format: 32 pages, ebook

The author of Last Train to Paradisetells the story of the largest public water project ever create… read more

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9. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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10. Brown Dog

By: Jim Harrison

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

"Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years. . . . [Harrison] remains at… read more

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11. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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12. Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

By: Bill Perkins

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich Imagine if by the time you died, you did… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Your biggest fear ought to be wasting your life and time, not "Am I going to have x number of dollars when I'm 80?"

-Bill Perkins, Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

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13. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

By: Riley Black

3.95

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."

-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"

-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"

-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

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14. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

By: Candice Millard

3.84

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more

Similar categories in Candice Millard's River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile book and Rick Bass's The Deer Pasture

  • nonfiction
  • nature
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"

-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

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15. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

By: David Maraniss

4.02

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more

Similar categories in David Maraniss's Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe book and Rick Bass's The Deer Pasture

  • nonfiction
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16. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Baseball 100

By: Joe Posnanski

4.74

Format: 869 pages, Hardcover

A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more

Similar categories in Joe Posnanski's The Baseball 100 book and Rick Bass's The Deer Pasture

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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18. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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19. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

By: Howard Bryant

4.23

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that… read more

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  • nonfiction
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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

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon book and Rick Bass's The Deer Pasture

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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

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23. Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite

By: Dean King

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir—iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher—meets … read more

Similar categories in Dean King's Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite book and Rick Bass's The Deer Pasture

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Deer Pasture by Rick Bass

24. The Deer Pasture

By: Rick Bass

4.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Rick Bass's first collection of essays captures the clear, passionate voice of this acclaimed autho… read more

Similar categories in Rick Bass's The Deer Pasture book and Rick Bass's The Deer Pasture

  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature

13 Top nonfiction books like The Deer Pasture by Rick Bass

Transform Your Habits

Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

Michael Azerrad

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

Bill Perkins

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Riley Black

3.95

Transform Your Habits

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Candice Millard

3.84

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20 Top audiobook books like The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

Transform Your Habits

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

Evan Drellich

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Baseball 100

Joe Posnanski

4.74

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