8 Top memoir books like Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library) by John Gierach

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Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

By: John Gierach

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by th…

If you liked the memoir plot in Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library) by John Gierach , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing by Thomas McGuane

1. The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing

By: Thomas McGuane

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Thomas McGuane's obsession with fish has taken him from the river in his backyard to the holiest wa… read more

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  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sports
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

2. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

By: David McCullough

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book … read more

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  • nonfiction
"One has the feeling that if you could pick it up and turn it over, you would see MADE IN AMERICA stamped on it."

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

"What I wanted-what I needed-was a story wherein the principal characters took on something big and admirable and difficult, and did it right."

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

"Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by"

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

"Everywhere about her, lesser men, witless, vulgar, corrupt, men of narrow ambition and the cheapest of values, were prospering as never before, grabbing up power, money, or just about anything else t…"

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

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3. The Forgotten Soldier

By: Guy Sajer

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

Forgotten Soldier  recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the ey… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

"No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

"Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

"And I can remember a tear running down my frozen cheek—a tear neither of pain nor of joy but of emotion created by intense experience."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

Cover of Buffalo Jump Blues (Sean Stranahan #5) by Keith McCafferty

4. Buffalo Jump Blues (Sean Stranahan #5)

By: Keith McCafferty

4.01

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth novel in the Sean Stranahan mystery series, Montana's favorite fly fisherman-detective… read more

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5. The Winter of Our Discontent

By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw

4.01

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store … read more

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"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"If you want to keep a friend, never test him."

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody."

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms."

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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6. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

By: Colin Woodard

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Legends of the Fall

By: Jim Harrison

4.12

Format: 29 pages,

'Legends of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, explorati… read more

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8. Ninety-two in the Shade

By: Thomas McGuane

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a m… read more

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9. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

By: Steven Rinella

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rinella's American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon book and John Gierach's Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • nature

10. The River Why

By: David James Duncan

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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11. To The Bright Edge of the World

By: Eowyn Ivey

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she bought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child, Eowy… read more

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12. Savage Run (Joe Pickett, #2)

By: C.J. Box

3.62

Format: 171 pages,

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13. Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World's Most Elusive Fish

By: Chris Dombrowski

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions--poetry and fly-fishing; two children, on… read more

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14. The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea

By: Jack E. Davis

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind… read more

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15. Trickster's Point (Cork O'Connor, #12)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The latest in the New York Timesbestselling Cork O'Connormystery series--the action never stops whe… read more

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16. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

By: Conor Knighton

4.26

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more

Similar categories in Conor Knighton's Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park book and John Gierach's Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

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17. Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon

By: Monte Burke

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Funny, wistful, and wonderful." --Carl Hiaasen   "You will love this book." --Michael Keaton   "T… read more

Similar categories in Monte Burke's Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon book and John Gierach's Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • outdoors
Cover of The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter

18. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

By: Michael Easter

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and re… read more

Similar categories in Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self book and John Gierach's Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

  • nonfiction
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19. The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life

By: David Coggins

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An “excellent” ( The New York Times ) modern tribute to an ageless pastime, and a practical guide t… read more

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  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean

20. Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

By: John N. Maclean

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It comes a gorgeous chronicle of… read more

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  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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21. A Wild Idea

By: Jonathan Franklin

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In 1991, Doug Tompkins abandoned his comfortable life in San Francisco and flew 6,500 miles south t… read more

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  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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22. The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

By: Jim Harrison

4.30

Format: None pages, ebook

The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search fo… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
Cover of Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton by Kevin Grange

23. 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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  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by David Coggins

24. The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life

By: David Coggins

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist wades into deeper waters and shares new wisd… read more

Similar categories in David Coggins's The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life book and John Gierach's Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly Fishing by William G. Tapply

25. Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly Fishing

By: William G. Tapply

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Fly fishermen everywhere will enjoy these varied, witty, and engaging adventures by one of America’… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Habit of Rivers: Reflections On Trout Streams And Fly Fishing by Ted Leeson

26. Habit of Rivers: Reflections On Trout Streams And Fly Fishing

By: Ted Leeson

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines's Fly… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • essays
Cover of Every Day Was Special: A Fly Fisher's Lifelong Passion by William G. Tapply

27. Every Day Was Special: A Fly Fisher's Lifelong Passion

By: William G. Tapply

4.04

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"It’s been a lifelong, ever-expanding journey, with many big ?sh and faraway waters and dramatic mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library) by John Gierach

28. Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

By: John Gierach

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by th… read more

Similar categories in John Gierach's Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library) book and John Gierach's Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sports
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Bright Rivers: Celebrations of Rivers and Fly Fishing by Nick Lyons

29. Bright Rivers: Celebrations of Rivers and Fly Fishing

By: Nick Lyons

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author's passion of angling and love of rivers are reflected in his account of trout-fishing ex… read more

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30. On the Big Blackfoot

By: Norman Maclean

3.70

Format: 60 pages, Audio CD

On the Big Blackfoot is Norman Maclean's memoir about his Montana youth that inspired his beloved s… read more

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31. A Flyfisher's World

By: Nick Lyons

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A selection of amusing, insightful, and reflective articles and essays by one of the nation's most … read more

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Thomas McGuane

4.26

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David McCullough

4.25

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Guy Sajer

4.38

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Colin Woodard

3.67

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David Brooks

4.14

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

Bill Perkins

3.91

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Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Morgan Housel

4.19

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