6 must-read memoir books like The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water by Chris Dombrowski

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The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

By: Chris Dombrowski

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitut…

If you liked the memoir plot in The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water by Chris Dombrowski , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill, Lisa McCubbin

1. Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Lisa McCubbin

4.24

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest… read more

Similar categories in Clint Hill's Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"We had been through so much together, mrs. Kennedy and me. More than anyone can imagine. More than anyone can ever know."

-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

"it's been a long time since i've thought about that night, that wonderful raucous night. I can still see the president s surprise and amusement while opening gifts. I can still hear the music, the gu…"

-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

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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

Similar categories in John Gierach's Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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3. True North

By: Jim Harrison

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

True North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the dam… read more

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4. The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)

By: James Lee Burke

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with … read more

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5. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

By: Hampton Sides

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more

Similar categories in Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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6. The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men

By: Harry Middleton , Russell Chatham

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the … read more

Similar categories in Harry Middleton's The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • outdoors
  • nature

7. Animal Dreams

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet drea… read more

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8. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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9. A Blizzard of Polar Bears (Alex Carter, #2)

By: Alice Henderson

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Wildlife biologist Alex Carter is back, fighting for endangered species in the Canadian Arctic and … read more

Similar categories in Alice Henderson's A Blizzard of Polar Bears (Alex Carter, #2) book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • nature
Cover of Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity by Bill O'Reilly

10. Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the latest book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell… read more

Similar categories in Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. Ridgeline

By: Michael Punke

4.28

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant. … read more

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12. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

By: Lydia Millet

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's We Loved It All: A Memory of Life book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
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13. The Appalachian Trail: A Biography

By: Philip D'Anieri

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it ev… read more

Similar categories in Philip D'Anieri's The Appalachian Trail: A Biography book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • nature
Cover of How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail by Nicole  Antoinette

14. How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail

By: Nicole Antoinette

4.30

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, stuck in a loop of codependency and people-pleasing, 32-year-old novice backpacker Nicole … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Antoinette's How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences by Jedidiah Jenkins

15. 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

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
"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

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16. Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America

By: Megan Kate Nelson

3.70

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating stor… read more

Similar categories in Megan Kate Nelson's Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • nature
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17. Where the Crooked River Rises: A High Desert Home

By: Ellen Waterston

3.60

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

There is an otherness to the high desert, something momentous and sacred in the purity of the silen… read more

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18. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

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Cover of Capture or Kill (Mitch Rapp, #23) by Vince Flynn

19. Capture or Kill (Mitch Rapp, #23)

By: Vince Flynn

4.53

Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Rapp faces an Iranian foe bent on destabilizing the Middle East in the newest thriller from V… read more

Similar categories in Vince Flynn's Capture or Kill (Mitch Rapp, #23) book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

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20. The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

By: Chris Dombrowski

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitut… read more

Similar categories in Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water book and Chris Dombrowski's The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • outdoors
  • nature
Cover of The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy by James G. Stavridis

21. The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy

By: James G. Stavridis

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling former NATO commander comes a riveting historical novel that ch… read more

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11 must-read nonfiction books like The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water by Chris Dombrowski

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Lisa McCubbin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing

John Gierach

4.31

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Hampton Sides

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men

Harry Middleton , Russell Chatham

3.45

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Transform Your Habits

Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Carrot Quinn

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail

Heather Anish Anderson

4.10

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