Reading the Water: Fly Fishing, Fatherhood, and Finding Strength in Nature
By: Mark Hume
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A father shares the joys of fly-fishing with his daughters. In this eloquent memoir ... [Mark] Hum…
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1. Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
By: John Gierach
4.40
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by th… read more
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"A couple of hundred dollars for a fishing pole!?¨ You'll hear that all the time if you don't keep your mouth shut in certain company. You can talk about the aesthetics and even mention a cane rod wil…"-John Gierach, Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
2. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
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- nature
"The night. The stars. The river."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"I piss on you from a considerable height."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
3. Wilderness Essays
By: John Muir
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
John Muir was one of our first and finest writers on the wilderness of the American West. Part of M… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
4. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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6. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
By: Norman Maclean
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more
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7. The Dog Stars
By: Peter Heller
3.67
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his frie… read more
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8. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
By: Yvon Chouinard
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and fo… read more
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9. Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
By: Noah Strycker
4.00
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first pe… read more
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10. The Last Ranger
By:
None
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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- nature
11. 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
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- memoir
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"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
12. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.94
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
14. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
15. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
16. The Guide
By: Peter Heller
3.62
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, es… read more
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- nature
17. Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
By: Karen Pinchin
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
**THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
18. 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
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- nature
19. The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor Literature From the award-winning, bestselling auth… read more
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- nature
20. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
21. Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family
By: Jordan Mechner
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this intergenerational graphic memoir, renowned video game designer Jordan Mechner traces the pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
22. Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country
By: Steve Ramirez
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In Casting Forward, naturalist, educator, and writer Steve Ramirez takes the reader on a yearlong j… read more
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"We are souls with bodies, not the other way around. Without the essence of who we are—intact and authentically within our vessels—we are unblinking, inanimate objects; we are no longer soil. . . we a…"-Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country
23. Reflections of a Fly Rod
By: Mark J Usyk
3.77
Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition
Fish stories are like opinions. Everybody’s got one. The difference is, people actually enjoy a goo… read more
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24. 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
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25. Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier (The Oregon Files Book #18)
By: Mike Maden
4.58
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
A deadly war game. An adversary as hard to find as he is to kill. Weapons so sophisticated, none ha… read more
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26. Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
By: Jim O'Heir
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Jim O’Heir, best known for his role as Jerry (or Garry/Larry/Terry/Barry) on Parks and Recreation a… read more
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- memoir
27. Reading the Water: Fly Fishing, Fatherhood, and Finding Strength in Nature
By: Mark Hume
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A father shares the joys of fly-fishing with his daughters. In this eloquent memoir ... [Mark] Hum… read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- nature
28. A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
By: Diane K Boyd
4.50
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A debut memoir from one of the first women who fought for wolf protection in the United States—a st… read more
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- memoir
29. Cast, Catch, Release: Finding Serenity and Purpose through Fly Fishing
By: Marina Gibson
4.12
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For readers of H Is for Hawk and Wild , a lyrical memoir and passionate ode to the art of fly fishi… read more
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- nature
30. Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy
By: Leigh Seippel
3.44
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This vivid story opens with every couple’s nightmare—the disappearance of their comfortable known w… read more
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