Reading the Great Outdoors
CADL staff have assembled a wonderful list of non-fiction nature writing and wilderness fiction. Make your great escape into one of these books!
Adult Fiction
The Outlander by Gil Adamson, HIS (
Staff Review)
A
Superior Death by Nevada Barr, MYS
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell, FIC (Staff
Review)
The
Signal by Ron Carlson, FIC
The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron, MYS (
Staff Review)
West of Here by Jonathan Evison, FIC
Bloodroot
by Amy Greene, FIC (Staff
Review)
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, FIC (
Staff Review)
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean,
FIC
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen, FIC
Cold
Earth by Sarah Moss, FIC
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, FIC (Staff
Review)
The
Wilding by Benjamin Percy, FIC
Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino, GN
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, FIC
My Abandonment by Peter Rock, FIC (
Staff Review)
Anthill
by E.O. Wilson, FIC
Adult Non-Fiction
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv, 155.418 Louv
American Earth : environmental writing since Thoreau, ed. Bill
McKibben, 333.72 American
Why I Came West by Rick Bass, 333.782 Bass
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 363.7384 Carson
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold , 508.73 Leopold
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 508.755 Dillard
The Mountains of California by John Muir, 508.7944 Muir
Moby-Duck
by Donovan Hohn, 551.462 Hohn
Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons, 581.632 Gibbons
The Wild Trees: a Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston,
585.509794 Preston
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat, 599.744 M87n
Beast of Never, Cat of God : the search for the Eastern Puma by Bob
Butz 599.7524 Butz
Meetings With Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham, 635.977
Pakenham
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life by Barbara
Kingsolver, 641.0973 Kingsolver
Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the
World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall, 796.4209
McDougall
Winterdance : the fine madness of running the Iditarod by Gary
Paulsen, 798.8 Paulsen
Red
Bird : poems by Mary Oliver, 811.54 Oliver
Walden
by Henry Thoreau, 818.3 Thoreau
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, 910.4 Krakauer
A Walk in the Woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian
Trail by Bill Bryson, 917.404 Bryson
Country Chronicle by Gladys Taber, 917.46 Taber
Wandering Home by Bill McKibben, 917.475 Mckibben
Fire Season by Philip Connors, 921 Connors
Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living by Doug
Fine, 921 Fine
Reason for Hope : a spiritual journey by Jane Goodall, 921
Goodall
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir, 921 Muir
Beatrix Potter, a Life in Nature by Linda Lear, 921 Potter
Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx, 921 Proulx
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream by Wade Rouse,
921 Rouse (Staff
Review)
Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometimes Farmer by Noel Perrin,
974.3 Perrin
Local Wonders : seasons in the Bohemian Alps by Ted Kooser, 978.23
Kooser

