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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!

The Wilding by Benjamin Percy  Anthill by E.O. Wilson  West of Here by Jonathan Evison  My Abandonment by Peter Rock

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

  The Wild Trees by Richard Preston  My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard  Why I Came West by Rick Bass

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
 




 

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