My Top 14 Nonfiction Books of All Time; I’m sure I missed some. But these are my favorite go-to books.
Nonfiction
- Edward Abbey: Desert Solitaire
- Bob Cowser Jr: Scorekeeping
- Dayton Duncan: Out West
- John Elder: Reading the Mountain of Home
- David Gessner: Under the Devil’s Thumb, Sick Of Nature
- John Haines: Living off the Country, Essays on Poetry and Place
- Barbara Kingsolver: High Tide in Tucson
- James Michener: The World is My Home
- Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
- Kim Stafford: Early Morning with My Father
- Wallace Stegner: Marking the Sparrow’s Fall, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
- Alice Walker: in Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
- Laura & Guy Waterman: Forest and Crag, A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains
- Ellen Wohl: Of Rocks and Rivers, Seeking a Sense of place in the American West
My Top 5 Fiction Books of All Time; I’m sure I missed some, but again, when I want to be absorbed into a story, I re-read these.
Fiction
- Willa Cather: The Song of the Lark
- Pam Houston: Cowboys are My Weakness
- Anita Shreve: The Weight of Water
- Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose
- Amor Towles: A Gentleman in Moscow