One book, long ago, altered my life . . .
Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
—Robyn Davidson
✸ Books I didn’t want to end (latest at top).
I'm beginning to find this a rather odd classification—it’s not that the others weren’t enjoyable, or worthy reads. Furthermore, I must admit, the choice of "star" or "no star" often hinges on my momentary mood about the state of the universe.
I’ve started two new categories—all their own.
✸ Books that are smashingly GOOD, not to be missed!
✸ Important Books!
A funny! for
Women Who Read
One book, long ago, altered my life . . .
Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
—Robyn Davidson
✸ Books I didn’t want to end (latest at top).
I'm beginning to find this a rather odd classification—it’s not that the others weren’t enjoyable, or worthy reads. Furthermore, I must admit, the choice of "star" or "no star" often hinges on my momentary mood about the state of the universe.
✸ Books that are smashingly GOOD, not to be missed!
A funny! for
Women Who Read
A funny! for
Women Who Read
One book, long ago, altered my life . . .
Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
—Robyn Davidson
✸ Books I didn’t want to end
(latest at top).
(latest at top).
I'm beginning to find this a rather odd classification—it’s not that the others weren’t enjoyable, or worthy reads. Furthermore, I must admit, the choice of "star" or "no star" often hinges on my momentary mood about the state of the world.
—I’ve started two new categories, all their own . . .
✸ Books that are smashingly GOOD,
not to be missed!
not to be missed!
✸ Important Books!
✸ Rules of Civility
—Amor Towles
Dark Sacred Night
—Michael Connelly
✸ A Map of Salt and Stars
—Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
✸ A Gentleman in Moscow
—Amor Towles
✸ The Table Where Rich People Sit
—Byrd Baylor
✸ Everybody Needs a Rock
—Byrd Baylor
—Amor Towles
Dark Sacred Night
—Michael Connelly
✸ A Map of Salt and Stars
—Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
✸ A Gentleman in Moscow
—Amor Towles
✸ The Table Where Rich People Sit
—Byrd Baylor
✸ Everybody Needs a Rock
—Byrd Baylor
✸ The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
—David Quammen
✸ A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic
—Peter Wadhams
Unsheltered
—Barbara Kingsolver
✸ All the Light We Cannot See
—Anthony Doerr
✸ Under the Shadows
—Gwen Florio
✸ Silent Hearts
—Gwen Florio
✸ The Girl from the River
—Elizabeth Cain
The Jump-Off Creek
—Molly Gloss
✸ Hearts of Horses
—Molly Gloss
✸ Girl Waits with Gun
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit
—Amy Stewart
—David Quammen
✸ A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic
—Peter Wadhams
Unsheltered
—Barbara Kingsolver
✸ All the Light We Cannot See
—Anthony Doerr
✸ Under the Shadows
—Gwen Florio
✸ Silent Hearts
—Gwen Florio
✸ The Girl from the River
—Elizabeth Cain
The Jump-Off Creek
—Molly Gloss
✸ Hearts of Horses
—Molly Gloss
✸ Girl Waits with Gun
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit
—Amy Stewart
✸ Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest Hour
—Lynn Olsen
✸ The Clay Girl
—Heather Tucker
✸ Three Day Road
—Joseph Boyden
✸ Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
—Erica Armstrong Dunbar
✸ Americanah
—Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
✸ Halfway to Halfway and Back: More River Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Winford & Bob Volpert
✸ Grayson
—Lynne Cox
✸ Between the World and Me
—Ta-Nehisi Coates
✸ Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across Americas’s Most Hopeful Landscape
—Bill McKibben
Where the Past Begins
—Amy Tan
✸ The Rakkasans: A Vietnam Veteran’s Memoir
—Andrew Robbins
✸ Blue Mind; The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water
Can Make You Happier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
—Wallace J.Nichols
—Lynn Olsen
✸ The Clay Girl
—Heather Tucker
✸ Three Day Road
—Joseph Boyden
✸ Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
—Erica Armstrong Dunbar
✸ Americanah
—Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
✸ Halfway to Halfway and Back: More River Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Winford & Bob Volpert
✸ Grayson
—Lynne Cox
✸ Between the World and Me
—Ta-Nehisi Coates
✸ Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across Americas’s Most Hopeful Landscape
—Bill McKibben
Where the Past Begins
—Amy Tan
✸ The Rakkasans: A Vietnam Veteran’s Memoir
—Andrew Robbins
✸ Blue Mind; The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water
Can Make You Happier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
—Wallace J.Nichols
✸ The Mapmaker’s Wife
—Robert Whitaker
✸ Quiet Until the Thaw
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Shell Collector
—Anthony Doerr
✸ If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
—Alan Alda
✸ North of Crazy
—Neltje
✸ Blood Will Tell
—Dana Stabenow
✸ Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
—Joe Jackson
The Blue Flower
—Penelope Fitzgerald
—Robert Whitaker
✸ Quiet Until the Thaw
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Shell Collector
—Anthony Doerr
✸ If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
—Alan Alda
✸ North of Crazy
—Neltje
✸ Blood Will Tell
—Dana Stabenow
✸ Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
—Joe Jackson
The Blue Flower
—Penelope Fitzgerald
✸ A Man Called Ove
—Fredrik Backman
✸ Leaving Before the Rains Come
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
The Burglar in the Library
—Lawrence Block
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
—Lawrence Block
✸ H is for Hawk
—Helen Macdonald
The Hurricane Sisters
—Dorothea Benton Frank
✸ This House is Not for Sale
—E. C. Osondu
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
—Katherine Boo
✸ Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909
—Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
✸ Rouge River Journal
—JohnDaniel
✸ The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
—Hilary Mantel
✸ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
—Rebbeca Skloot
✸ The Wallcreeper
—Neil Zink
✸ The Map of Enough: One Woman’s Search for Enough
—Molly Caro May
✸ Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
—Jon Krakauer
—Fredrik Backman
✸ Leaving Before the Rains Come
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
The Burglar in the Library
—Lawrence Block
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
—Lawrence Block
✸ H is for Hawk
—Helen Macdonald
The Hurricane Sisters
—Dorothea Benton Frank
✸ This House is Not for Sale
—E. C. Osondu
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
—Katherine Boo
✸ Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909
—Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
✸ Rouge River Journal
—JohnDaniel
✸ The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
—Hilary Mantel
✸ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
—Rebbeca Skloot
✸ The Wallcreeper
—Neil Zink
✸ The Map of Enough: One Woman’s Search for Enough
—Molly Caro May
✸ Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
—Jon Krakauer
✸ A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
—Suzanne Joinson
✸ The Aviator's Wife
—Melanie Benjamin
✸ The Rosie Project
—Graeme Simsion
The Boston Girl
—Anita Diamant
✸ An Unnecessary Woman
—Rabih Alameddine
✸ The Last Days of Dogtown
—Anita Diamant
A Certain Justice
—John Lescroart
The Mercy Rule
—John Lescroart
Guilt
—John Lescroart
✸ Walking It Off: A Verteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness
—Doug Peacock
Walking the Gobi: A 1600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
—Helen Thayer
Montana
—Gwen Florio
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
—Laura Munson
Mythology of the Blackfeet Indians
—complied & translated by Clark Wissier and D.C. Duvall
✸ Scraping Heaven: A Family's Journey Along the Continental Divide
—Cindy Ross
The 13th Juror
—John Lescroart
The Second Chair
—John Lescroart
The King's Curse
—Philippa Gregory
—Suzanne Joinson
✸ The Aviator's Wife
—Melanie Benjamin
✸ The Rosie Project
—Graeme Simsion
The Boston Girl
—Anita Diamant
✸ An Unnecessary Woman
—Rabih Alameddine
✸ The Last Days of Dogtown
—Anita Diamant
A Certain Justice
—John Lescroart
The Mercy Rule
—John Lescroart
Guilt
—John Lescroart
✸ Walking It Off: A Verteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness
—Doug Peacock
Walking the Gobi: A 1600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
—Helen Thayer
Montana
—Gwen Florio
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
—Laura Munson
Mythology of the Blackfeet Indians
—complied & translated by Clark Wissier and D.C. Duvall
✸ Scraping Heaven: A Family's Journey Along the Continental Divide
—Cindy Ross
The 13th Juror
—John Lescroart
The Second Chair
—John Lescroart
The King's Curse
—Philippa Gregory
✸ Spillover
—David Quammen
✸ The Same River Twice
—Alice Monroe
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
—Maya Angelou
✸ The Heart of a Woman
—Maya Angelou
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
—Farley Mowatt
✸ The Goldfinch
—Donna Tartt
August 1914
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
—Alexander McCall Smith
The Lowland
—Jhumpa Lahiri
The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
—Brock Clarke
The Patron Saint of Liars
—Ann Patchett
The Snowman
—Jo Nesbø
The Redbreast
—Jo Nesbø
The Devil’s Star
— Jo Nesbø
Spider Woman’s Daughter
—Anne Hillerman
—David Quammen
✸ The Same River Twice
—Alice Monroe
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
—Maya Angelou
✸ The Heart of a Woman
—Maya Angelou
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
—Farley Mowatt
✸ The Goldfinch
—Donna Tartt
August 1914
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
—Alexander McCall Smith
The Lowland
—Jhumpa Lahiri
The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
—Brock Clarke
The Patron Saint of Liars
—Ann Patchett
The Snowman
—Jo Nesbø
The Redbreast
—Jo Nesbø
The Devil’s Star
— Jo Nesbø
Spider Woman’s Daughter
—Anne Hillerman
✸ Brown Dog
—Jim Harrison
✸ The Kite Runner
—Khaled Hossein
✸ And the Mountains Echoed
—Khaled Hossein
The Afterlife
—Donald Antrim
✸ Bringing Up the Bodies
—Hilary Mantel
✸ God’s Country Club
—Gail Storey
✸ The Dark Path of Our Names
—Joan Swift
Drangonfly Weather
—Lois Red Elk
Light of the World
—James lee Burke
Wolf Teeth
—Henry Real Bird
We Need New Names
—NoViolet Bulawayo
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
—Sahar Delijani
✸ Last Summer of the Camperdowns
—Elizabeth Kelly
The Lord’s Motel
—Gail Storey
Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement,
and Imperfect Justice
—William E. Farr
Death and the Good Life
—Richard Hugo
Everyday Knitting: Treasures from the Ragpile
—Annemor Sundbo
✸ The Good Soldiers
—David Finkel
From the Terrace
—John O’Hara
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
—Alexander McCall Smith
Die Trying
—Lee Child
The Fleet Street Murders
—Charles Finch
✸ Death Comes for the Archbishop
—Willa Cather
✸ The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
—Anchee Min
A Death in the Small Hours
—Charles Finch
The September Society
—Charles Finch
✸ I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes
the Pacific Crest Trail
—Gail Storey
✸ Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
—Christine Byl
✸ The Bartender’s Tale
—Ivan Doig
✸ Red Azalea
—Anchee Min
✸ The Paris Wife
—Paula McClain
Tenth of December
—George Saunders
✸ Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey
—Simon Armitage
All That Is: a novel
—James Salter
✸ Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
—Brené Brown
The Black Box
—Michael Connelly
Queen of the Tambourine
—Jane Gardam
✸ Old Filth
—Jane Gardam
Something of Myself: For Friends Known and Unknown
—Rudyard Kipling
The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry
—Joe Wilkins
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (A NOVEL)
—Jim Fergus
✸ The Language of Flowers
—Vanessa Diffenbaugh
✸ The River Swimmer
—Jim Harrison
✸ My Beloved World
—Sonia Sotomayor
✸ The Red Tent
—Anita Diamant
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
—Alexander McCall Smith
Good Harbor
—Anita Diamant
✸ The Lacuna
—Barbara Kingsolver
Cat Man
—Edward Hoagland
Once to Every Man
—Elizabeth Cain
Live by Night
—Dennis Lehane
✸ Halfway to Halfway & Other River Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Linford and Bob Volpert
✸ Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
—Robert K. Massie
Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and
tragedy on the last of the West’s great rivers
—Jo Deurbrouck
✸ Cleopatra: A Life
—Stacy Schiff
The Lifeboat: A Novel
—Charlotte Rogan
Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino
—Jane V. Blanchard
✸ Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
—D.B. Johnson
✸ A Monk Swimming
—Malachy McCourt
✸ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
—Sherman Alexie
✸ Blue Nude
—Elizabeth Rosner
Creole Belle
—James Lee Burke
Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album
—Teresa Jordan
The Fault in Our Stars
—John Green
Lincoln: Volume 1, The Prairie Years
—Carl Sandburg
Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
—Lynne Truss
Three Hundred Zeros:
Lessons on the Heart of the Appalachian Trail
—Dennis R. Blanchard
✸ Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
—Blaine Harden
Old New York: Four Novellas
—Edith Wharton
✸ Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year
—Charles Bracelen Flood
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
—Cheryl Strayed
✸ Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Island at the Center of the World
—Russell Shorto
✸ Dreaming in Cuban
—Cristina García
✸ The Piano Tuner
—Daniel Mason
The Lock Artist
—Steve Hamilton
✸ Can You Relax In My House
—Michael Earl Craig
Rocky Mountain Natural History: Grand Teton to Jasper
—Daniel Mason
Yes, Master
—Michael Earl Craig
✸ A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
—Marina Lewycka
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
—Philip Connors
✸ The Geese of Beaver Bog
—Bernd Heinrich
Black Sun
—Edward Abbey
Old Men at Midnight
—Chaim Potok
The Rope
—Nevada Barr
✸ The Wolverine Way
—Douglas H. Chadwick
✸ Hungry Lightning:
Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela
—Pei-Lin Yu
✸ Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall
of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
—S.C Gwynne
✸ Infidel
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Wisdom of No Escape
—Pema Chodron
✸ Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
—Wade Davis
✸ Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff
—Rosemary Mahoney
✸ As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
(one man’s escape from a Siberian labour camp)
—Joseph M. Bauer
✸ Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
—Laura Hillenbrand
✸ Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
—Roz Savage
A Fortunate Life (memoir from the West Australia frontier)
—A.B. Facey
I See Rude People: One Woman’s Battle to Beat Some Manners into Impolite Society
—Amy Alkon
This is Not the Ivy League
—Mary Clearman Blue
Desert Places: A Woman’s Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desert
—Robyn Davidson
Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse’s Life
—Mary Jane Nealon
✸ Sleeping in a Truck
—Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
✸ Jombang Jet
—Michael Earl Craig
Seasons of Glory: Haiku Poems of Remembrance
—Al Brown
✸ The Help
—Kathryn Stockett
✸ The Cave
—Jose Saramago
Deer Hunting With Jesus
—Joe Bageant
We Were the Mulvaneys
—Joyce Carol Oates
Get Shorty
—Elmore Leonard
Where Men Win Glory
—Jon Krakauer
The Toughest Indian in the World
—Sherman Alexie
The Stuff of Life
—Karen Karbo
✸ Cochabamba! Water in Bolivia
—Oscar Olivera
✸ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
—John Perkins
✸ Vietcong at Wounded Knee:
The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
—Woody Kipp
Counting Coup: The True Story of Basketball and Honor
on the Little Big Horn
—Larry Colton
Purple Cane Road
—James Lee Burke
How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great
—Karen Karbo
—Jim Harrison
✸ The Kite Runner
—Khaled Hossein
✸ And the Mountains Echoed
—Khaled Hossein
The Afterlife
—Donald Antrim
✸ Bringing Up the Bodies
—Hilary Mantel
✸ God’s Country Club
—Gail Storey
✸ The Dark Path of Our Names
—Joan Swift
Drangonfly Weather
—Lois Red Elk
Light of the World
—James lee Burke
Wolf Teeth
—Henry Real Bird
We Need New Names
—NoViolet Bulawayo
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
—Sahar Delijani
✸ Last Summer of the Camperdowns
—Elizabeth Kelly
The Lord’s Motel
—Gail Storey
Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement,
and Imperfect Justice
—William E. Farr
Death and the Good Life
—Richard Hugo
Everyday Knitting: Treasures from the Ragpile
—Annemor Sundbo
✸ The Good Soldiers
—David Finkel
From the Terrace
—John O’Hara
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
—Alexander McCall Smith
Die Trying
—Lee Child
The Fleet Street Murders
—Charles Finch
✸ Death Comes for the Archbishop
—Willa Cather
✸ The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
—Anchee Min
A Death in the Small Hours
—Charles Finch
The September Society
—Charles Finch
✸ I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes
the Pacific Crest Trail
—Gail Storey
✸ Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
—Christine Byl
✸ The Bartender’s Tale
—Ivan Doig
✸ Red Azalea
—Anchee Min
✸ The Paris Wife
—Paula McClain
Tenth of December
—George Saunders
✸ Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey
—Simon Armitage
All That Is: a novel
—James Salter
✸ Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
—Brené Brown
The Black Box
—Michael Connelly
Queen of the Tambourine
—Jane Gardam
✸ Old Filth
—Jane Gardam
Something of Myself: For Friends Known and Unknown
—Rudyard Kipling
The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry
—Joe Wilkins
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (A NOVEL)
—Jim Fergus
✸ The Language of Flowers
—Vanessa Diffenbaugh
✸ The River Swimmer
—Jim Harrison
✸ My Beloved World
—Sonia Sotomayor
✸ The Red Tent
—Anita Diamant
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
—Alexander McCall Smith
Good Harbor
—Anita Diamant
✸ The Lacuna
—Barbara Kingsolver
Cat Man
—Edward Hoagland
Once to Every Man
—Elizabeth Cain
Live by Night
—Dennis Lehane
✸ Halfway to Halfway & Other River Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Linford and Bob Volpert
✸ Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
—Robert K. Massie
Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and
tragedy on the last of the West’s great rivers
—Jo Deurbrouck
✸ Cleopatra: A Life
—Stacy Schiff
The Lifeboat: A Novel
—Charlotte Rogan
Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino
—Jane V. Blanchard
✸ Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
—D.B. Johnson
✸ A Monk Swimming
—Malachy McCourt
✸ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
—Sherman Alexie
✸ Blue Nude
—Elizabeth Rosner
Creole Belle
—James Lee Burke
Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album
—Teresa Jordan
The Fault in Our Stars
—John Green
Lincoln: Volume 1, The Prairie Years
—Carl Sandburg
Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
—Lynne Truss
Three Hundred Zeros:
Lessons on the Heart of the Appalachian Trail
—Dennis R. Blanchard
✸ Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
—Blaine Harden
Old New York: Four Novellas
—Edith Wharton
✸ Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year
—Charles Bracelen Flood
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
—Cheryl Strayed
✸ Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Island at the Center of the World
—Russell Shorto
✸ Dreaming in Cuban
—Cristina García
✸ The Piano Tuner
—Daniel Mason
The Lock Artist
—Steve Hamilton
✸ Can You Relax In My House
—Michael Earl Craig
Rocky Mountain Natural History: Grand Teton to Jasper
—Daniel Mason
Yes, Master
—Michael Earl Craig
✸ A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
—Marina Lewycka
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
—Philip Connors
✸ The Geese of Beaver Bog
—Bernd Heinrich
Black Sun
—Edward Abbey
Old Men at Midnight
—Chaim Potok
The Rope
—Nevada Barr
✸ The Wolverine Way
—Douglas H. Chadwick
✸ Hungry Lightning:
Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela
—Pei-Lin Yu
✸ Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall
of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
—S.C Gwynne
✸ Infidel
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Wisdom of No Escape
—Pema Chodron
✸ Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
—Wade Davis
✸ Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff
—Rosemary Mahoney
✸ As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
(one man’s escape from a Siberian labour camp)
—Joseph M. Bauer
✸ Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
—Laura Hillenbrand
✸ Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
—Roz Savage
A Fortunate Life (memoir from the West Australia frontier)
—A.B. Facey
I See Rude People: One Woman’s Battle to Beat Some Manners into Impolite Society
—Amy Alkon
This is Not the Ivy League
—Mary Clearman Blue
Desert Places: A Woman’s Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desert
—Robyn Davidson
Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse’s Life
—Mary Jane Nealon
✸ Sleeping in a Truck
—Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
✸ Jombang Jet
—Michael Earl Craig
Seasons of Glory: Haiku Poems of Remembrance
—Al Brown
✸ The Help
—Kathryn Stockett
✸ The Cave
—Jose Saramago
Deer Hunting With Jesus
—Joe Bageant
We Were the Mulvaneys
—Joyce Carol Oates
Get Shorty
—Elmore Leonard
Where Men Win Glory
—Jon Krakauer
The Toughest Indian in the World
—Sherman Alexie
The Stuff of Life
—Karen Karbo
✸ Cochabamba! Water in Bolivia
—Oscar Olivera
✸ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
—John Perkins
✸ Vietcong at Wounded Knee:
The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
—Woody Kipp
Counting Coup: The True Story of Basketball and Honor
on the Little Big Horn
—Larry Colton
Purple Cane Road
—James Lee Burke
How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great
—Karen Karbo
✸ Rules of Civility
—Amor Towles
Dark Sacred Night
—Michael Connelly
✸ A Map of Salt and Stars
—Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
✸ A Gentleman in Moscow
—Amor Towles
✸ The Table Where Rich People Sit
—Byrd Baylor
✸ Everybody Needs a Rock
—Byrd Baylor
—Amor Towles
Dark Sacred Night
—Michael Connelly
✸ A Map of Salt and Stars
—Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
✸ A Gentleman in Moscow
—Amor Towles
✸ The Table Where Rich People Sit
—Byrd Baylor
✸ Everybody Needs a Rock
—Byrd Baylor
✸ The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
—David Quammen
✸ A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic
—Peter Wadhams
✸ All the Light We Cannot See
—Anthony Doerr
Unsheltered
—Barbara Kingsolver
✸ Under the Shadows
—Gwen Florio
✸ Silent Hearts
—Gwen Florio
✸ The Girl from the River
—Elizabeth Cain
The Jump-Off Creek
—Molly Gloss
✸ Hearts of Horses
—Molly Gloss
✸ Girl Waits with Gun
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit
—Amy Stewart
—David Quammen
✸ A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic
—Peter Wadhams
✸ All the Light We Cannot See
—Anthony Doerr
Unsheltered
—Barbara Kingsolver
✸ Under the Shadows
—Gwen Florio
✸ Silent Hearts
—Gwen Florio
✸ The Girl from the River
—Elizabeth Cain
The Jump-Off Creek
—Molly Gloss
✸ Hearts of Horses
—Molly Gloss
✸ Girl Waits with Gun
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit
—Amy Stewart
✸ Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest Hour
—Lynn Olsen
✸ The Clay Girl
—Heather Tucker
✸ Three Day Road
—Joseph Boyden
✸ Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
—Erica Armstrong Dunbar
✸ Americanah
—Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
✸ Grayson
—Lynne Cox
✸ Between the World and Me
—Ta-Nehisi Coates
✸ Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across Americas’s Most Hopeful Landscape
—Bill McKibben
Where the Past Begins
—Amy Tan
✸ The Rakkasans: A Vietnam Veteran’s Memoir
—Andrew Robbins
✸ Blue Mind; The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water
Can Make You Happier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
—Wallace J.Nichols
—Lynn Olsen
✸ The Clay Girl
—Heather Tucker
✸ Three Day Road
—Joseph Boyden
✸ Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
—Erica Armstrong Dunbar
✸ Americanah
—Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
✸ Grayson
—Lynne Cox
✸ Between the World and Me
—Ta-Nehisi Coates
✸ Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across Americas’s Most Hopeful Landscape
—Bill McKibben
Where the Past Begins
—Amy Tan
✸ The Rakkasans: A Vietnam Veteran’s Memoir
—Andrew Robbins
✸ Blue Mind; The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water
Can Make You Happier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
—Wallace J.Nichols
✸ The Mapmaker’s Wife
—Robert Whitaker
✸ Quiet Until the Thaw
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Shell Collector
—Anthony Doerr
✸ If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
—Alan Alda
✸ North of Crazy
—Neltje
✸ Blood Will Tell
—Dana Stabenow
✸ Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
—Joe Jackson
The Blue Flower
—Penelope Fitzgerald
—Robert Whitaker
✸ Quiet Until the Thaw
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Shell Collector
—Anthony Doerr
✸ If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
—Alan Alda
✸ North of Crazy
—Neltje
✸ Blood Will Tell
—Dana Stabenow
✸ Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
—Joe Jackson
The Blue Flower
—Penelope Fitzgerald
✸ A Man Called Ove
—Fredrik Backman
✸ Leaving Before the Rains Come
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
The Burglar in the Library
—Lawrence Block
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
—Lawrence Block
✸ H is for Hawk
—Helen Macdonald
The Hurricane Sisters
—Dorothea Benton Frank
✸ This House is Not for Sale
—E. C. Osondu
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
—Katherine Boo
✸ Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909
—Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
✸ Rouge River Journal
—JohnDaniel
✸ The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
—Hilary Mantel
✸ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
—Rebbeca Skloot
✸ The Wallcreeper
—Neil Zink
✸ The Map of Enough: One Woman’s Search for Enough
—Molly Caro May
✸ Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
—Jon Krakauer
—Fredrik Backman
✸ Leaving Before the Rains Come
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
The Burglar in the Library
—Lawrence Block
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
—Lawrence Block
✸ H is for Hawk
—Helen Macdonald
The Hurricane Sisters
—Dorothea Benton Frank
✸ This House is Not for Sale
—E. C. Osondu
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
—Katherine Boo
✸ Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909
—Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
✸ Rouge River Journal
—JohnDaniel
✸ The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
—Hilary Mantel
✸ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
—Rebbeca Skloot
✸ The Wallcreeper
—Neil Zink
✸ The Map of Enough: One Woman’s Search for Enough
—Molly Caro May
✸ Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
—Jon Krakauer
✸ A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
—Suzanne Joinson
✸ The Aviator's Wife
—Melanie Benjamin
✸ The Rosie Project
—Graeme Simsion
The Boston Girl
—Anita Diamant
✸ An Unnecessary Woman
—Rabih Alameddine
✸ The Last Days of Dogtown
—Anita Diamant
A Certain Justice
—John Lescroart
The Mercy Rule
—John Lescroart
Guilt
—John Lescroart
✸ Walking It Off: A Verteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness
—Doug Peacock
Walking the Gobi: A 1600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
—Helen Thayer
Montana
—Gwen Florio
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
—Laura Munson
Mythology of the Blackfeet Indians
—complied & translated by Clark Wissier and D.C. Duvall
✸ Scraping Heaven: A Family's Journey Along the Continental Divide
—Cindy Ross
The 13th Juror
—John Lescroart
The Second Chair
—John Lescroart
The King's Curse
—Philippa Gregory
—Suzanne Joinson
✸ The Aviator's Wife
—Melanie Benjamin
✸ The Rosie Project
—Graeme Simsion
The Boston Girl
—Anita Diamant
✸ An Unnecessary Woman
—Rabih Alameddine
✸ The Last Days of Dogtown
—Anita Diamant
A Certain Justice
—John Lescroart
The Mercy Rule
—John Lescroart
Guilt
—John Lescroart
✸ Walking It Off: A Verteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness
—Doug Peacock
Walking the Gobi: A 1600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
—Helen Thayer
Montana
—Gwen Florio
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
—Laura Munson
Mythology of the Blackfeet Indians
—complied & translated by Clark Wissier and D.C. Duvall
✸ Scraping Heaven: A Family's Journey Along the Continental Divide
—Cindy Ross
The 13th Juror
—John Lescroart
The Second Chair
—John Lescroart
The King's Curse
—Philippa Gregory
✸ Spillover
—David Quammen
✸ The Same River Twice
—Alice Monroe
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
—Maya Angelou
✸ The Heart of a Woman
—Maya Angelou
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
—Farley Mowatt
✸ The Goldfinch
—Donna Tartt
August 1914
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
—Alexander McCall Smith
The Lowland
—Jhumpa Lahiri
The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
—Brock Clarke
The Patron Saint of Liars
—Ann Patchett
The Snowman
—Jo Nesbø
The Redbreast
—Jo Nesbø
The Devil’s Star
— Jo Nesbø
Spider Woman’s Daughter
—Anne Hillerman
—David Quammen
✸ The Same River Twice
—Alice Monroe
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
—Maya Angelou
✸ The Heart of a Woman
—Maya Angelou
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
—Farley Mowatt
✸ The Goldfinch
—Donna Tartt
August 1914
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
—Alexander McCall Smith
The Lowland
—Jhumpa Lahiri
The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
—Brock Clarke
The Patron Saint of Liars
—Ann Patchett
The Snowman
—Jo Nesbø
The Redbreast
—Jo Nesbø
The Devil’s Star
— Jo Nesbø
Spider Woman’s Daughter
—Anne Hillerman
✸ Brown Dog
—Jim Harrison
✸ The Kite Runner
—Khaled Hossein
✸ And the Mountains Echoed
—Khaled Hossein
The Afterlife
—Donald Antrim
✸ Bringing Up the Bodies
—Hilary Mantel
✸ God’s Country Club
—Gail Storey
✸ The Dark Path of Our Names
—Joan Swift
Drangonfly Weather
—Lois Red Elk
Light of the World
—James lee Burke
Wolf Teeth
—Henry Real Bird
We Need New Names
—NoViolet Bulawayo
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
—Sahar Delijani
✸ Last Summer of the Camperdowns
—Elizabeth Kelly
The Lord’s Motel
—Gail Storey
Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement,
and Imperfect Justice
—William E. Farr
Death and the Good Life
—Richard Hugo
Everyday Knitting: Treasures from the Ragpile
—Annemor Sundbo
✸ The Good Soldiers
—David Finkel
From the Terrace
—John O’Hara
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
—Alexander McCall Smith
Die Trying
—Lee Child
The Fleet Street Murders
—Charles Finch
✸ Death Comes for the Archbishop
—Willa Cather
✸ The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
—Anchee Min
A Death in the Small Hours
—Charles Finch
The September Society
—Charles Finch
✸ I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes
the Pacific Crest Trail
—Gail Storey
✸ Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
—Christine Byl
✸ The Bartender’s Tale
—Ivan Doig
✸ Red Azalea
—Anchee Min
✸ The Paris Wife
—Paula McClain
Tenth of December
—George Saunders
✸ Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey
—Simon Armitage
All That Is: a novel
—James Salter
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
—Brené Brown
The Black Box
—Michael Connelly
Queen of the Tambourine
—Jane Gardam
✸ Old Filth
—Jane Gardam
Something of Myself: For Friends Known and Unknown
—Rudyard Kipling
The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry
—Joe Wilkins
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (A NOVEL)
—Jim Fergus
✸ The Language of Flowers
—Vanessa Diffenbaugh
✸ The River Swimmer
—Jim Harrison
✸ My Beloved World
—Sonia Sotomayor
✸ The Red Tent
—Anita Diamant
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
—Alexander McCall Smith
Good Harbor
—Anita Diamant
✸ The Lacuna
—Barbara Kingsolver
Cat Man
—Edward Hoagland
Once to Every Man
—Elizabeth Cain
Live by Night
—Dennis Lehane
Halfway to Halfway & Other River Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Linford and Bob Volpert
✸ Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
—Robert K. Massie
Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and
tragedy on the last of the West’s great rivers
—Jo Deurbrouck
✸ Cleopatra: A Life
—Stacy Schiff
The Lifeboat: A Novel
—Charlotte Rogan
Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino
—Jane V. Blanchard
✸ Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
—D.B. Johnson
✸ A Monk Swimming
—Malachy McCourt
✸ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
—Sherman Alexie
✸ Blue Nude
—Elizabeth Rosner
Creole Belle
—James Lee Burke
Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album
—Teresa Jordan
The Fault in Our Stars
—John Green
Lincoln: Volume 1, The Prairie Years
—Carl Sandburg
Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
—Lynne Truss
Three Hundred Zeros:
Lessons on the Heart of the Appalachian Trail
—Dennis R. Blanchard
✸ Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from
North Korea to Freedom in the West
—Blaine Harden
Old New York: Four Novellas
—Edith Wharton
✸ Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year
—Charles Bracelen Flood
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
—Cheryl Strayed
✸ Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Island at the Center of the World
—Russell Shorto
✸ Dreaming in Cuban
—Cristina García
✸ The Piano Tuner
—Daniel Mason
The Lock Artist
—Steve Hamilton
✸ Can You Relax In My House
—Michael Earl Craig
Rocky Mountain Natural History: Grand Teton to Jasper
—Daniel Mason
Yes, Master
—Michael Earl Craig
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
—Marina Lewycka
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
—Philip Connors
✸ The Geese of Beaver Bog
—Bernd Heinrich
Black Sun
—Edward Abbey
Old Men at Midnight
—Chaim Potok
The Rope
—Nevada Barr
✸ The Wolverine Way
—Douglas H. Chadwick
✸ Hungry Lightning:
Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela
—Pei-Lin Yu
✸ Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall
of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
—S.C Gwynne
✸ Infidel
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Wisdom of No Escape
—Pema Chodron
✸ Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
—Wade Davis
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff
—Rosemary Mahoney
✸ As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
(one man’s escape from a Siberian labour camp)
—Joseph M. Bauer
✸ Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
—Laura Hillenbrand
✸ Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
—Roz Savage
A Fortunate Life (memoir from the West Australia frontier)
—A.B. Facey
I See Rude People: One Woman’s Battle to Beat Some Manners into Impolite Society
—Amy Alkon
This is Not the Ivy League
—Mary Clearman Blue
Desert Places: A Woman’s Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desert
—Robyn Davidson
Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse’s Life
—Mary Jane Nealon
✸ Sleeping in a Truck
—Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
✸ Jombang Jet
—Michael Earl Craig
Seasons of Glory: Haiku Poems of Remembrance
—Al Brown
✸ The Help
—Kathryn Stockett
✸ The Cave
—Jose Saramago
Deer Hunting With Jesus
—Joe Bageant
We Were the Mulvaneys
—Joyce Carol Oates
Get Shorty
—Elmore Leonard
Where Men Win Glory
—Jon Krakauer
The Toughest Indian in the World
—Sherman Alexie
The Stuff of Life
—Karen Karbo
Cochabamba! Water in Bolivia
—Oscar Olivera
✸ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
—John Perkins
✸ Vietcong at Wounded Knee:
The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
—Woody Kipp
Counting Coup: The True Story of Basketball and Honor
on the Little Big Horn
—Larry Colton
Purple Cane Road
—James Lee Burke
How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great
—Karen Karbo
—Jim Harrison
✸ The Kite Runner
—Khaled Hossein
✸ And the Mountains Echoed
—Khaled Hossein
The Afterlife
—Donald Antrim
✸ Bringing Up the Bodies
—Hilary Mantel
✸ God’s Country Club
—Gail Storey
✸ The Dark Path of Our Names
—Joan Swift
Drangonfly Weather
—Lois Red Elk
Light of the World
—James lee Burke
Wolf Teeth
—Henry Real Bird
We Need New Names
—NoViolet Bulawayo
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
—Sahar Delijani
✸ Last Summer of the Camperdowns
—Elizabeth Kelly
The Lord’s Motel
—Gail Storey
Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement,
and Imperfect Justice
—William E. Farr
Death and the Good Life
—Richard Hugo
Everyday Knitting: Treasures from the Ragpile
—Annemor Sundbo
✸ The Good Soldiers
—David Finkel
From the Terrace
—John O’Hara
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
—Alexander McCall Smith
Die Trying
—Lee Child
The Fleet Street Murders
—Charles Finch
✸ Death Comes for the Archbishop
—Willa Cather
✸ The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
—Anchee Min
A Death in the Small Hours
—Charles Finch
The September Society
—Charles Finch
✸ I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes
the Pacific Crest Trail
—Gail Storey
✸ Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
—Christine Byl
✸ The Bartender’s Tale
—Ivan Doig
✸ Red Azalea
—Anchee Min
✸ The Paris Wife
—Paula McClain
Tenth of December
—George Saunders
✸ Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey
—Simon Armitage
All That Is: a novel
—James Salter
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
—Brené Brown
The Black Box
—Michael Connelly
Queen of the Tambourine
—Jane Gardam
✸ Old Filth
—Jane Gardam
Something of Myself: For Friends Known and Unknown
—Rudyard Kipling
The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry
—Joe Wilkins
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (A NOVEL)
—Jim Fergus
✸ The Language of Flowers
—Vanessa Diffenbaugh
✸ The River Swimmer
—Jim Harrison
✸ My Beloved World
—Sonia Sotomayor
✸ The Red Tent
—Anita Diamant
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
—Alexander McCall Smith
Good Harbor
—Anita Diamant
✸ The Lacuna
—Barbara Kingsolver
Cat Man
—Edward Hoagland
Once to Every Man
—Elizabeth Cain
Live by Night
—Dennis Lehane
Halfway to Halfway & Other River Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Linford and Bob Volpert
✸ Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
—Robert K. Massie
Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and
tragedy on the last of the West’s great rivers
—Jo Deurbrouck
✸ Cleopatra: A Life
—Stacy Schiff
The Lifeboat: A Novel
—Charlotte Rogan
Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino
—Jane V. Blanchard
✸ Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
—D.B. Johnson
✸ A Monk Swimming
—Malachy McCourt
✸ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
—Sherman Alexie
✸ Blue Nude
—Elizabeth Rosner
Creole Belle
—James Lee Burke
Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album
—Teresa Jordan
The Fault in Our Stars
—John Green
Lincoln: Volume 1, The Prairie Years
—Carl Sandburg
Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
—Lynne Truss
Three Hundred Zeros:
Lessons on the Heart of the Appalachian Trail
—Dennis R. Blanchard
✸ Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from
North Korea to Freedom in the West
—Blaine Harden
Old New York: Four Novellas
—Edith Wharton
✸ Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year
—Charles Bracelen Flood
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
—Cheryl Strayed
✸ Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Island at the Center of the World
—Russell Shorto
✸ Dreaming in Cuban
—Cristina García
✸ The Piano Tuner
—Daniel Mason
The Lock Artist
—Steve Hamilton
✸ Can You Relax In My House
—Michael Earl Craig
Rocky Mountain Natural History: Grand Teton to Jasper
—Daniel Mason
Yes, Master
—Michael Earl Craig
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
—Marina Lewycka
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
—Philip Connors
✸ The Geese of Beaver Bog
—Bernd Heinrich
Black Sun
—Edward Abbey
Old Men at Midnight
—Chaim Potok
The Rope
—Nevada Barr
✸ The Wolverine Way
—Douglas H. Chadwick
✸ Hungry Lightning:
Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela
—Pei-Lin Yu
✸ Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall
of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
—S.C Gwynne
✸ Infidel
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Wisdom of No Escape
—Pema Chodron
✸ Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
—Wade Davis
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff
—Rosemary Mahoney
✸ As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
(one man’s escape from a Siberian labour camp)
—Joseph M. Bauer
✸ Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
—Laura Hillenbrand
✸ Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
—Roz Savage
A Fortunate Life (memoir from the West Australia frontier)
—A.B. Facey
I See Rude People: One Woman’s Battle to Beat Some Manners into Impolite Society
—Amy Alkon
This is Not the Ivy League
—Mary Clearman Blue
Desert Places: A Woman’s Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desert
—Robyn Davidson
Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse’s Life
—Mary Jane Nealon
✸ Sleeping in a Truck
—Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
✸ Jombang Jet
—Michael Earl Craig
Seasons of Glory: Haiku Poems of Remembrance
—Al Brown
✸ The Help
—Kathryn Stockett
✸ The Cave
—Jose Saramago
Deer Hunting With Jesus
—Joe Bageant
We Were the Mulvaneys
—Joyce Carol Oates
Get Shorty
—Elmore Leonard
Where Men Win Glory
—Jon Krakauer
The Toughest Indian in the World
—Sherman Alexie
The Stuff of Life
—Karen Karbo
Cochabamba! Water in Bolivia
—Oscar Olivera
✸ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
—John Perkins
✸ Vietcong at Wounded Knee:
The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
—Woody Kipp
Counting Coup: The True Story of Basketball and Honor
on the Little Big Horn
—Larry Colton
Purple Cane Road
—James Lee Burke
How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great
—Karen Karbo
✸ Rules of Civility
—Amor Towles
Dark Sacred Night
—Michael Connelly
✸ A Map of Salt and Stars
—Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
✸ A Gentleman in Moscow
—Amor Towles
✸ The Table Where Rich People Sit
—Byrd Baylor
✸ Everybody Needs a Rock
—Byrd Baylor
—Amor Towles
Dark Sacred Night
—Michael Connelly
✸ A Map of Salt and Stars
—Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
✸ A Gentleman in Moscow
—Amor Towles
✸ The Table Where Rich People Sit
—Byrd Baylor
✸ Everybody Needs a Rock
—Byrd Baylor
✸ The Tangled Tree: A Radical New
History of Life
—David Quammen
✸ A Farewell to Ice: A Report from
the Arctic
—Peter Wadhams
✸ All the Light We Cannot See
—Anthony Doerr
Unsheltered
—Barbara Kingsolver
✸ Under the Shadows
—Gwen Florio
✸ Silent Hearts
—Gwen Florio
✸ The Girl from the River
—Elizabeth Cain
The Jump-Off Creek
—Molly Gloss
✸ Hearts of Horses
—Molly Gloss
✸ Girl Waits with Gun
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit
—Amy Stewart
History of Life
—David Quammen
✸ A Farewell to Ice: A Report from
the Arctic
—Peter Wadhams
✸ All the Light We Cannot See
—Anthony Doerr
Unsheltered
—Barbara Kingsolver
✸ Under the Shadows
—Gwen Florio
✸ Silent Hearts
—Gwen Florio
✸ The Girl from the River
—Elizabeth Cain
The Jump-Off Creek
—Molly Gloss
✸ Hearts of Horses
—Molly Gloss
✸ Girl Waits with Gun
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions
—Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit
—Amy Stewart
✸ Citizens of London: The Americans
Who Stood with Britain in Its
Darkest Hour
—Lynn Olsen
✸ The Clay Girl
—Heather Tucker
✸ Three Day Road
—Joseph Boyden
✸ Never Caught: The Washington’s
Relentless Pursuit of Their
Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
—Erica Armstrong Dunbar
✸ Americanah
—Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
✸ Halfway to Halfway and Back: More River Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Winford & Bob Volpert
✸ Grayson
—Lynne Cox
✸ Between the World and Me
—Ta-Nehisi Coates
✸ Wandering Home: A Long Walk
Across Americas’s Most Hopeful
Landscape
—Bill McKibben
Where the Past Begins
—Amy Tan
✸ The Rakkasans: A Vietnam
Veteran’s Memoir
—Andrew Robbins
Who Stood with Britain in Its
Darkest Hour
—Lynn Olsen
✸ The Clay Girl
—Heather Tucker
✸ Three Day Road
—Joseph Boyden
✸ Never Caught: The Washington’s
Relentless Pursuit of Their
Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
—Erica Armstrong Dunbar
✸ Americanah
—Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
✸ Halfway to Halfway and Back: More River Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Winford & Bob Volpert
✸ Grayson
—Lynne Cox
✸ Between the World and Me
—Ta-Nehisi Coates
✸ Wandering Home: A Long Walk
Across Americas’s Most Hopeful
Landscape
—Bill McKibben
Where the Past Begins
—Amy Tan
✸ The Rakkasans: A Vietnam
Veteran’s Memoir
—Andrew Robbins
✸ The Mapmaker’s Wife
—Robert Whitaker
✸ Quiet Until the Thaw
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Shell Collector
—Anthony Doerr
✸ If I Understood You, Would I Have
This Look on My Face?
—Alan Alda
✸ North of Crazy
—Neltje
✸ Blood Will Tell
—Dana Stabenow
✸ Black Elk: The Life of an American
Visionary
—Joe Jackson
The Blue Flower
—Penelope Fitzgerald
—Robert Whitaker
✸ Quiet Until the Thaw
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Shell Collector
—Anthony Doerr
✸ If I Understood You, Would I Have
This Look on My Face?
—Alan Alda
✸ North of Crazy
—Neltje
✸ Blood Will Tell
—Dana Stabenow
✸ Black Elk: The Life of an American
Visionary
—Joe Jackson
The Blue Flower
—Penelope Fitzgerald
✸ A Man Called Ove
—Fredrik Backman
✸ Leaving Before the Rains Come
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ Blue Mind; The Surprising Science
That Shows How Being Near, In,
On, or Under Water Can Make You
Happier, More Connected, and
Better at What You Do
—Wallace J.Nichols
The Burglar in the Library
—Lawrence Block
The Burglar Who Traded Ted
Williams
—Lawrence Block
✸ H is for Hawk
—Helen Macdonald
The Hurricane Sisters
—Dorothea Benton Frank
✸ This House is Not for Sale
—E. C. Osondu
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
—Katherine Boo
✸ Two Wheels North: Bicycling the
West Coast in 1909
—Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
✸ Rouge River Journal
—JohnDaniel
✸ The Assassination of Margaret
Thatcher
—Hilary Mantel
✸ The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Lacks
—Rebbeca Skloot
✸ The Wallcreeper
—Neil Zink
✸ The Map of Enough: One
Woman’s Search for Enough
—Molly Caro May
✸ Missoula: Rape and the Justice
System in a College Town
—Jon Krakauer
—Fredrik Backman
✸ Leaving Before the Rains Come
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ Blue Mind; The Surprising Science
That Shows How Being Near, In,
On, or Under Water Can Make You
Happier, More Connected, and
Better at What You Do
—Wallace J.Nichols
The Burglar in the Library
—Lawrence Block
The Burglar Who Traded Ted
Williams
—Lawrence Block
✸ H is for Hawk
—Helen Macdonald
The Hurricane Sisters
—Dorothea Benton Frank
✸ This House is Not for Sale
—E. C. Osondu
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
—Katherine Boo
✸ Two Wheels North: Bicycling the
West Coast in 1909
—Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
✸ Rouge River Journal
—JohnDaniel
✸ The Assassination of Margaret
Thatcher
—Hilary Mantel
✸ The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Lacks
—Rebbeca Skloot
✸ The Wallcreeper
—Neil Zink
✸ The Map of Enough: One
Woman’s Search for Enough
—Molly Caro May
✸ Missoula: Rape and the Justice
System in a College Town
—Jon Krakauer
✸ A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
—Suzanne Joinson
✸ The Aviator's Wife
—Melanie Benjamin
✸ The Rosie Project
—Graeme Simsion
The Boston Girl
—Anita Diamant
✸ An Unnecessary Woman
—Rabih Alameddine
✸ The Last Days of Dogtown
—Anita Diamant
A Certain Justice
—John Lescroart
The Mercy Rule
—John Lescroart
Guilt
—John Lescroart
✸ Walking It Off: A Verteran's
Chronicle of War and Wilderness
—Doug Peacock
Walking the Gobi: A 1600-Mile
Trek Across a Desert of Hope and
Despair
—Helen Thayer
Montana
—Gwen Florio
This Is Not The Story You Think It
Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
—Laura Munson
Mythology of the Blackfeet Indians
—complied & translated by Clark Wissier
and D.C. Duvall
✸ Scraping Heaven: A Family's
Journey Along the Continental
Divide
—Cindy Ross
The 13th Juror
—John Lescroart
The Second Chair
—John Lescroart
The King's Curse
—Philippa Gregory
The Blue Flower
—Penelope Fitzgerald
—Suzanne Joinson
✸ The Aviator's Wife
—Melanie Benjamin
✸ The Rosie Project
—Graeme Simsion
The Boston Girl
—Anita Diamant
✸ An Unnecessary Woman
—Rabih Alameddine
✸ The Last Days of Dogtown
—Anita Diamant
A Certain Justice
—John Lescroart
The Mercy Rule
—John Lescroart
Guilt
—John Lescroart
✸ Walking It Off: A Verteran's
Chronicle of War and Wilderness
—Doug Peacock
Walking the Gobi: A 1600-Mile
Trek Across a Desert of Hope and
Despair
—Helen Thayer
Montana
—Gwen Florio
This Is Not The Story You Think It
Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
—Laura Munson
Mythology of the Blackfeet Indians
—complied & translated by Clark Wissier
and D.C. Duvall
✸ Scraping Heaven: A Family's
Journey Along the Continental
Divide
—Cindy Ross
The 13th Juror
—John Lescroart
The Second Chair
—John Lescroart
The King's Curse
—Philippa Gregory
The Blue Flower
—Penelope Fitzgerald
✸ Spillover
—David Quammen
✸ The Same River Twice
—Alice Monroe
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My
Journey Now
—Maya Angelou
✸ The Heart of a Woman
—Maya Angelou
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
—Farley Mowatt
✸ The Goldfinch
—Donna Tartt
August 1914
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Minor Adjustment Beauty
Salon
—Alexander McCall Smith
The Lowland
—Jhumpa Lahiri
The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’
Homes in New England
—Brock Clarke
The Patron Saint of Liars
—Ann Patches
The Snowman
—Jo Nesbø
The Redbreast
—Jo Nesbø
The Devil’s Star
— Jo Nesbø
Spider Woman’s Daughter
—Anne Hillerman
—David Quammen
✸ The Same River Twice
—Alice Monroe
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My
Journey Now
—Maya Angelou
✸ The Heart of a Woman
—Maya Angelou
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
—Farley Mowatt
✸ The Goldfinch
—Donna Tartt
August 1914
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Minor Adjustment Beauty
Salon
—Alexander McCall Smith
The Lowland
—Jhumpa Lahiri
The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’
Homes in New England
—Brock Clarke
The Patron Saint of Liars
—Ann Patches
The Snowman
—Jo Nesbø
The Redbreast
—Jo Nesbø
The Devil’s Star
— Jo Nesbø
Spider Woman’s Daughter
—Anne Hillerman
✸ Brown Dog
—Jim Harrison
✸ The Kite Runner
—Khaled Hossein
✸ And the Mountains Echoed
—Khaled Hossein
The Afterlife
—Donald Antrim
✸ Bringing Up the Bodies
—Hilary Mantel
✸ God’s Country Club
—Gail Storey
✸ The Dark Path of Our Names
—Joan Swift
Drangonfly Weather
—Lois Red Elk
Light of the World
—James lee Burke
Wolf Teeth
—Henry Real Bird
We Need New Names
—NoViolet Bulawayo
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
—Sahar Delijani
✸ Last Summer of the Camperdowns
—Elizabeth Kelly
The Lord’s Motel
—Gail Storey
Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood
Indian’s Story of Murder,
Confinement, and Imperfect
Justice
—William E. Farr
Death and the Good Life
—Richard Hugo
Everyday Knitting: Treasures from
the Ragpile
—Annemor Sundbo
✸ The Good Soldiers
—David Finkel
From the Terrace
—John O’Hara
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
—Alexander McCall Smith
Die Trying
—Lee Child
The Fleet Street Murders
—Charles Finch
✸ Death Comes for the Archbishop
—Willa Cather
✸ The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
—Anchee Min
A Death in the Small Hours
—Charles Finch
The September Society
—Charles Finch
✸ I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for
Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail
—Gail Storey
✸ Dirt Work: An Education in the
Woods
—Christine Byl
✸ The Bartender’s Tale
—Ivan Doig
✸ Red Azalea
—Anchee Min
✸ The Paris Wife
—Paula McClain
Tenth of December
—George Saunders
✸ Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey
—Simon Armitage
All That Is: a novel
—James Salter
✸ Daring Greatly: How the Courage
to Be Vulnerable Transforms the
Way We Live, Love, Parent, and
Lead
—Brené Brown
The Black Box
—Michael Connelly
Queen of the Tambourine
—Jane Gardam
✸ Old Filth
—Jane Gardam
Something of Myself: For Friends
Known and Unknown
—Rudyard Kipling
The Mountain and the Fathers:
Growing Up on the Big Dry
—Joe Wilkins
One Thousand White Women: The
Journals of May Dodd (A NOVEL)
—Jim Fergus
✸ The Language of Flowers
—Vanessa Diffenbaugh
✸ The River Swimmer
—Jim Harrison
✸ My Beloved World
—Sonia Sotomayor
✸ The Red Tent
—Anita Diamant
The Limpopo Academy of Private
Detection
—Alexander McCall Smith
Good Harbor
—Anita Diamant
✸ The Lacuna
—Barbara Kingsolver
Cat Man
—Edward Hoagland
Once to Every Man
—Elizabeth Cain
Live by Night
—Dennis Lehane
✸ Halfway to Halfway & Other River
Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Linford
and Bob Volpert
✸ Catherine the Great: Portrait of a
Woman
—Robert K. Massie
Anything Worth Doing: A true story
of adventure, friendship and
tragedy on the last of the West’s
great rivers
—Jo Deurbrouck
✸ Cleopatra: A Life
—Stacy Schiff
The Lifeboat: A Novel
—Charlotte Rogan
Women of the Way: Embracing the
Camino
—Jane V. Blanchard
✸ Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
—D.B. Johnson
✸ A Monk Swimming
—Malachy McCourt
✸ The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian
—Sherman Alexie
✸ Blue Nude
—Elizabeth Rosner
Creole Belle
—James Lee Burke
Riding the White Horse Home: A
Western Family Album
—Teresa Jordan
The Fault in Our Stars
—John Green
Lincoln: Volume 1, The Prairie Years
—Carl Sandburg
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A Zero
Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
—Lynne Truss
Three Hundred Zeros: Lessons on
the Heart of the Appalachian Trail
—Dennis R. Blanchard
✸ Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s
Remarkable Odyssey from North
Korea to Freedom in the West
—Blaine Harden
Old New York: Four Novellas
—Edith Wharton
✸ Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S.
Grant’s Heroic Last Year
—Charles Bracelen Flood
Wild: From Lost to Found on the
Pacific Crest Trail
—Cheryl Strayed
✸ Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of
Forgetfulness
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Island at the Center of the
World
—Russell Shorto
✸ Dreaming in Cuban
—Cristina García
✸ The Piano Tuner
—Daniel Mason
The Lock Artist
—Steve Hamilton
✸ Can You Relax In My House
—Michael Earl Craig
Rocky Mountain Natural History:
Grand Teton to Jasper
—Daniel Mason
Yes, Master
—Michael Earl Craig
✸ A Short History of Tractors in
Ukrainian
—Marina Lewycka
Fire Season: Field Notes from a
Wilderness Lookout
—Philip Connors
✸ The Geese of Beaver Bog
—Bernd Heinrich
Black Sun
—Edward Abbey
Old Men at Midnight
—Chaim Potok
The Rope
—Nevada Barr
✸ The Wolverine Way
—Douglas H. Chadwick
✸ Hungry Lightning: Notes of a
Woman Anthropologist in
Venezuela
—Pei-Lin Yu
✸ Empire of the Summer Moon:
Quanah Parker and the Rise and
Fall of the Comanches, the Most
Powerful Indian Tribe in American
History
—S.C Gwynne
✸ Infidel
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Wisdom of No Escape
—Pema Chodron
✸ Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom
Matters in the Modern World
—Wade Davis
Down the Nile: Alone in a
Fisherman’s Skiff
—Rosemary Mahoney
✸ As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
(one man’s escape from a Siberian
labour camp)
—Joseph M. Bauer
✸ Unbroken: A World War II Story of
Survival, Resilience, and
Redemption
—Laura Hillenbrand
✸ Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons
Learned on the Open Ocean
—Roz Savage
A Fortunate Life (memoir from the
West Australia frontier)
—A.B. Facey
I See Rude People: One Woman’s
Battle to Beat Some Manners into
Impolite Society
—Amy Alkon
This is Not the Ivy League
—Mary Clearman Blue
Desert Places: A Woman’s Odyssey
with the Wanderers of the Indian
Desert
—Robyn Davidson
Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse’s
Life
—Mary Jane Nealon
✸ Sleeping in a Truck
—Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
✸ Jombang Jet
—Michael Earl Craig
Seasons of Glory: Haiku Poems of
Remembrance
—Al Brown
✸ The Help
—Kathryn Stockett
✸ The Cave
—Jose Saramago
Deer Hunting With Jesus
—Joe Bageant
We Were the Mulvaneys
—Joyce Carol Oates
Get Shorty
—Elmore Leonard
Where Men Win Glory
—Jon Krakauer
✸ The Toughest Indian in the World
—Sherman Alexie
The Stuff of Life
—Karen Karbo
✸ Cochabamba! Water in Bolivia
—Oscar Olivera
✸ Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man
—John Perkins
✸ Vietcong at Wounded Knee: The
Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
—Woody Kipp
✸ Counting Coup: The True Story of
Basketball and Honor on the Little
Big Horn
—Larry Colton
Purple Cane Road
—James Lee Burke
How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living
from Kate the Great
—Karen Karbo
—Jim Harrison
✸ The Kite Runner
—Khaled Hossein
✸ And the Mountains Echoed
—Khaled Hossein
The Afterlife
—Donald Antrim
✸ Bringing Up the Bodies
—Hilary Mantel
✸ God’s Country Club
—Gail Storey
✸ The Dark Path of Our Names
—Joan Swift
Drangonfly Weather
—Lois Red Elk
Light of the World
—James lee Burke
Wolf Teeth
—Henry Real Bird
We Need New Names
—NoViolet Bulawayo
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
—Sahar Delijani
✸ Last Summer of the Camperdowns
—Elizabeth Kelly
The Lord’s Motel
—Gail Storey
Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood
Indian’s Story of Murder,
Confinement, and Imperfect
Justice
—William E. Farr
Death and the Good Life
—Richard Hugo
Everyday Knitting: Treasures from
the Ragpile
—Annemor Sundbo
✸ The Good Soldiers
—David Finkel
From the Terrace
—John O’Hara
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
—Alexander McCall Smith
Die Trying
—Lee Child
The Fleet Street Murders
—Charles Finch
✸ Death Comes for the Archbishop
—Willa Cather
✸ The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
—Anchee Min
A Death in the Small Hours
—Charles Finch
The September Society
—Charles Finch
✸ I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for
Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail
—Gail Storey
✸ Dirt Work: An Education in the
Woods
—Christine Byl
✸ The Bartender’s Tale
—Ivan Doig
✸ Red Azalea
—Anchee Min
✸ The Paris Wife
—Paula McClain
Tenth of December
—George Saunders
✸ Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey
—Simon Armitage
All That Is: a novel
—James Salter
✸ Daring Greatly: How the Courage
to Be Vulnerable Transforms the
Way We Live, Love, Parent, and
Lead
—Brené Brown
The Black Box
—Michael Connelly
Queen of the Tambourine
—Jane Gardam
✸ Old Filth
—Jane Gardam
Something of Myself: For Friends
Known and Unknown
—Rudyard Kipling
The Mountain and the Fathers:
Growing Up on the Big Dry
—Joe Wilkins
One Thousand White Women: The
Journals of May Dodd (A NOVEL)
—Jim Fergus
✸ The Language of Flowers
—Vanessa Diffenbaugh
✸ The River Swimmer
—Jim Harrison
✸ My Beloved World
—Sonia Sotomayor
✸ The Red Tent
—Anita Diamant
The Limpopo Academy of Private
Detection
—Alexander McCall Smith
Good Harbor
—Anita Diamant
✸ The Lacuna
—Barbara Kingsolver
Cat Man
—Edward Hoagland
Once to Every Man
—Elizabeth Cain
Live by Night
—Dennis Lehane
✸ Halfway to Halfway & Other River
Stories
—written and compiled by Dick Linford
and Bob Volpert
✸ Catherine the Great: Portrait of a
Woman
—Robert K. Massie
Anything Worth Doing: A true story
of adventure, friendship and
tragedy on the last of the West’s
great rivers
—Jo Deurbrouck
✸ Cleopatra: A Life
—Stacy Schiff
The Lifeboat: A Novel
—Charlotte Rogan
Women of the Way: Embracing the
Camino
—Jane V. Blanchard
✸ Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
—D.B. Johnson
✸ A Monk Swimming
—Malachy McCourt
✸ The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian
—Sherman Alexie
✸ Blue Nude
—Elizabeth Rosner
Creole Belle
—James Lee Burke
Riding the White Horse Home: A
Western Family Album
—Teresa Jordan
The Fault in Our Stars
—John Green
Lincoln: Volume 1, The Prairie Years
—Carl Sandburg
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A Zero
Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
—Lynne Truss
Three Hundred Zeros: Lessons on
the Heart of the Appalachian Trail
—Dennis R. Blanchard
✸ Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s
Remarkable Odyssey from North
Korea to Freedom in the West
—Blaine Harden
Old New York: Four Novellas
—Edith Wharton
✸ Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S.
Grant’s Heroic Last Year
—Charles Bracelen Flood
Wild: From Lost to Found on the
Pacific Crest Trail
—Cheryl Strayed
✸ Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of
Forgetfulness
—Alexandra “Bobo” Fuller
✸ The Island at the Center of the
World
—Russell Shorto
✸ Dreaming in Cuban
—Cristina García
✸ The Piano Tuner
—Daniel Mason
The Lock Artist
—Steve Hamilton
✸ Can You Relax In My House
—Michael Earl Craig
Rocky Mountain Natural History:
Grand Teton to Jasper
—Daniel Mason
Yes, Master
—Michael Earl Craig
✸ A Short History of Tractors in
Ukrainian
—Marina Lewycka
Fire Season: Field Notes from a
Wilderness Lookout
—Philip Connors
✸ The Geese of Beaver Bog
—Bernd Heinrich
Black Sun
—Edward Abbey
Old Men at Midnight
—Chaim Potok
The Rope
—Nevada Barr
✸ The Wolverine Way
—Douglas H. Chadwick
✸ Hungry Lightning: Notes of a
Woman Anthropologist in
Venezuela
—Pei-Lin Yu
✸ Empire of the Summer Moon:
Quanah Parker and the Rise and
Fall of the Comanches, the Most
Powerful Indian Tribe in American
History
—S.C Gwynne
✸ Infidel
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Wisdom of No Escape
—Pema Chodron
✸ Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom
Matters in the Modern World
—Wade Davis
Down the Nile: Alone in a
Fisherman’s Skiff
—Rosemary Mahoney
✸ As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
(one man’s escape from a Siberian
labour camp)
—Joseph M. Bauer
✸ Unbroken: A World War II Story of
Survival, Resilience, and
Redemption
—Laura Hillenbrand
✸ Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons
Learned on the Open Ocean
—Roz Savage
A Fortunate Life (memoir from the
West Australia frontier)
—A.B. Facey
I See Rude People: One Woman’s
Battle to Beat Some Manners into
Impolite Society
—Amy Alkon
This is Not the Ivy League
—Mary Clearman Blue
Desert Places: A Woman’s Odyssey
with the Wanderers of the Indian
Desert
—Robyn Davidson
Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse’s
Life
—Mary Jane Nealon
✸ Sleeping in a Truck
—Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
✸ Jombang Jet
—Michael Earl Craig
Seasons of Glory: Haiku Poems of
Remembrance
—Al Brown
✸ The Help
—Kathryn Stockett
✸ The Cave
—Jose Saramago
Deer Hunting With Jesus
—Joe Bageant
We Were the Mulvaneys
—Joyce Carol Oates
Get Shorty
—Elmore Leonard
Where Men Win Glory
—Jon Krakauer
✸ The Toughest Indian in the World
—Sherman Alexie
The Stuff of Life
—Karen Karbo
✸ Cochabamba! Water in Bolivia
—Oscar Olivera
✸ Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man
—John Perkins
✸ Vietcong at Wounded Knee: The
Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
—Woody Kipp
✸ Counting Coup: The True Story of
Basketball and Honor on the Little
Big Horn
—Larry Colton
Purple Cane Road
—James Lee Burke
How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living
from Kate the Great
—Karen Karbo
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