Are you a Kindle lover? The list below (updated periodically throughout the year) contains mostly titles available on Kindle or Audible (which I listen to through my Kindle). The classics you see below (e.g., Cather, Tolstoy, Hardy, Emerson, Stevenson) are available for free!
Novels
- Flight Behavior: A Novel, Barbara Kingsolver
- Plainsong, Kent Haruf – print
- Light of August, William Faulkner
- Pilgrims Bay, J. K. Stevens
- Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
- Call of the Wild, Jack London
- War and Peace (summary study guide)
- Collider, Chris Hejmanowski
- O Pioneer, Willa Cather
- The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout
- People of the Wolf, Michael Gear
- Morning River, Michael Gear Part 1
- Coyote Summer, Michael Gear Part 2
- Song of the Lark, Willa Cather
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Luck of Roaring Camp, Bret Harte
- Red Pony, John Steinbeck
- Love and Lament, Thompson
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
- The Pearl, John Steinbeck
Fiction Collections
- Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Annie Proulx
- Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories #2, Proulx
- Fine Just the Way it Is: Wyoming Stories #3,Proulx
- Best American Short Stories 2012
- O. Henry Short Stories
Nonfiction: Travel, Adventure, Outdoors
- A Thousand Sisters: The Worst Place in the World to Be a Woman, Lisa Shannon (Audible)
- The Road, Jack London
- Boomer: Railroad Memoirs, Linda Neimann -Print
- Tales of the North, Jack London
- Here, There, and Everywhere: Stories from the Road, William Heat Least-Moon (Audible)
- Walden on Wheels, Ken Ilgunas
- Railroad Semantics, #1, #2, Dactyl – Print
- Bird Cloud, Proulx
- Blue Highways, Least Heat-Moon
- The Longest Road, Caputo
- The Old Way: A Journey on Foot, MacFarlane (Audible and Kindle versions)
- Into the Wild, Krakauer
- Father Water, Mother Woods, Paulsen (Audible)
- River Horse, Least Heat-Moon (Audible)
- The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic by Bledsoe, Lucy Jane (Audible)
- Heart of England, Edward Thomas
- Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Erlich
- Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
- Travels in Alaska, John Muir
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
- The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd
- My First Summer in the Sierras, John Muir
- The Art of Pilgrimage, Phil Cousineau (Audible)
Nonfiction: Memoirs, Biography
- Before the World Intruded, Rosenthal
- Everyday Saints and Other Stories, Tikhon
- Old Jules, Sandoz – Print
- Haldol and Hyacinths, Moettit
- Last Stand: Ted Turner’s Quest to Save a Troubled Planet, Wilkinson
- My Share of the Task, McChrystal (Audible)
- Things I Like About America, Poe Ballentine
- A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson (Audible)
- A Man in Search of Meaning: Jack London, Stewart Gabel
Nonfiction: Spiritual Journey
- Listening Against the Stone, Miller
- John Muir: Spiritual Writings, Tim Flinders
Nonfiction: Western Life and History (print)
- Beyond the 100th Meridian, Wallace Stegner
- Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, Wallace Stegner
- The Black Hills and the Indians, Martin Luschei
- Profiles, Fort Phil Kearney
- Wyoming Alamnac, Roberts
- Readings in Wyoming History, Roberts
- The State of Equality in the Equality State, Jensen
- Pictorial History of Wyoming, State Historical Society
- Pulling Leather, Mullin
- Cowboy Values: Recapturing What American Once Stood For, Owen
- Living in the Runaway West: Partisan View, Writers on the Range.
- Oh, My America, Sarah Wheeler
Non Fiction: Living
- Minimalism: Essential Essays
- Cravings: Why We Can’t Seem to Get Enough, Manekwala
- The Five Things We Cannot Change….and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them, Richo
Nonfiction: Environment
- Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability, Ehrenfeld
- Countdown, Alan Weisman
Nonfiction: Collections
- Best American Essays 2012
- Best American Travel Writing 2012
- Best American Nature and Science Writing
- The Best Creative Nonfiction
- Broken Pieces (Essays Inspired By Life, Rachel Thompson, Jessica Swift, Natasha Brown, Bennet PomerantzPoetry
- Haiku, Issa
- Gerard Manley Collection
- Between Two Souls, Kownacki and Ryokan
- Poems and Last Poems, Edward Thomas
- Songs of the Open Road (various)
- A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
- The Best Poems of Robert Service
- Poems by Walt Whitman
- Poems of the Past and Present, Thomas Hardy
Essays, Nature
- Walking, Henry David Thoreau
Camping/Travel
- Best Rocky Mountain Trips, Lonely Planet
- Five of US Best Trips, Lonely Planet
- Camping with the Corps of Engineers, Don Wright
- Popping Up Across America, Corby
- Pizza on the Grill, Karmel
- Solar Power Your Camper or RV, Baker
- Inflatable Kayaking, Roth
Photography, Other Hobbies
- 8 Types of Natural Light, McKinnell
- 70 Photography Lessons, Dahlin
- Photoshop CS6 Beta: Digital Classroom Preview, Smith
- In a Sacred Manner We Live, Edward Curtis
Professional Reading
- Can You Drink the Cup, Henri Nouwen
- Oneness: Great Principles Shared by All Religions, Jeffries
- Embracing an Adult Faith, Marcus Borg
- Black Elk Speaks, John G. Neihardt
- Preaching Paul, Braxton
- Sacred Scripture, Sacred, War: The Bible and the American Revolution, Byrd
- Raging with Compassion: Pastoral Responses to the Problem of Evil, Swinton
- Proverbs: Wisdom and Works, Ortlund
- The Gift of Anger, Cannon
- Christian Origins, Horsley
- Loosely Christian, Epperly
- The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic, Spong
- Evolution of the Word, Borg
- Does God Exist: An Answer for Today, Kung
- Embracing the Human Jesus, Galston
- Allegory in the Bible, Adler
Writing Skills –
- Think Well & Prosper: A Critical Thinking Guide, Steve Berham
- Metaphors We Live By
- Writing Through the Year (Winter)
- The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression
- The Fiction Thesaurus
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
- You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Gutkind, Lee
- Creative You, Goldstein
- Flash Nonfiction, Rose Medal Press
- The First Five Pages, Lukeman
- Vex, Hex, Smash, and Smooch, Hale
- How to Write Short, Clark
- Writing Tools, Clark (Audible and Kindle editions)
- The Art of Styling Sentences, Barrow (print)
Ooooh-La-La! I LOVE a good book list! I’m Printing this one! Hey, do you mind if I use it in the library? crediting Jane Willis as the source, of course. “As seen on Jane’s Journals blog” Oh what fun!
of course! how fun. this is an ongoing list…..will let you know when it has lots of new entries! thanks
My favorite writer of those kinds of novels is Michael Gear