Fiction   19

• The Friendship Stones, Alan Black and Bernice Knight
• Burning Man, Alan Russell
• Guardians of the Night, Alan Russell
• The Granite Heart, Alan Black
• The Heaviest Rock, Alan Black
• Benediction, Kent Haruf
• Mercenary, Gaughran
• Kazan, James Curwood
• THE ALASKAN by James Oliver Curwood
• Grizzly King, James Oliver Curwood
• The River’s End, Jame Oliver Curwood (Audible)
• Burning Daylight, Jack London
• The Meadow, James Galvin
• The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner (Audible)
• Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
• Fear of Dying, Erica Jong
• Caravans, A Novel of Afghanistan, James Mitchener
• The Visitor, Sally Beauman
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Ernest Hemingway
• Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Non-Fiction    Nature, Outdoors  32

•  15 Months of Winter, John Bayer
• Winterdance, Gary Snyder
• Great Stories of the Great Plains Vol 1, Keith Norman
• Arctic Dreams, Gary Lopez
• Winds of Skilak: A Tale of True Grit, True Love and Survival, Ward
• All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the Wild West
• Grizzly Years: In Search of Wild America, Douglas Peacock
• Stories from Where We Live: The Great North American Prairie, Sara St. Antoine
• Rising from the Plains, John McPhee
• Winter Count, Barry Lopez
• Alaska Sampler, 2014
• Alaska Sampler, 2015
• The Best of Outside Magazine: The First 20 Years
• The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
• The Last New Land: Stories of Alaska Past and Present, John Haines
• Crossing the Heart of Africa, Julian Smith  (Audible)
• The Prophet of Dry Hill
• The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, Mark Obmasick  (Audible)
• North With the Spring, Edwin Way Teale
• John James Audubon, John Burrows
• A Year in the Fields, John Burrows
• Sightlines: A Conversation with the Natural World, Kathleen Jamie
• Owls: Our Most Charming Bird, Matt Sewell
• Winter World, Bernd Heinrich
• Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build, Goodfellow
• Birds of Light, John Hays
• Migration of Birds, Fish and Wildlife
• Bird-by-Bird Gardening, Roth
• Birdscaping Your Garden, Adams
• The Days are Gods, Liz Stephens (reread)

• A Soldiers Best Friend: Scout Dogs and Their Handlers in the Vietnam War, John Burnam
• No Dog Left Behind, Elliot Garber
• The Wives of Los Alamos, Tarashea Nesbitt
• The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790, Archibald Henderson
• The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk’s Colonists
• The Pioneers of Manitoba, George Bryce
• A Trip to Manitoba, Mary FitzGibbon
• The Red River Colony, Louis Aubrey Wood
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelts Darkest Journey, Candice Millard  (Audible)
• The Oregon Trail, Buck

Travel  3

• Off the Map: 25 Adventures to Inspire Your Next Adventure, Fagan
• Chicken Soup for the Travelers Soul
• When Wanderers Cease to Roam, Vivian Swift

Birds and  Field Guides  14

• Tracks, Scat, and Signs, Leslie Dendy    (print)
• Pelicans to Polar Bears: Watching Wildlife in Manitoba, Catherine Senecal   (print)
• Rocktionary, Shelley
• Bird Feathers, Scott   (print)
• Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them, Beals      (print)
• The Birder’s Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds, Erhlich      (print)
• Hawks, Eagles and Falcons of North Dakota
• Pelicans to Polar Bears
• Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die, Santella
• The Art of Bird Finding, Dunne
• 49 Ways to Improve Your Bird Watching, Bank

  The Silbey Guide to Birds       (print)

  Birders Daily Companion

  49 Fun Facts About the Weather (no no no)

Repeat Field Guides   1

• Hawks at a Distance, Liguori

Environment  2

• Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability, Ehrenfeld (I get a few chapters in each year)
• The Wilderness Within: Remembering David Brower

Journals 4

• The Sun
• Brevity
• Creative Nonfiction
• High Country News

Writing Skills  17

• The Writer and the Hero’s Journey, Rob Parnell
• Interpretive Writing, Leftridge
• How to Write a Story and Other Essays, Mark Twain
• Telling Your Own Stories, Donald Davis
• Writing as a Second Language, Donald Davis
• Writing the Western Landscape, Mary Austin
• Making Your Writing Flow: A Practical Guide to Transitional Words and Phrases, Dean
• Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians and Actors from America’s Foremost Creativity Coach, Maisel
• Words that Sing: Composing Lyrical Prose, Nilsen, Mary
• 1000 Writing Prompts
• The Mindful Writer, Moore
• Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors, Stodola
• You Can Say that Again: 750 Redundant Phrases, Johnson
• Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, Moore, Dinty
• A Writer’s Bucket List, Sitar, Dana
• Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors, Stodola

Health   3

• The Big Book of Woman’s Exercise, Women’s Health
• Healing Yoga, Loren Fishman
• Body Scrubs: 30 Organic Body Scrub Recipes For Gorgeous Skin

Spiritual Growth, Devotionals  11

• Mornings with Jesus
• Bread for the World
• Upper Room
• Alive Now
• The Elemental Life: The Earth Wind and Fire of the Passionate Spiritual Life, Wilt
• Water, Wind, Earth and Fire: The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements, Paintner
• Enough: Discovering Joy through Simplicity and Generosity, Adam Hamilton
• Devotions for Outdoor Adventures, Amy Carascia
• Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips
• The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer
• For the Love, Hatmaker

Professional Minister Reading  20

• Violence Unveiled, Gil Bailie
• Complete Bible Handbook, Bowker
• The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman
• In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership, Nouwen
• How We Got the Bible, Rose Publishing
• Lead Like Jesus, Ken Blanchard, Phil Hodges
• Ethnography as a Pastoral Process, Mary Clark Moschella
• Spirit Speech: Lament and Celebration in Preaching, Luke Powery
• Christian Outdoor Leadership: Theology Theory and Practice, Ashley Denton
• People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck (Audible)
• Metaphors in Mind: Transformation Through Symbolic Modeling, Lawley, Thompkins
• Finding Darwins God, Miller
• Can you Believe in Evolution and God; A Guide for the Perplexed, Peters
• 101 Questions for Humanity, Neill
• The Attributes of God, Pink
• 20 Great Bible Study Lessons: Book 1, Smith
• Hope: 4-Week Mini Bible Study, Bixler
• Choosing Words that Heal, Houge
• The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck (Audible)
• Love Your God with All your Mind, Morehead

Crafts  7

• Warmans’ Field Guide to Buttons, Jill Gorski
• Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs, Edie Eckman
• Just Edgings: 75 Crochet Border Patterns,Tara Cousins
• Easy Crochet Mittens, Tara Cousins
• Whitework Techniques  (print)
• Ten Minute Quilt Blocks, McNeill
• 11 Sewing Room Ideas

Cooking 3

• The Dehydrator Bible (print)
• Rockin Rhubarb Recipes
• Dumpcake Cookbook