Wilderness books
Books where nature is more than a backdrop: forests, mountains, tundra and open plains that test the people in them. Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air recounts a disaster on Everest, Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone follows a family trying to survive in Alaska, and Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove crosses the open West on a cattle drive. Fiction and nonfiction share the theme.
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- 1Lonesome Dove
9.19.1 / 10 - 2A Psalm for the Wild-Built
8.58.5 / 10 - 3The Crossing
8.48.4 / 10 - 4Prisoners of the Sun
8.48.4 / 10 - 5The Great Alone
8.38.3 / 10 - 6The Hunger Games
8.38.3 / 10 - 7Into Thin Air
8.28.2 / 10 - 8The Invention of Nature
8.28.2 / 10 - 9A Sand County Almanac
8.28.2 / 10 - 10Where the Crawdads Sing
8.28.2 / 10 - 11Watership Down
8.18.1 / 10 - 12Dragonsong
8.18.1 / 10 - 13Tom's Crossing
8.18.1 / 10 - 14Blood Meridian
8.18.1 / 10 - 15The Terror
8.18.1 / 10 - 16Into the Wild
8.18.1 / 10 - 17Holes
8.18.1 / 10 - 18My Side of the Mountain
8.18.1 / 10 - 19Wolf-Speaker
8.18.1 / 10 - 20Beyond the Deepwoods
8.08.0 / 10 - 21The Assassin and the Desert
8.08.0 / 10 - 22Snake-Eater
8.08.0 / 10 - 23Exile
8.08.0 / 10 - 24Wild Dark Shore
8.08.0 / 10 - 25Drums of Autumn
8.08.0 / 10 - 26The Bear and the Nightingale
8.08.0 / 10 - 27Wolf Brother
8.08.0 / 10 - 28God's Junk Drawer
8.08.0 / 10 - 29Cry Wolf
7.87.8 / 10 - 30Planet of Exile
7.67.6 / 10