My Reading Life

After receiving a ton of positive responses about my student reading list, I have started listing books from my reading journey (starting summer of 2016). Along my travels I try to pick up a book that corresponds with the place and those have been denoted.
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- The Boy Who Could Change the World - Aaron Swartz
- Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- Death of Santini - Pat Conroy
- Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans (Louisiana) - Gary Krist
- Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History (Louisiana) - William C. Davis
- The Story of Mobile (Alabama) - Caldwell Delaney
- How Children Fail - John Holt
- Dream State (Florida) - Diane Roberts
- The Little Professor of Piney Woods: The Story of Professor Laurence Jones (Mississippi) - Beth Day
- Tree of Justice (Texas) - Carroll Mart Sinclair
- Postmark Bayou Chene (Louisiana) - Gwen Roland
- Heavy Lifting - Jim Geraghty
- A Perfect Fit - Dr. Arnaud Prevot
- Land So Strange : The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Gulf Coast) - Andre Resendez
- Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
- Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is About Help Not Hype - Jay Baer
- The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade - Pietra Rivoli
- Lawful Interception - Corey Doctorow
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
- The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker (Texas) - Bill Neeley
- Cannonballs and Courage: The Story of Port Gibson (Mississippi) - Mary Ellis
- Sanctuary (Mississippi) - William Faulkner
- A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
- Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences (Pennsylvania) - Various Authors
- From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame - Mark Monmonier
- Mountain Spirits: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey and the Southern Appalachian Moonshine Tradition (North Carolina) - Joseph Earl Dabney
- Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
- Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
- Hamlet's BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age - William Powers
- Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
- TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking - Chris Anderson
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson
- Favorite Huey Long Stories (Louisiana) - Dr. Hugh M. Blain
- Flags of Louisiana (Louisiana) - Jeanne Frois
- Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country (Louisiana) - Kelby Ouchley
- A World Lost (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
- One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression (Mississippi) - Eudora Welty
- Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting (Mississippi) - Bruce Feldman
- Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking - Andy Sernovitz
- Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild - Lee Sandlin
- Linton Hall Military School Memories: One Cadet's Memoir - Linton Hall Cadet - This is a horrible book and I do not recommend it.
- Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited: Real-life Lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing - Emanuel Rosen
- Olmsted's Texas Journey: A Nineteenth-Century Survey of the Western Frontier (Texas) - Frederick Law Olmsted
- Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
- Inherit the Atchafalaya (Louisiana) - Greg Guirard & C. Ray Brassieur
- Every Man a King (Louisiana) - Huey Long
- A Place On Earth (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
- Requiem for a Nun (Mississippi) - William Faulkner
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures - Malcolm Gladwell
- Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut
- Cadets on Campus: History of Military Schools of the United States - Dr. John A. Coulter
- Bayou Sara - Used To Be (Louisiana) - Anne Butler & Helen Williams
- Concentration Camp Dachau 1933 - 1945 - Barbara Distel & Ruth Jakusch
- Everyday UX: 10 Successful UX Designers Share their Tales, Tools, and Tips for Success - Luke Chambers and Matthew Magain
- Honorable Treason: The Declaration of Independence and the Men Who Signed It - David Freeman Hawke
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Young Lions: Confederate Cadets at War - James Lee Conrad
- Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
- Answered Prayers - Truman Capote
- While Mortals Sleep - Kurt Vonnegut
- Soldier Boy (New York) - Roy Eaton
- Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
- Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
- A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
- Texas Military Institute: History of the Corps of Cadets - Dr. John A. Coulter
- So You Want To Be A Leader?: Advice and Counsel to Young Leaders - Colonel James Benson
- Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide - Charles Foster
- My Losing Season - Pat Conroy
- Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
- Approaching Oblivion - Harlan Ellison
- Louisiana: A Bicentennial History (Louisiana) - Joe Gray Taylor
- Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons - Kurt Vonnegut
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
- Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age (Revised) - John Palfery & Urs Gasser
- Unselfie: Why Emplathetic Kids Succeed in our All-About-Me World - Michele Borba
- A Pictorial History of the World War II Years - Edward Jablonski
- The Halo Effect: And the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers - Phil Rosenzweig
- The Resistance - Russell Miller
- William Faulkner of Oxford (Mississippi) - James Webb and A. Wigfall Green
- Bayou-Diversity 2: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country (Louisiana) - Kelby Ouchley
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States - Sarah Vowell
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Palm Sunday - Kurt Vonnegut
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Ohio) - J.D. Vance
- The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible - Simon Winchester
- Fifty Years of Christian Education in a Baptist School: A Historical Record of Hargrave Military Academy (Virginia) - Aubrey Camden
- From Ashes To Excellence, 1950-1970 (Virginia) - Joseph Cosby
- Years of Change; Years of Growth: A History of Hargrave Military Academy, 1970-2003 (Virginia) - Mary Maner Tallent
- OK: The Improbable Story Of America's Greatest Word - Allan Metcalf
- Executive Courage: Sometimes You Have to Walk Point - Colonel James Benson
- Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life - Tom Robbins
- Happy Birthday Wanda June - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Art of Selling to the Affluent: How to Attract, Service, and Retain Wealthy Customers and Clients for Life - Matt Oechsli
- How To Raise A Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men - Michael Reichert
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- The Alligator (Louisiana) - C.C. Lockwood
- American Alligator: Ancient Predator in the Modern World (Louisiana) - Kelby Ouchley
- Go Set a Watchman (Alabama) - Harper Lee
- From the Chickasaw Cession to Yoknapatawpha: Historical and Literary Essays on North Mississippi (Mississippi) - Hubery H. McAlexander
- Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
- Better than Life (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
- The Western Star - Craig Johnson
- Depth of Winter - Craig Johnson
- Courage, Honor, Conquer! The inspiring story of General Milton Grafly Baker and his legacy, the Valley Forge Military Academy (Pennsylvania) - Ronald E Tschiegg
- Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches - John Hodgman
- Yes Please - Amy Poehler
- The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World's Most Creative Places - Eric Weiner
- Food: A Love Story - Jim Gaffigan
- Calypso - David Sedaris
- Makers - Corey Doctorow
- Bored of the Rings - Harvard Lampoon
- Mythos - Stephen Fry
- Technically Wrong - Sara Wachter Boettcher
- Unf#ck Your Brain: Getting Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs and Triggers with Science - Dr. Faith Harper
- We Are What We Pretend To Be - Kurt Vonnegut
- Bagombo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut
- Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson
- Watch With Me: and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch - Wendell Berry
- Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents - Dr. Nina Brown
- Kurt Vonnegut Drawings - Nanette Vonnegut
- Unf#ck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating - Dr. Faith Harper
- Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away: Real Help for Desperate Hearts in Difficult Marriages - Dr. Gary Chapman
- Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data - Kevin Mitnick
- The Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States - Lewis Coe
- So, Anyway - John Cleese
- Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers - Maxwell King
- Stoneburner - William Gay
- The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee - Sarah Silverman
- The Path up the Mountain: What Military School Did for Me... This Is My Story - Skyler Chauff
- God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut
- What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior - Leonard Mlodinow
- Kurt Vonnegut's America - Jerome Klinkowitz
- What Would MacGyver Do? - Brendan Vaughan
- Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More than Ever - Gavin Edwards
- The Lost Country - William Gay
- True or Poo: The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts and Faslehoods - Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
- Look at the Birdie - Kurt Vonnegut
- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems - Randall Munroe
- The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing
- Fates Worse than Death - Kurt Vonnengut
- Lake Wobegon U.S.A. - Garrison Keillor
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (Performed by Tim Robbins)
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words - Randall Munroe
- Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing - Gretchen McCulloch
- Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
- Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything - Dr. Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen
- If This isn't Nice, What Is? - Kurt Vonnegut
- Like Shaking Hands with God - Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer
- The Secret Lives of Color - Kassia St. Clair
- A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
- Grand Central Winter: Stories From the Street - Lee Stringer
- The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic - Ginger Strand
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
- The Nickel Boys (Florida) - Colson Whitehead
- Good Omens; The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
- Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Mark Twain
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
- Wiped: The Curious History of Toilet Paper - Ronald Blumer
- Suckers Portfolio - Kurt Vonnegut
- Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States - Bill Bryson
- Turtles all the Way Down - John Green
- Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash - Edward Humes
- Carson Long Institute: A Seniors Journal 1972-1973 (Pennsylvania) - David McCoy
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania) - Benjamin Franklin
- A Confederacy of Dunces (Louisiana) - John Kennedy Toole
- Primordial Soup: The Least Worst Scripts (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
- The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits - Erik Sass and Steve Wiegand
- The Way I Heard It - Mike Rowe
- Backwards (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant
- Last Human (Red Dwarf) - Doug Naylor
- The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses - Dan Carlin
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything - Chris Hadfield
- Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail - Ben Montgomery
- The Eden Express: A Personal Account of Schizophrenia - Mark Vonnegut
- A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
- The Great LIFE Photographers - The Editors of LIFE
- The Street Photographer's Manual - David Gibson
- Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions - Stephen Colbert
- Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel - Ryan North
- Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography - Neil Patrick Harris
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir - Bill Bryson
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know - Malcolm Gladwell
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death - Caitlin Doughty
- Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street - Michael Davis
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race - Jon Stewart
- The Hidden History of the Main Line: From Philadelphia to Malvern (Pennsylvania) - Mark E. Dixon
- Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike - Grant Petersen
- In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
- Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet - Will Hunt
- You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station - Chris Hadfield
- Life: America the Beautiful: A Photographic Journey, Coast to Coast-and Beyond - Editors of Life
- Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History - Andrew Carroll
- The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - James Gleick
- Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet - Claire L. Evans
- The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain - Bill Bryson
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed
- Is This Anything? - Jerry Seinfeld
- Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
- Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights - Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
- Alone on the Wall - Alex Honnold & David Roberts
- How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson
- Follow the Trail: A young persons guide to the great outdoors - Jessica Loy
- Rock climbing - Scott Wirdinger & Leslie Rapparlie
- ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer - Scott McCartney
- Wilderness First Aid - William W. Forgey, MD
- User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play - Cliff Kuang
- Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) - David Sedaris
- When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - Adam Alter
- Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline
- The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey - Rinker Buck
- Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World - Reshma Saujani
- A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life - Brian Grazer & Charles Fishman
- Toproping: Rock Climbing for the Outdoor Beginner - Bob Gaines
- Rock Climbing Anchors, 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide - Topher Donahue
- Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual - Bob Gaines & Jason D. Martin
- The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design - Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt
- Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving - Mo Rocca
- Growing Up Amish: A Memoir - Ira Wagler
- The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow
- Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny (Louisiana) - Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger
- The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy - Rainn Wilson
- The Outdoor Knots Book - Clyde Soles
- The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad - Mike Birbiglia
- You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington - Alexis Coe
- The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History - Megan Millally & Nick Offerman
- Wanderlust, USA: An Uber-Curious Guide to Sassy American Pastimes - Flula Borg
- Rock Climbing, 2nd Edition: Mastering Basic Skills - Topher Donahue & Craig Luebben
- Don't Forget the Duct Tape: Tips & Tricks for Repairing & Maintaining Outdoor & Travel Gear - Kristin Hostetter
- Half Dome: The History of Yosemite's Iconic Mountain (California) - Joe Reidhead
- Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel & Adventure - The American Poetry & Literacy Project
- Wild America: A Personal Celebration of the National Parks - David Muench & Roly Smith
- Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 - Garrison Keillor
- First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country - Thomas R. Ricks
- John Muirs Wild America - Tom Melham
- Dad Is Fat - Jim Gaffigan
- The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits - Tommy Caldwell
- The Desert: A Dirtbag Climbing Book - Luke Mehall
- Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever (Pennsylvania) - Kareem Rosser
- The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna - the World's Deadliest Peak - Ed Viesturs & David Roberts
- Stories - Garrison Keillor
- Napalm & Silly Putty - George Carlin
- The Color Purple (Georgia) - Alice Walker
- Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland - Ken Ilgunas
- The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher
- The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self - Katty Kayi & Claire Shipman
- If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't) - Betty White
- Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir - Norm Macdonald
- Canyoneering: A Guide to Techniques for Wet and Dry Canyons - David Black
- Sewing Machine Magic: Make the Most of Your Machine - Steffani Lincecum
- Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage (Alaska) - Audrey Sutherland
- Wildlands of the West: The story of the Bureau of Land Management - Leslie Allen
- Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear - Eva Holland
- Treasures of Alaska: The Last Great American Wilderness (Alaska) - Jeff Rennicke
- Blind Descent : The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth - James M. Tabor
- Time Travel: A History - James Gleick
- Rappelling: Rope Descending And Ascending Skills For Climbing, Caving, Canyoneering, and Rigging - Bob Gaines
- The Big Bento Box of Useless Japanese Inventions - Kenji Kawakami
- No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Sarah Frier
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on returning to America after 20 years away - Bill Bryson
- Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
- Pennsylvania Caves & Other Rocky Roadside Wonders (Pennsylvania) - Kevin Patrick
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R. R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R. R. Martin
- A Child's Walk in the Wilderness : An 8-year-old boy and his father take on the Appalachian trail - Paul Molyneaux
- The Best of Me - David Sedaris
- This is Your Time - Ruby Bridges
- Building Wood Fires : Techniques and skills for stoking the flames both indoors and out - Annette McGivney
- Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors - Matt Parker
- Exploring America's Wild & Scenic Rivers - Douglas Chadwick
- Mud Rocks Blazes: Letting go on the Appalachian Trail - Heather "Anish" Anderson
- Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) - Tom Vanderbilt
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention - Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
- All Rise: Audio Perambulation - Nick Offerman
- Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things - Josh Clark & Chuck Bryant
- Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America - John Waters
- The Wright Brothers (Ohio) - David McCullough
- Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak - Andy Hall
- The Answer Is . . .: Reflections on My Life - Alex Trebek
- Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison - Piper Kerman
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson
- How to Be a Dictator: An Irreverent Guide - Mikal Hem
- Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance - Jennifer Armstrong
- Mountains of the Mind: How Desolate and Forbidding Heights Were Transformed into Experiences of Indomitable Spirit - Robert Macfarlane
- David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium - David Sedaris
- A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R. R. Martin
- Aperture Alike - Lucas Roman
- Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure - Tim Jeal
- Uncanny Valley: A Memoir - Anna Wiener
- The Complete Caving Manual - Andy Sparrow
- The Prophet - Kahil Gibran
- The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet - John Green
- The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History - Darrin Lunde
- How to Eat in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Foraging, Trapping, Fishing, and Finding Sustenance in the Wild - Bradford Angier
- Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World - David Owen
- Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari
- They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera
- More Napalm & Silly Putty - George Carlin
- What's Your Poo Telling You? - Josh Richman & Anish Sheth, M.D.
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter - Margareta Magnusson
- We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
- Echo - Kate Morgenroth
- A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R. R. Martin
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
- Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding - Daniel Lieberman
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game - Michael Lewis
- Carderock: Past and present : a climber's guide (Maryland) - Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
- The Book of Guys - Garrison Keillor
- Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States - Colin Quinn
- Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
- The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier - Ian Urbina
- Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone - Brene Brown
- Looking for Alaska - John Green
- Desert Solitaire (Utah) - Edward Abbey
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Duckworth
- Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions - Michael Moss
- A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R. R. Martin
- Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids - Hunter Clarke-Fields
- The Dirtbag's Guide to Life: Eternal Truth for Hiker Trash, Ski Bums and Vagabonds - Tim Mathis
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
- What Shat That? A Pocket Guide to Poop Identity - Matt Pagett
- A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next - Tom Standage
- Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity: What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves - Christian Rudder
- Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics -Ronald Brownstein
- Don't Know Much About the Presidents - Kenneth C. Davis
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 - Nicholas Reynolds
- Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway - Effie Price Gladding
- The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a Surreal Memoir (Pennsylvania) - Tom Garvey
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
- Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century - Jessica Bruder
- Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World - William H. McRaven
- The Last Leaves Falling - Sarah Benwell
- The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Volume I - Ernest Hemingway
- 101 Skills You Need to Survive in the Woods - Kevin Estela
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World - Cal Newport
- Nietzsche in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
- The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Volume II - Ernest Hemingway
- Unlost: A Journey of Self-discovery and the Healing Power of the Wild Outdoors - Gail Muller
- Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park - Conor Knighton
- Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever - John McWhorter
- Paper Towns - John Green
- You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto - Jaron Lanier
- Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning - Tom Vanderbilt
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel
- The Lincoln Highway: A Novel - Amor Towles
- When Is a Planet Not a Planet?: The Story of Pluto - Elaine Scott
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jaron Lanier
- The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Volume III - Ernest Hemingway
- Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum
- Full Circle - Michael Palin
- Trad Climbing Basics: Placing Trad Gear and Building Safe Anchors - VDiff Climbing
- Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation - Steven Johnson
- We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year - Charles Wheelan
- The Lords of Discipline (South Carolina) - Pat Conroy
- Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth - Albert Podell
- The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
- Adrift on an Ice-Pan - Wilfred Grenfell
- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - Kate Moore
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell
- The Longest Cave (Kentucky) - Roger W. Brucker & Richard A. Watson
- In Pieces - Sally Field
- Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide - Tony Horwitz
- The Thousand Mile Summer: In Desert and High Sierra (California) - Colin Fletcher
- Black Hole Survival Guide - Janna Levin
- Handmade: Creative Focus in thr Age of Distraction - Gary Rohowski
- The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family - Clint Howard & Ron Howard
- We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto - Alice Waters
- The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers - Eric Weiner
- Rules of Civility (New York) - Amor Towles
- The Story of Bodie (California) - Ella M. Cain
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
- Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined - Stephen Fry
- A Period of Juvenile Prosperity - Mike Brodie
- No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks - David Roberts & Ed Viesturs
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker - Kevin Mitnick & William L. Simon
- K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain - David Roberts & Ed Viesturs
- The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh - Candace Fleming
- The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and his Son - Pat Conroy (second reading)
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Colorado) - Robert Kolker
- Down: The Complete Descent Manual for Climbers, Alpinists and Mountaineers - Andy Kirkpatrick
- Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way - Jon Krakauer
- The Pebble Spotters Guide - Clive Mitchell
- Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue – The Climber's Guide To Accessing Alpine Terrain - Mike Thomas & Neil Chelton
- Nick - Michael Farris Smith
- Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy - Nathaniel Philbrick
- Down the River (Utah) - Edward Abbey
- Shirley, I Jest: A Storied Life - Cindy Williams
- Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Oberservations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outdoors - Nick Offerman
- Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman - Jon Krakauer
- Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillip
- Underland: A Deep Time Journey - Robert Macfarlane
- Taste: My Life Through Food - Stanley Tucci
- The Hilarious World of Depression - John Moe
- 30-Second Great Inventions: 50 Light-bulb Moments that Changed the World, from the Compass to the Smartphone - David Boyle
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America - John Steinbeck
- Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood - Gary Paulsen
- Why We Climb: The World's Most Inspiring Climbers - Chris Noble
- A Curious History of Sex - Kate Lister
- The Mister Rogers Effect: 7 Secrets to Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others from America's Beloved Neighbor - Anita Knight Kuhnley
- A Carnival of Snackery - David Sedaris
- Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (West Virginia) - Tony Horwitz
- Mythos - Stephen Fry
- The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
- Petit Jean: A Girl, A Mountain, A Community (Arkansas) - Marguerite Turner
- A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World - Tony Horwitz
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask - Anton Treuer
- The Yosemite - John Muir & Galen Rowell
- Outbreak In The Woods: Thru-Hiking During a Worldwide Pandemic - Ryan Michael Beck
- There and Back: Photographs from the Edge - Jimmy Chin
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
- A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life - Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein
- The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time - Robert Redford
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl
- Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Mary Roach
- Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People - Amy Sedaris
- Live Your Best Life: 219 Science-based Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine - Dr. Stuart Farrimond
- Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History - Andy Greene
- Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific - Nicholas Thomas
- Caving Basics: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginning Cavers - Dean Wiseman & Curt Harler
- All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business - Mel Brooks
- The Writer's Crusade : Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five - Tom Roston
- Go Outside and Come Back Better: Benefits from Nature that Everyone Should Know - Ron Lizzi
- One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories - B.J. Novak
- Under the Banner of Heaven: The Story of a Violent Faith (Utah) - Jon Krakauer
- And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life - Charles J. Shields
- Mammoth Cave National Park Reflections (Kentucky) - Raymond Klass
- True Grit (Arkansas) - Charles Portis
- The Son (Texas) - Philipp Meyer
- Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism - Amanda Montell
- The Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallary - David Breashears & Audrey Salkeld
- Music Is History - Questlove
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Best. State. Ever: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland (Florida) - Dave Barry
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation - Imani Perry
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- Jaber Crow (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
- Climbing: From Single Pitch to Multipitch - Ron Funderburke
- Deliverance (Georgia) - James Dickey
- Hayduke Lives! - Edward Abbey
- The Journey Home - Edward Abbey
- Snowshoeing through Sewers: Adventures in New York City, New Jersey and Philadelphia (New Jersey) - Michael Aaron Rockland
- Basic Wilderness Life Support: A Text for Wilderness First Responder Courses - Dr. Richard Ingebretsen
- Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World - Craig Foster & Ross Frylinck
- Alpine Caving Techniques: A Complete Guide to Safe and Efficient Caving - Georges Marbach & Bernard Tourte
- The Serpents of Paradise - Edward Abbey
- On Rope: North American Vertical Rope Techniques for Caving, Search and Rescue, Mountaineering - Allen Padgett & Bruce Smith
- Yearbook - Seth Rogen
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - David Graeber & David Wegngrow
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- Beyond the Wall - Edward Abbey
- The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
- Inferno - Dan Brown
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
- Origin - Dan Brown
- Will - Will Smith
- Paycheck - Philip K. Dick
- Forever Young: A Memoir - Hayley Mills
- Rationality : What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters - Steven Pinker & Arthur Morey
- F*cking History: 111 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School - The Captain
- The Boston Massacre: A Family History - Serena R. Zabin
- The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War - Malcolm Gladwell
- House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir - Michelle Zauner
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- Hello, Molly! A Memoir - Molly Shannon & Sean Wilsey
- Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains Edward Abbey Eliot Porter - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
- Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
- Legends and Lies: The Real West - David Fisher & Bill O'Reilly
- The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
- Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
- Abbey's Road - Edward Abbey
- Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- Dragon Teeth - Michael Crichton
- Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History - Brian Kilmeade
- Fugitives of the Heart - William Gay
- The Highwayman - Craig Johnson
- The Gypsy in Me - Ted Simon
- The Nineties - Chuck Klosterman
- The Brave Cowboy - Edward Abbey
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America - James & Deborah Fallows
- The Andromeda Evolution - Daniel H. Wilson
- America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great - Dr. Ben Carson
- Amped - Daniel H. Wilson
- The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There - Jenna Fischer & Angela Kinsey
- Prelude to Foundation - Issac Asimov
- Next - Michael Crichton
- The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
- The Black Hills - Roderick Peattie
- Robopocalypse - Daniel H. Wilson
- The Boo - Pat Conroy
- All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- Prey - Michael Crichton
- Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics - Dolly Parton & Robert K. Oermann
- Legends and Lies: The Patriots - David Fisher
- That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life - Garrison Keillor
- Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life - Brianna Madia
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon - David Grann
- Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
- Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
- Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill - Candice Millard
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
- State of Fear - Michael Crichton
- Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin
- Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions - Russell Brand
- Timeline - Michael Crichton
- The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel - Larry McMurtry
- It Happened on the Oregon Trail (West) - Tricia Martineau Wagner
- George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution - Brian Kilmeade
- Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (West) - Wallace Stegner
- No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon (West) - by Erik Weihenmayer & Buddy Levy
- Happy-Go-Lucky - David Sedaris
- Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV - Warren Littlefield & T. R. Pearson
- Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon - Garrison Keillor
- Climbing Self Rescue: Improvising Solutions for Serious Situations - Molly Loomis & Andy Tyson
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Daniel James Brown
- A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel - Garrison Keillor
- The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America - Bradford Pearson
- 99: Stories of the Game - Kirstie McLellan Day & Wayne Gretzky
- The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (West) - John Wesley Powell
- How to Ice Climb! - Sean Isaac & Tim Banfield
- Louisiana Hwy. 1 (Louisiana) - Anne Butler
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari
- Pythagorean Theorem for Babies - Chris Ferrie & Mike Ziniti
- George Lucas: A Life - Brian Jay Jones
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
- American Climber - Luke Mehall
- Being Elvis: A Lonely Life - Ray Connolly
- Night - Elie Wiesel
- The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket - Benjamin Lorr
- American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics (Pennsylvania) - Kevin Hazzard
- Mammoth Cave and the Kentucky Cave Region - Bob & Judi Thompson
- What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe
- Enchanted New York: A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan's Magical Past (New York) - Kevin Dann
- Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide - John Cleese
- Almost Interesting: The Memoir - David Spade
- The City on the Edge of Forever - Harlan Ellison
- Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am - Julia Cooke
- River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile - Candice Millard
- Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Desolation Peak: Collected Writings - Jack Kerouac
- Stunning Iceland: The Hedonist's Guide - Bertrand Jouanne & Gunnar Freyr
- Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America - Dan Flores
- Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek - Dan Levy & Eugene Levy
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson (second reading)
- Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure - Rinker Buck
- The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World - Riley Black
- The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life - Mark Synnott
- Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind - Kermit Pattison
- How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question - Michael Schur
- Strange Tales from National Parks: Werewolves, Bigfoots, Cannibals, UFO's and More - Martin Ettington
- Origin Story: A Big History of Everything - David Christian
- Stories from the Attic - William Gay
- The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors - David George Haskell
- Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon - Malcolm Gladwell & Bruce Headlam
- Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II - Daniel James Brown
- Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History - Dan Flores
- On Trails: An Exploration - Robert Moor
- Fire on the Mountain - Edward Abbey
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Utah) - Aron Ralston
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom - Adam Chandler
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir - Colin Jost