A LINK TO THE LIBRARY OF FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF BELLINGHAM
I am parking a temporary link here for the library of First Congregational Church of Bellingham as an experiment to assist with creating the library page on the church's website. If you've discovered it, feel free to browse the church library.Some of the Books I Have Read
I used to have a web page devoted to the books I have read. I would write short reviews of the books and publish pictures of the covers. While I love reading, I've never been good at the discipline of writing book reports. As a result the page was perpetually behind my reading.In place of that blog, I offer this list. It is alphabetized by author's last name. I will add books from time to time. It is not complete, but here are some of the books I have read in recent years.
Abbey, Edward, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978)
Alexander, Elizabeth, American Sublime, (St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press), 2005.
Alexander, Elizabeth, The Light of the World: A Memoir (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2015)
Alexie, Sherman, Blasphemy (New York: Grove Press) 2012
Alexie, Sherman, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, (New York: Little, Brown & Company) 2007.
Alexie, Serman, The Toughest Indian in the World, (New York: Atlantic Monthly) 2000
Alexie, Sherman, War Dances (New York: Grove), 2009.
Allen, D., Totem Poles of the Northwest (Surrey, B.C., Canada: Hancock House Publishers, 1977
Anderson, Ben D., IQ of 63 - So What! Going Beyond Everybody Else’s Expectations (St. Cloud, MN: Sentinal, 2008).
Angelou, Maya, The Complete Collected Poems, (New York: Random House), 1994.
Antal, Jim, Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield), 2018
Auden, W. H., For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) 2013 edition
Auslander, Shalom, Hope: A Tragedy (New York: Beaverhead Books, 2012).
Austin, Jane, Pride and Prejudice
Backman, Fredrik, A Man Called Ove, (New York: Atria Books),
Bailey, Kevin M., The Western Flyer: Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2015.
Bakker, Gerbrand, The Twin, Translated front he Dutch by David Colmer (New York: Archipelago Books, 2010).
Balf, Todd, The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la (New York: Three Rivers Press) 2000.
Barrows, Anita and Macy, Joanna, translators and editors: Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005)
Bartlett, Jennifer, Black, Sheila & Northen, Michael, ads., Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press) 2011.
Baxter, Charles, Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla, Boyle, T. C., Elashi, Noor, Lacy, Catherine, Wheeler, William, McSweeney’s 43 (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2013)
Beahm, George, ed., I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words (Chicago: Agate Books, 2011)
Beal, Timothy, The Rise and Fall of the Bible:The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book, (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 2011.
Benjamin, H. Jon, Failure Is An Option: An Attempted Memoir (New York: Penguin Random House), 2018.
Berwald, Juli, Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone (New York: Riverhead Books), 2017
Blount Jr., Roy, Alphabet Juice (New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2008).
Blount Jr., Roy, Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (New York: Random House, 2005)
Blount, Brian K., Invasion of the Dead: Preaching Resurrection , (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press), 2014.
Bohnaker, Joseph, J., Fury of the Norse (Tempe, AZ: Third Millennium Publishing), 2018
Bolz-Weber, Nadia Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful, Faith of a Sinner & Saint (New York: Jericho Books, 2013)
Borg, Maarcus J., Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power - And How they Can be Restored (New York: Harper Collins, 2011)
Borg, Marcus J. and Crossan, John Dominic, The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Conservative Icon (New York: Harper One) 2009.
Bourgault, Cynthia, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind - a New Perspective on Christ and His Message (Boston: Shambhala, 2008)
Brabazon, James, My Friend the Mercenary: A Memoir, (New York: Grove Press), 2010.
Bradbury, Ray, Dandelion Wine (New York: Bantam, 1976)
Braestrup, Kate, Here if You Need Me: A True Story (New York: Little, Brown & Company) 2007
Branson, John, ed., More Readings from One Man’s Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke 1974-1980
Brown, Brene, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are (Center City, MN: Hazelden), 2010.
Brueggemann, Walter, A Gospel of Hope (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press), 2018.
Brueggemann, Walter, Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Water Brueggemann, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press), 2003.
Brueggemann, Walter, Chosen?: Reading the Bible amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2015)
Brueggemann, Walter, Prayers for a Privileged People (Nashville: Abingdon), 2008
Brueggemann, Walter, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, (Louisville, KY: Westminster, John Knox Press), 2014.
Brueggemann, Walter, Tenacious Solidarity: Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate and the Economy (Minneapolis: Fortress Press), 2018
Brueggemann, Walter, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture (Louisville, Kentucky: John Knox Press) 2013
Burnett, Constance Buel, Let the Bet Boat Win: The Story of America’s greatest yacht designer Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957)
Burns, Catherine, ed, with preface by Adam Goppnik and foreword by George Dawes Green, The Moth: 50 True Stories (New York: Hyperion Books, 2013)
Byrne, David, How Music Works (San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2012).
Calabrese, Jr., Frank with Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman, and Paul Pompian, Operation Family Secrets (New York: Random House, 2011)
Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (New York: MJF Books) 1949.
Camus, Albert, The Fall (New York: Random House, 1991 Edition.)
Camus, Albert, The Plague (New York: Vintage Books, 1991 edition.)
Camus, Albert, The Stranger (New York: Random House, 1989 Edition.)
Caputo, John and respondents, It Spooks, (Rapid City, SD: Shelter 50 Publishing, 2015)
Carlisle, Liz, Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America (New York: Gotham Books) 2015
Carnes, Patrick, Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction, (Center City, MN: Hazelden Publishing), 3rd Edition, 2001.
Chacour, Elias with Hazard, David, Blood Brothers, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books), 2013
Church, Mike and Terri, Traveler's Guide to Alaskan Camping: Alaska and Yukon Camping with RV or Tent, (Livingston, TX: Rolling Homes Press), 2011.
Claiborne, Shane, Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why it's Killing Us (New York: Harper One) 2016.
Clancy, Tara, The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir (New York: Crown Publishing Group), 2016
Clark, Doug Bock, The Last Whaleres: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life (New York: Little, Brown and Company), 2019
Collins, Billy, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (New York: Random House, 2013)
Collins, Billy, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (New York: Random House, 2000)
Cooper, T, Real Man Adventures (San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2012)
Corin, Lucy, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (San Francisco: McSweeneys, 2013
Cornelius, Gary, The Art of the Con (Lanham, Maryland: American Correctional Association) 2001.
Crosley, Sloane, Look Alive Out There: Essays, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux),
Crossen, John Dominic, The Power of Parables: How Fiction by Jesus became Fiction about Jesus (New York: Harper One, 2012)
Crowder, Stephanie Buckhanon, When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press), 2016
Dalai Lama and Tutu, Desmond with Abrams, Douglas, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (New York: Avery) 2016.
Daniel, Lillian, Tired of Apologizing for a Church I Don't Belong To: Spiritual without Stereotypes, Religion without Ranting (New York: Faithwords), 2016
Deloria Jr., Vine, God is Red: A Native View of Religion, (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1973; 30th Anniversary Edition, 2003).
Desmond, Matthew, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (New York: Broadway Books), 2016
Doig, Ivan, The Bartender’s Tale (New York:Riverhead Books, 2012)
Dolin, Eric Jay, Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates (New York: Liveright Publishing), 2018
Downes, P. G., edited by R.H. Cockburn: Distant Summers: P.G. Downes’ Journals of Travels in Northern Canada. Volume 1: 1936-1938; Volume II: 1939 - 1947 (Ottawa: McGahern Stewart Publishing, 2012)
Downes, P. G., Sleeping Island (N. Ferrisburg, VT: Heron Dance Press, 2004)
Doyle, Brian, Mink River: A Novel, (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.), 2010
Dungy, Tony with Whitaker, Nathan, Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life, (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2007)
Eggers, Dave, A Hologram for the King (San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2012)
Ellison, Ralph, Flying Home and Other Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 1997 edition.)
Ellison, Ralph, The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (New York: The Modern Library, 2003.)
Ende, Michael, Momo, (London: Penguin), 1985.
Ende, Michael, The Neverending Story, translated by Ralph Mannheim, (London: Penguin), 1997.
Faith Trust Institute: Healthy Boundaries 101 - Fundamentals: A Course for Clergy and Spiritual Teachers (Seattle, WA: Faith Trust Institute) 2012
Foer, Jonathan Safran, Here I am: A Novel (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 2016.
Ford, Jamie, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, (New York: Ballantine Books, 2009)
Fujimoto, Mari, Ikigai & Other Japanese Words to Live By (London: Modern Books), 2019
Galoodt, Scott H., I'll take the 18: The Story of Beech 18 Freight Flying (Self Published), 2018
Garrett-Davis, Josh, Ghost Dances: Proving Up on the Great Plains (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012)
Gilliford, Andrew, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions (Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Press, 2000)
Gladwell, Malcolm, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, (New York: Little Brown & Co.), 2013
Goldstein, Jonathan, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! (New York: Riverhead Books), 2009.
Goodall, Jane, and Abrams, Douglas, with Hudson, Gail, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, (New York, Caledon), 2021
Grayson, Stan, A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World (Thomaston, ME: Tilbury House Publishers) 2017.
Griffin, Judge Arthur, compiled; Trenholme J. Griffin, edited; Margaret Chodos-Irvine, illustrated, Ah Mo: Indian Legends from the Northwest (Surrey, B.C., Canada:Hancock House, 1990)
Grinnell, George James, Death on the Barrens: A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic (Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books) 2016 edition.
Hamid, Mohsin, East West: A Novel (New York: Riverhead Books), 2017
Hamilton, Steve, The Lock Artist (New York: Minotaur Books, 2009).
Hammer, Joshua, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: and their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Hammond, Darrell, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked: Tales of Stand-up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-altering Mayhem (New York: HarperCollins, 2011)
Hanh, Tich Nhat, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart (Boston: Shambhala), 2011
Hart, Drew G. I., Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church views Racism, (Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press), 2016.
Heacox, Kim, The Only Kayak: A Journey into the Heart of Alaska, (Guilford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press), 2006.
Hecht, Jennifer Michael, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013)
Hemingway, Ernest, The Nick Adams Stories (New York: Scribner, 1972.)
Hendrickson, Paul, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost 1934 - 1961 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011)
Hinman, Wendy, Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire - A True Story (Seattle: Salsa Press) 2017.
Hinman, Wendy, Tightwads on the Loose: A Seven Year Pacific Odyssey (Seattle, WA: Salsa Press) 2012.
Hirschmann, Fred, photographs; Kim Heacox, text, Bush Pilots of Alaska, (Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center Publishing), 1989.
Holden, Anthony and Ben, eds, Poems that Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words that Move Them (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014)
Horgan, John, The End of War (San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2012)
Horgan, John, The End of War (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2011)
Horsted, Paul with Berry, Bob, Yellowstone Yesterday and Today (Custer, South Dakota: Golden Valley Press, 2012)
Hoshino, Michio, Hoshino's Alaska, (San Francisco: Chronicle Books), 2007.
Hoshino, Michio, Moose, (Hong Kong: Chronicle), 1988.
Hoshino, Michio, Nanook's Gift, (San Francisco: Cadence Books, 1997)
Hoshino, Michio, The Grizzly Bear Family Book, translated by Karen Colligan-Taylor, (New York: North-South Books), 1992.
Huffman, Vernon, One Thousand Miles Past the Last Gas Station: The Story of Bike4Peace (Amazon) 2016.
Hulse, Caroline, The Adults: A Novel (New York: Random House), 2018
Irby, Samantha, New Year, Same Trash: Resoultions I Absolutely Did Not Keep (New York: Vintage Books), 2017
Irby, Samatha, Meaty, (New York: Vintage Books), 2018.
Isaacson, Walter, Steve Jobs, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011)
Iyer, Pico, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (New York: Ted Books, 2014)
Jans, Nick, The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska’s Inupiat Eskimos (Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1993)
Jemisin, N. K., The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1) (London: Orbit Books), 2015
Jemisin, N. K., The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Book 2) (London: Orbit Books), 2016
Jemisin, N. K., The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3) (London: Orbit Books), 2017
Jerome, Christine, An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gampt (Halcottsville, New York: Breakaway Books, 2013
July, Miranda, with photographs by Brigitte Sire, It Chooses You (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2011)
Kantner, Seth, Ordinary Wolves (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2004)
Kantner, Seth, Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2008).
Kasischke, Laura, Space, in Chains (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2011)
Kempton, Beth, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life (New York: Harper Design),
Kennedy, Dan, American Spirit: A Novel (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).
Kennedy, Dan, Rock On: An Office Power Ballad (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2008)
Kersten, Holger, Jesus Lived in India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion (London: Penguin), 2001.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions) 2013.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press), 2015.
Kling, Kevin, The Dog Says How (Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2007).
Kraft, Keith C., Pain Seeking Understanding: In Search of Hope and Healing (Self Published), 2018
Laing, Kojo, Search Sweet Country (San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2011)
Lanae, Jaclyn The Me I Was: The True Story of How Death by Motorcycle Gave Me Life (Rapid City, South Dakota: Shelter 50 Publishing, 2015)
Lander, Christian, Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions (New York: Random House, 2008)
Landrieu, Mitch, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, (New York: Viking), 2018.
Lane, J. Kelly, ed., A Paddler’s Guide to the Streams and Lakes of the Black Hills (Rapid City, SD: Black Hills Paddlers, 2013)
Lawson, Jenny, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (New York: Flatiron Books),
Lax, Robert, 33 Poems, (Stuttgart: Staib & Mayer), 1988 edition.
Leaf, Sue, Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) 2015.
Lederach, John Paul, The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (New York: Oxford, 2005).
Legault, Paul, The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems, (New York: Tom Doherty Associates), 2012.
Levin, Adam, Hot Pink, (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2011).
Levine, Amy-Jill, Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Week (Nashville: Abingdon Press), 2018
Lipman, Doug, Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play (Atlanta: August House, 1999)
Lopez, Barry, Horizon (New York: Alfred A. Knoff), 2019
Lukas, J. Anthony, Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets off a Struggle for the Soul of America (New York: Simon and Schuster), 1997.
Lund, Sarah Griffith, Blessed are the Crazy: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family & Church, (St. Louis: Chalice Press), 2014.
MacGregor, Roy, Canoe Country: The Making of Canada, (Toronto: Random House, Canada), 2015.
MacKay, Douglas, The Honourable Company: A History of The Hudson’s Bay Company (London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1937)
Maclean, Norman, Young Men and Fire (Chicago, University of Chicago Press), 1992
Malek, Alia, ed., Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Injustice, (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2011)
Marshall III, Joseph M., Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance (New York: Sterling, 2006)
Marshall III, Joseph M., The Power of Four: Leadership Lessons of Crazy Horse.
Marshall, Joseph M., III, The Long Knives are Crying (Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2008)
Marshall, Robert, Alaska Wilderness: Exploring the Central Brooks Range (Berkeley: University of California Press, Third Edition, 2005)
Marshall, Robert, Arctic Village: A 1930’s Portrait of Wiseman, Alaska (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1991 reprint)
Maufe, Jane, the Frozen Frontier: Polar Bound through the Northwest Passage (London: Adlard Coles Nautical), 2017
McGregor, Michael N., Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax, (New York: Fordham University Press), 2015.
McGoffin, Mary Janicki, Under the Red Roof: 100 Years at Northern State Hospital, 2020 Revised Edition (Sedro-Wooley, WA: M.J. McGoffin) 2011, 2014, 2020.
McLain, Paul, The Paris Wife: A Novel (New York: Ballantine, 2011).
McLaren, Brian D., Why did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World (New York: Jericho Books, 2012)
McPhee, John, Coming into the Country (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976).
McPhee, John, The John McPhee Reader (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974)
McPhee, John, The Second John McPhee Reader (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996).
McPhee, John, The Survival of the Bark Canoe, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975).
McSweeney’s Quarterly, Issue Number 39 (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2011)
Meacham, Jon, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, (New York: Ramdom House), 2018
Merton, Thomas, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, (New York: Random House), 1965
Meyers, E.C. (Ted), Totem Tales: Legends from the Rainforest (Surrey, B.C., Canada: Hancock House, 2005)
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, Revised Edition, 2012)
Moran, Mark, and Sceurman, Mark, Weird Missouri: Your Travel Guide to Missouri’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (New York: Sterling, 2008)
Mowat, Farley, Never Cry Wolf (New York: Little Brown, 1963)
Mowat, Farley, No Man’s River (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004)
Mowat, Farley, People of the Deer (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005)
Mowat, Farley, The Desperate People (New York: Little Brown, 1959)
Muiznieks, Sylvia and Veltheim, John, Body Talk Access Training Manual, (Sarasota, FL: PaRama LLC), 2007.
Munro, Alice, Dear Life: Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012)
Murie, Margaret E., Two in the Far North (Portland: Alaska Northwest Books, 1997).
Myers, Michael, and Fine, Carla, Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing after Loss, (New York: Gotham Books), 2006.
Nerborn, Kent, Neither Wolf nor Dog, (Novato, California: New World Library), 1994, 2nd Edition, 2002.
Neuzil, Mark and Sims, Norman, Canoes: A natural History in North America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) 2016.
Newman, Peter C., Empire of the Bay: The Company of Adventurers that Seized a Continent (Toronto: Madison Press Books, 1989; New York: Penguin, 1998)
Niebuhr, Gustav, Beyond Tolerance: How People Across America Are Building Bridges Between Faiths (New York: Penguin Group), 2008.
Niebuhr, Gustav, Lincoln’s bishop: A President, a Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors (New York: Harper One)
O'Neill, Dan, A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage along the Yukon River (New York: Persius Books Group), 2006.
Ogawa, Yoko: The Memory Police, (New York: Pantheon Books), 2019
Oliver, Mary, Blue Horses: Poems, (New York: Penguin Press.), 2014
Oliver, Mary, Evidence (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009)
Olli, Andrew and Healy, Ann Marie, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012)
Olson, Sigurd F., The Lonely Land (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997)
Orner, Peter, ed., Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2008)
Palin, Michael, Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time (Vancouver: Greystone Books),
Palmer, Parker J., On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old, (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers), 2018
Parker, Ann, Follow Me to Alaska, (Ann Parker), 2020
Patel, Eboo, Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America (Boston: Beacon Press), 2012.
Patterson, Stephen J., The Forgotten Creed: Christianity's Original Struggle against Bigotry, Slavery and Sexism (New York: Oxford University Press), 2018
Pessl, Fred “Skip”, Barren Grounds: The Story of the Tragic Moffatt Canoe Trip (Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press) 2014.
Poissel, Paul, Les Faits D’Hiver (The Facts of Winter) Translated with an afterward by Paul La Farge (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2011)
Potter, Margaret Yardley, At Home on the Range, presented by Elizabeth Gilbert (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2012)
Poundstone, Paula, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books), 2017.
Priest, Rena, Patriarchy Blues, (Tillamook, OR: MoonPath Press), 2017
Rilke, Rainer Maria, A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke translated and edited by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows (New York: Harper, 2009)
Roberts, Mike, The Last keeper at Split Rock: A Memoir (St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press, 2010)
Rohr, Richard, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House) 2016.
Rohr, Richard, the Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe (New York: Convergent), 2019
Rohr, Richard: Falling Upward (San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 2011)
Rollins, Peter, How (Not) to Speak of God, (Brewster, Ma: Paraclete Press, 2006)
Sagan, Carl, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (New York: Ballantine, 1994)
Sagan, Dorion, Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
Salisbury, Christina and Kirby, Chance Along: A Wind Worth Waiting For (Floweree, Montana: Biama Books) 2013
Salisbury, Christina and Kirby, Treehouse Perspectives: Living High on Little, (Minneapolis: Mill City Press) 2009
Salyes, John, A Moment in the Sun (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2011)
Sayles, John, The Anarchists’ Convention and Other Stories (New York: Avalon/Nation Books, 1979)
Scalzi, John, Redshirts, (New York: Tom Doherty Associates), 2012.
Schendzielos, Ryan, The Church of Disunity, (Rapid City, SD: Shelter 50 Publishing), 2015.
Schindler, Rob, Hot Dogs & Hamburgers: Unlocking Life’s Potential by Inspiring Literacy at Any Age (Austin, TX: River Grove Books, 2012)
Schooler, Lynn, The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild, (New York: Harper Collins), 2003.
Sedaris, David, Calypso (Center City, MN: Hazelden), 2010.
Sedaris, David, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, etc. (New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2013).
Sedaris, David, The Best of Me (New York: Back Bay Books), 2020
Sedaris, David, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977- 2002, (New York: Little, Brown and Company), 2017.
Sedaris, David, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 (New York: Little, Brown and Company), 2017.
Service, Robert, Collected Poems of Robert Service (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons) 1940.
Sevareid, Eric, Canoeing with the Cree (Minneapolis: Borealis Books, first edition, 1969, Borealis edition, 2004)
Shadid, Anthony, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012).
Showalter, Michael, Mr. Funny Pants (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011)
Simard, Suzanne, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (New York: Alfred A. Knopf), 2021
Smith, Don Ian, Wild Rivers and Mountain Trails (Nashville: Abingdon, 1972).
Snider, Phil, Preaching After God (Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2012)
Snyder, Maryhelen, Never the Loss of Wings (Baltimore, MD: Passager Books, 2015)
Snyder, Maryhelen, No Hole in the Flame: A story of Love and Loss in Prose and Poetry (Albuquerque, New Mexico: Wildflower Press, 2003)
Spector, Neil, M.D., Gone in a Heartbeat: A Physician's Search for True Healing (Oxford, Mississippi: Triton Press) 2015
Spong, John Shelby, Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy (New York: Harper One) 2016.
St. Aubyn, Edward, the Complete Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last, (New York: Picador), 2012.
Steinbeck, John, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, (New York: Penguin), 1995 edition.
Stone, Elizabeth, Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2008)
Straight, Susan, Between Heaven and Here (San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2012).
Swanberg, W. A., The Rector and the Rogue (San Francisco: Collins/McSweeneys, 2011).
Taylor, Jill Bolte, My Stroke of Insight: A Brian Scientist's Personal Journey, (New York: Plume), 2009.
Tessiere, Tess (Grandma Tess), White Spirit Bear, (Surrey, B.C. Canada: Hancock House, 2000.
Tippett, Krista, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living (New York: Penguin Press) 2016.
Tong, Nyuol Lueth, ed., There is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan, (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2013)
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