Nature in Fiction
Explore the best fiction books celebrating nature. Discover captivating stories where the natural world plays a central role, from lush forests to wild landscapes.
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Edward Abbey
Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur …
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Hayduke Lives!
by Edward Abbey
George Washington Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret, gathers his friends, the Monkey Wrench Gang, to oppose developers and the world's largest earth-moving machine
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August Roads
by Kirk Robinson
August Roads tells two stories of struggle and redemption set against the remote wilds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and along the historical grace …
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A Friend of the Earth
by T.C. Boyle
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award–winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes an “entertaining and informative” (Chicago Tribune) novel about global warming and ecological collapse. …
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Where the Sea Used to Be
by Rick Bass
A romance in the wilds of Montana between an oil prospector and a woman who studies wolves. Together they face the forces of nature and …
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Hungry for Home
by 'Asta Bowen
Transforming the territorial conflict between humanity and animals into a remarkable work of fiction, Hungry for Home is the story of Marta, a cunning wolf …
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Fire on the Mountain
by Edward Abbey
Fire on the Mountain Grandfather John Vogelin's land is his life -- a barren stretch of New Mexican wilderness, mercifully bypassed by civilization. Then the …
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Ecotopia
by Ernest Callenbach
Classic novel portraying a humane and joyous sustainable state in America.
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Earth Abides
by George Rippey Stewart
Returning from a field trip, Isherwood Williams discovers that a mysterious plague has destroyed human civilization during his absence and makes his way to San …
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Icefields
by Thomas Wharton
"This is an uncommonly beautiful novel. Its final sentence 'I want to show you something rather extraordinary' might have been its first. Nearly every page …
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The Mosquito Coast
by Paul Theroux
In one of Theroux's most magnificent novels, the paranoid, brilliant, and self-destructive Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to …
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire
by Jack London
The Call of the Wild—Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time To this day Jack London is …
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Skywater
by Melinda Worth Popham
“This spare and affecting novel has the precision and the stinging sweetness of a fable... a wonderful book.” —Thomas McGuane “Evoking a rich sense of …
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Elena of the Stars
by C. P. Rosenthal
On the brink of adulthood, young Elena visits her widowed grandfather and befriends her late grandmother's golden stallion, and Elena and the horse are thrust …