Reading List 2016

Politics, etc   2

  • Audacity of Hope, Barak Obama
  • The American Constitution and Bill of Rights

Edward Abbey    7

  • The Best of Edward Abbey
  • Journey Home
  • Abbey’s Road
  • Down the River
  • Desert Solitaire
  • The Brave Cowboy (Fiction)
  • All the West that Remains, Gessner

Fiction  10

  • Light Action in the Caribbean, Lopez (short stories)
  • Platte River, Rick Bass (novellas)
  • Letters from Earth, Mark Twain
  • Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain
  • Benediction, Kent Haruf (reread)
  • The Rope, Nevada Barr
  • When Madeline Was Young, Hamilton
  • Cry in the Night, Coble
  • Willow Field, William Kittridge
  • Barkskins, Annie Proulx

Non-fiction, Nature, Outdoors     6

  • Collected Works of John Burroughs, Vol 1
  • Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals.
  • From the Forest: Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Folktales, Maitland
  • Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday, Niequist
  • The Geese of Beaver Bog, Bernd Heinrich
  • American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, McKibben, Gore
  • Of Wolves and Men, Lopez

Non-fiction, Misc      2

  • The Art of Nonconformtiy:  Guillebeau
  • Nature of the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, Plotikin

Memoir, nature     3

  • The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humbolt’s New World, Wulf  (Audible)
  • About this World: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory, Barry Lopez
  • Polar Dream: The First Solar Expedition By A Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole, Helen Thayer

Environment 3

  • The Green Bible, Harper Bibles
  • Half Earth, Edward O. Wilson
  • Creation, Edward O. Wilson

Birds     6

  • The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Bird Songs, Kroodsma
  • The Warbler Guide, Stephenson
  • Kingbird Highway, Kenn Kaufman
  • Familiar Birds of the Northwest
  • National Geographic Guide to Birdwatching Sites
  • Peterson Field Guide to Hawks

Other Field Guides   3

  • Day Hiking Eastern Washington, Landers
  • Hiking Inland Northwest
  • Butterflies, Kaufman

Writing      3

Refugees   1

  • City of Thorns: 9 Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp, Rawlence

TESL  8

Sewing, Hobbies        18

  • Silk Unraveled, Moffat
  • Paper Pieced Modern: 13 Stunning Quilts, Garro
  • Stupendous Stitching, Waugh
  • Modern Applique Illusions, York
  • Happy Ending: Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt, Deitrich
  • 336 Ten Minute Quilt Blocks, Schmidt
  • Quilts from Nature, Colvin
  • Foolproof Walking Foot Quilting Designs, Mashuta
  • Five-Minute Quilt Blocks, McNeil
  • 101 Quilting Motifs
  • 1000 Great Quilting Designs
  • Quilting Line and Color, Jinzenji
  • Happy Quilts: Cheerful Quilts to Brighten Your Home, Fall
  • Community Quilts: How to Organize and Group Quilt, Kavaya
  • Machine Applique Made Easy, Wells
  • Glorious Patchwork, Fassett
  • Quilt Toppings, Crust
  • Maverick Quilts, Ballard

Spiritual Journey   3

  • Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey, Strand
  • The Mystical Backpacker: How to Discover your Destiny in the Modern World, Papp
  • Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in and Ordinary World, Goff

Healing     3

  • Reiki Touch: The Complete Home Healing System, Rand
  • Reiki: A Complete Natural Guide to Natural Energy Healing, White
  • Essential Oils, Hall

Faith Reading     7

  • Words that Hurt, Words that Heal: Speaking the Truth in Love, Mayhall
  • Speaking the Truth in Love, Virkler
  • Speaking the Truth in Love: Counsel in Community, Powlison
  • The Gospel of Mary: A Fresh Translation, Mattison
  • Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, McArthur
  • Reimagining the Human, Fernandez
  • The Unanswered Prayers of Jesus, Evans