Here is an extensive collection of books about all things outdoors that was curated by people who love all things outdoors! This list is a work in progress. If you have a favorite title that you don’t see listed, leave it in the comments and we will add it! Happy reading Outsiders!
Here is Mike’s list of must read books:
Entertaining

Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Carolyn Jourdan
A Thru-Hiking Trilogy – Three Book Box Set: Three Books – Three Trails – Three Adventures by Keith Fosket
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
Deep
One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith
Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey Into the Alaskan Wild by James Campbell
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
How To/Self Help
Among the Cloud Splitters: Place Names in the High Peaks Wilderness Area by Erik Schlimmer
Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass by Harold Gatty
Be Expert with Map and Compass by Bjorn Kjellstrom
How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere by Bradford Angier
The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley
Vertical Aid: Essential Wilderness Medicine for Climbers, Trekkers, and Mountaineers by Seth C. Hawkins
Training for the New Alpinism by Steve House
Fiction
The River by Peter Heller
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
A River Runs Through it and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Mountaineering/Climbing
Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks by Ed Viesturs
Minus 148 Degrees by Art Davidson
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer
The Push: A Climber’s Search for the Path by Tommy Caldwell
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest by Conrad Anker
K2, The Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story of Disaster and Survival on the World’s Second Highest Mountain by Charles S. Houston
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills by The Mountaineers Club

Adventure
On Thin Ice: An Epic Final Quest into the Melting Arctic by Eric Larsen
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor
Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland by Ken Ilgunas
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Sciencey
The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America by Hannah Nordhaus
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Survival
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting by Fernanda Santos
The Last Season by Eric Blehm
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
Here is Stephanie’s list of must read books:

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
2,000 Miles Together: The Story of the Largest Family to Hike the Appalachian Trail by Ben Crawford
And here is the crowdsourced list from HikeWNY on Facebook:
Cold River by William Judson
The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery
At the Mercy of the Mountains by Peter Bronski
Fifty South to Fifty South
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The impossible First: From Fire to Ice-Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O’Brady
Adirondack French Louis Early Life in the North Woods by Harvey L. Dunham
Vagabonding in America by Ed Buryn
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
North: Finding my way while running the Appalachian Trail by Scott Jurek
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
NO PAIN NO MAINE by Dan Seiflein
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
The Unlikely Thru-hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey by Derick Lugo
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail by D. Dauphinee
Missing 411 by David Paulides
Dear Bob and Sue by Matt and Karen Smith
River Teeth by David James Duncan
River-Horse by William Least Heat Moon
Woodswoman : Living Alone in the Adirondacks by Anne LaBastille
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Solo: On Her Own Adventure by Susan Fox Rogers
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aaron Ralston
The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Quest: A Guide to Backpacking With Teens by Susan Cobb
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage by Brian Castner
My Grandpa’s Woods The Adirondacks by Larry Beahan
The Barefoot Sisters Southbound by Lucy and Susan Letcher
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Ranger Confidential by Andrea Lankford
On The Edge: Leadership Lessons from Mount Everest and Other Extreme Environments by Allison Levine
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller
Flight 29 Down by Walter Sorrells
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Dangerous River by R.M.Patterson
My Lead Dog Was A Lesbian: Mushing Across Alaska in the Iditarod- The World’s Most Grueling Race by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue
This Much Country by Kristin Knight Pace
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball
What books did we miss?
The Lure of the Labrador Wilds by Dillon Wallace
The 29th Day by Alex Messenger
Not Without Peril : 150 Years of Misadventure..By Nicholas Howe
One Man’s Wilderness , An Alaskan Odyssey
by Sam Keith
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard.