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Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerForever on the Mountain by James M. TaborBuried in the Sky by Peter ZuckermanInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko
Banff Mountain Book Festival Award Winners
15th out of 171 books — 38 voters
The Wild Places by Robert MacfarlaneLove's own voice by S.KalidasRujuvathu by N. Manu ChakravarthyLetter to My Daughter by Maya AngelouWhen God is a Traveller by Arundhathi Subramaniam
My Fave Reads August - September- October2014
1st out of 13 books — 2 voters

Cloud Atlas by David  MitchellThe Amber Spyglass by Philip PullmanHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFingersmith by Sarah WatersMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Best Books of THIS Century.
148th out of 2,249 books — 2,264 voters
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonWildwood Dancing by Juliet MarillierWild Swans by Jung ChangThe Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker
Wild in the Title
110th out of 770 books — 33 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonWild by Cheryl Strayed
Best Popular Travel Books on Goodreads
271st out of 315 books — 53 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Nature Books
329th out of 1,154 books — 791 voters

Walking Wild by Jose A NevesSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Overstory by Richard PowersThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
Best Popular Nature Books on Goodreads
85th out of 303 books — 58 voters
The Lost Words by Robert MacfarlaneThe Druids by Peter Berresford EllisThe Book of Druidry by Ross NicholsIf Women Rose Rooted by Sharon BlackieThe Mabinogion Tetralogy by Evangeline Walton
OBOD Druidry Recommended Reading
20th out of 39 books — 7 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonLast Child in the Woods by Richard LouvSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Ecological Fiends
198th out of 262 books — 17 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingEclipse by Stephenie MeyerA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareThe Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Best Books of 2007
922nd out of 1,115 books — 993 voters

Shishapangma by Doug K. ScottTouching the Void by Joe SimpsonPainted Mountains by Stephen VenablesFreedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonaldBeyond the Mountain by Steve House
Boardman Tasker Mountain Literature Winners
31st out of 44 books — 2 voters
Notes from a Small Island by Bill BrysonRound Ireland with a Fridge by Tony HawksThe Road to Little Dribbling by Bill BrysonTravelling Cat in Ireland by Frederick HarrisonTravelling Cat by Frederick Harrison
Armchair travel: British Isles
23rd out of 95 books — 7 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAstoria by Peter     StarkThe Apache Wars by Paul Andrew HuttonThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
All Mountain & Prairie Podcast Recommended Books
361st out of 385 books — 10 voters
The Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneWhite Oleander by Janet FitchThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Wanderer
16th out of 103 books — 5 voters

Devotions by Mary OliverH Is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Songlines by Bruce ChatwinMeditations by Marcus AureliusThe Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Best Uplifting Reads
22nd out of 24 books — 1 voter
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensRivers of London by Ben AaronovitchThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameAll Things Bright and Beautiful by James HerriotCaptain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire by Dan Hanks
Very British
167th out of 299 books — 14 voters

Wild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonAnd the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniScene of the Climb by Kate E. Dyer-SeeleyInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Mountains Are Calling...
52nd out of 171 books — 13 voters
The Snow Leopard by Peter MatthiessenInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonMountains of the Mind by Robert MacfarlaneThere's Always the Hills by Cameron McNeish
Mountains and Highlands
27th out of 117 books — 22 voters

Wild by Cheryl StrayedHeidi by Johanna SpyriMen for the Mountains by Sid MartyInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Books for Mountain Lovers
25th out of 66 books — 25 voters
Me Before You by Jojo MoyesThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsWinter by Marissa MeyerCinder by Marissa MeyerThe Martian by Andy Weir
What we've read so far in 2016
7728th out of 7,973 books — 984 voters

The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahMe Before You by Jojo MoyesAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrA Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016
5972nd out of 6,060 books — 685 voters
At Home by Bill BrysonThe Shepherd's Life by James RebanksThe Book Club Cookbook by Judy GelmanWalking by Henry David ThoreauNorth American Backyard Birdwatching for All Seasons by Marcus H. Schneck
Nonfiction books about hobbies and leisure activities
142nd out of 222 books — 16 voters

Refuge by Terry Tempest WilliamsA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWalden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Biographies of Place
188th out of 279 books — 52 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Wanderlust
383rd out of 1,072 books — 1,159 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the 21st Century
5843rd out of 9,849 books — 22,120 voters
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques RousseauOpen City by Teju ColeSpeak, Memory by Vladimir NabokovThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
If You Like W.G. Sebald
63rd out of 118 books — 18 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienLost in Tokyo by Jenny LynneWildwood by Roger  DeakinOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Travel as Individuation Stories
20th out of 46 books — 16 voters