2026 Reading Challenge

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H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldWaterlog by Roger DeakinThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneThe Wild Places by Robert MacfarlaneFindings by Kathleen Jamie
British and Irish Nature Writing
249 books — 168 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienImpossible by Nancy WerlinWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldRed Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Landscape Book Covers
328 books — 93 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererSilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Nature Writing
252 books — 50 voters
About Three Authors by Patti RobertsLake News by Barbara DelinskyLake Wobegon Days by Garrison KeillorMoonlight on Butternut Lake by Mary McNearIron Lake by William Kent Krueger
Fiction Books Set On A Lake
71 books — 40 voters

An Ordinary Day by Karen HaberbergLooking at Mexico / Mexico Looks Back by Janet SternburgShirelands by Tracey SwainHillerman Country by Tony HillermanI've Been Walking by Janet Sternburg
Best Photo and Art Books
54 books — 40 voters
Tiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerThe Well-Tempered Garden by Christopher LloydAround the World in 80 Gardens by Montagu DonThe Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll by Richard BisgroveItalian Gardens by Montagu Don
Garden design and history
26 books — 15 voters

Kiro's Emily by Abbi GlinesSeduction by M.J. RoseThe Stonecutter's Daughter by Janet WoodsSeven Days and Six Worst-Case Scenarios by Leslie HuggansLana by R.K. Lilley
Face the Ocean
42 books — 11 voters
The Poetics of Space by Gaston BachelardLife Takes Place by David SeamonThe Fate of Place by Edward S. CaseyBeing Together in Place by Soren C. LarsenHeidegger and the Thinking of Place by Jeff E. Malpas
Best Books on Philosophy of Place
99 books — 8 voters

National Audubon Society Guide to Landscape Photography by Tim FitzharrisSecrets of the Whales by James CameronAnsel Adams by Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams by Ansel AdamsWriters of the American South by Hugh Howard
Landscape Photography
117 books — 8 voters
The Sprite and the Gardener by Rii AbregoBirding Is My Favorite Video Game by Rosemary MoscoNaturalist by Jim OttavianiPaying the Land by Joe SaccoPilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen
Nature, Place and Environment Writing in Comics and Graphic Novels
34 books — 8 voters

The Home Place by J. Drew LanhamThe Edge of the Sea by Rachel CarsonThe Unsettling of America by Wendell BerryI Thirst by Gina Marinello-SweeneyWhen the Squirrel Sings by Shana Hollowell
Poetic Nature Writing
14 books — 6 voters
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe... by Daniel DefoeThe World of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Marta McDowellElemental South by Dorinda G. DallmeyerWilliam Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design by Thomas HallockNature Writings by John Muir
Nature Lit — Literature & Oral Tradition, with regard to the Natural World
282 books — 6 voters

Blue Dahlia by Nora RobertsSecond Chance Match by Arlene JamesThree Down the Aisle by Sherryl WoodsTo Catch a Lorelei by Phyllis HousemanDad in Demand by Metsy Hingle
Nurseries in Romance
15 books — 5 voters
The Past From Above by Charlotte TrümplerOverview by Benjamin GrantGeology Illustrated by John S. SheltonEarth from Above by Yann Arthus-BertrandYou Are Here by Chris Hadfield
Aerial Photography Worldwide
40 books — 4 voters

River Cities, City Rivers by Thaïsa WayShaping the Postwar Landscape by Charles A BirnbaumA Valley Grows Up by Edward OsmondFrom Rails to Trails by Peter HarnikOvergrown by Julian Raxworthy
Landscape Architecture and Design
28 books — 4 voters
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeDoomsday Book by Connie WillisYear of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksA Great Deliverance by Elizabeth GeorgeGhosts of Spring by Luis Carrasco
Ideas for Escaping London: Intriguing British Books Beyond the Biggest City
49 books — 4 voters

The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur MachenStag Boy by William RaynerThe Old Weird Albion by Justin HopperGhostland by Edward ParnellEngland on Fire by Stephen Ellcock
Psychick Albion
67 books — 4 voters
Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity by Debbie FeltonIzima Kaoru by Yuko HasegawaEscape Hatch & the Long Road Ahead by Vladimir MakaninShantytown, USA by Lisa GoffAgainst Gray Walls, or, Lawyer's Dramatic Escapes by Michael I. Kustoff
"Scape"
163 books — 3 voters

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca SolnitThe Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka UgrešićReborn by Susan SontagAs Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh by Susan SontagThe Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
Mentioned in Lost Children Archive: On Landscape, Love, and History
50 books — 2 voters
John the Balladeer by Manly Wade WellmanWisconsin Death Trip by Michael LesyThe Fool Killer by Helen EustisThe Old Gods Waken by Manly Wade WellmanThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
North American Otherly Pastoral
21 books — 2 voters

Glasgow's Secret Geometry by Harry BellThe Land That Never Was by Vasily PasetskyThe Secret Plan of Canberra by Peter ProudfootBolivia, as the Insidious Author and Persistent Perpetrator o... by Hinton Rowan HelperThe Historical Encyclopedia of Atlantic Nautical Hazards by Raymond John Howgego
•Kenocartographobia
100 books — 1 voter
Inside City Parks by Peter HarnikUrban Parks and Open Space by Alexander GarvinSaving Central Park by Elizabeth Barlow RogersCentral Park by Charles River EditorsAnimating Central Park by Dawn Day Biehler
Nonfiction Books about Parks and Outdoor Communal Spaces in the USA
22 books — 1 voter

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