11 books
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3 voters
Fishing Books
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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,345,828 ratings — published 1952
Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 52 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,915 ratings — published 1986
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.19 — 31,145 ratings — published 1976
The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,287 ratings — published 1999
The River Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,827 ratings — published 1983
Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.34 — 996 ratings — published 1990
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,760 ratings — published 1997
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,985 ratings — published 1997
The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,003 ratings — published 1676
The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,605 ratings — published
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.43 — 678 ratings — published 2000
Another Lousy Day in Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.39 — 454 ratings — published 1996
Standing in a River Waving a Stick (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 769 ratings — published 1999
The View From Rat Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.37 — 438 ratings — published 1988
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,942 ratings — published 2017
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.55 — 17,347 ratings — published 2007
Still Life With Brook Trout (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.34 — 341 ratings — published 2005
Even Brook Trout Get The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 522 ratings — published 1992
Dances With Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 18 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.35 — 483 ratings — published 1994
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling (Audio CD)
by (shelved 17 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.09 — 839 ratings — published
At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 17 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.36 — 475 ratings — published 2003
A Fly Rod of Your Own (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 16 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.34 — 541 ratings — published 2017
A River Runs Through It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,395 ratings — published 1976
Fool's Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 542 ratings — published 2008
All Fishermen Are Liars (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.30 — 710 ratings — published 2014
The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing (Little Books)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.22 — 423 ratings — published 2010
Fly Fishing Small Streams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.27 — 386 ratings — published 1989
No Shortage of Good Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.40 — 600 ratings — published 2011
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,044 ratings — published 2010
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,931 ratings — published 1999
Trout Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.28 — 197 ratings — published 1960
Bear and Hare Go Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.41 — 485 ratings — published 2014
Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,953 ratings — published 2013
Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.33 — 332 ratings — published 1991
The Founding Fish (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,245 ratings — published 2002
A River Never Sleeps (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.36 — 178 ratings — published 1944
All the Time in the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.42 — 551 ratings — published 2023
Habit of Rivers: Reflections On Trout Streams And Fly Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.24 — 253 ratings — published 1994
The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies: Fifty iconic flies revealing fishing's evolution, regional traditions, and the craft of tying. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.17 — 244 ratings — published 2015
In a Village by the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.16 — 715 ratings — published 2015
Hemingway on Fishing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.05 — 442 ratings — published 2000
An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.25 — 463 ratings — published 2010
Good Flies: Favorite Trout Patterns and How They Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.17 — 143 ratings — published 2000
Trout Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.21 — 140 ratings — published 1974
Trout Fishing in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.76 — 17,007 ratings — published 1967
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 3.68 — 488 ratings — published 2021
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.42 — 678 ratings — published 2020
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,739 ratings — published 2018
Tenkara: Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly Fishing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as fishing)
avg rating 4.05 — 146 ratings — published 2011
“Rainborough wished that there was some way of becoming intimate with a woman which did not involve these agonizing moments of irrevocable decision. It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish—graceful, mysterious, desirable and free—and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.”
― The Flight from the Enchanter
― The Flight from the Enchanter













