210 books
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252 voters
Wilderness Books
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Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 124 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,189,469 ratings — published 1996
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.79 — 449,476 ratings — published 1987
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.07 — 865,709 ratings — published 2012
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.07 — 444,716 ratings — published 1998
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.91 — 471,270 ratings — published 1903
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.26 — 566,329 ratings — published 1997
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,175,894 ratings — published 2018
White Fang (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.03 — 206,757 ratings — published 1906
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,607,225 ratings — published 2018
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.10 — 85,017 ratings — published 1959
The River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,355 ratings — published 2019
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.88 — 349,426 ratings — published 1960
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,936 ratings — published 1854
The River (Brian's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.83 — 32,532 ratings — published 1991
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.06 — 145,853 ratings — published 1992
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,016 ratings — published 1849
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,190,180 ratings — published 1954
Into the Wilderness (Wilderness, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.12 — 43,536 ratings — published 1998
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (Audio CD)
by (shelved 20 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,941 ratings — published 2017
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,344 ratings — published 1968
Brian's Winter (Brian's Saga, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,995 ratings — published 1996
Heartwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.93 — 76,964 ratings — published 2025
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,614 ratings — published 2011
Brian's Return (Brian's Saga, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,196 ratings — published 1999
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.02 — 172,872 ratings — published 2012
The Vaster Wilds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.75 — 43,093 ratings — published 2023
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,187 ratings — published 1949
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.64 — 178,594 ratings — published 1999
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.11 — 195,429 ratings — published 2018
The Revenant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.96 — 54,671 ratings — published 2002
Dawn on a Distant Shore (Wilderness, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,716 ratings — published 2000
Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,930 ratings — published 2002
The God of the Woods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.11 — 761,602 ratings — published 2024
Queen of Swords (Wilderness, #5)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,144 ratings — published 2006
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.51 — 171,548 ratings — published 2013
Fire Along the Sky (Wilderness, #4)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.34 — 14,588 ratings — published 2004
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.23 — 64,447 ratings — published 1988
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,577 ratings — published 1993
The Last Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,660 ratings — published 2006
The Tenderness of Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,850 ratings — published 2006
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.14 — 81,867 ratings — published 1974
The Endless Forest (Wilderness, #6)
by (shelved 12 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.48 — 11,934 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,869,557 ratings — published 2008
These Silent Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.03 — 113,205 ratings — published 2021
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,368 ratings — published 1973
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.46 — 164,196 ratings — published 1959
Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 3.84 — 61,406 ratings — published 1972
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,604 ratings — published 1990
Alabama Moon (Alabama Moon, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,257 ratings — published 2004
Wilderness and the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wilderness)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,048 ratings — published 1967
“To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.”
― A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces – Essays and Sermons on Faith, Love, and the Power of Words
― A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces – Essays and Sermons on Faith, Love, and the Power of Words
“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B.
It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail












