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Thread #128158   Message #2942336
Posted By: Bettynh
09-Jul-10 - 09:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: Greatest American Books
Subject: RE: BS: Greatest American Books
All fiction? I read a lot of non-fiction:

Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac

Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire (and others)

John McPhee - Rising from the Plains (and many others)

Bernd Heinrich - The Trees in my Forest (and others)

john Muir - assorted short pieces

Henry David Thoreau - The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Sue Hubbell - A Country Year

As for fiction, anything by Annie Proulx or John Steinbeck.