Book recommendations

[isItFallYet]

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean is a good one if you like non-fiction

That’s the A River Runs Through It author, isn’t it?

 

[volunteerconservationist]

1. Forgotten Grasslands of the South, by Reed Noss
2. Rivers Under Siege: The Troubled Saga of West Tennessee's Wetlands, by Jim W. Johnson
3. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization, by David R. Montgomery
4. Cloudbursts, by Thomas McGuane
5. The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
6. Bowhunting Public Land Whitetails, by Tony Peterson
7. Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, by Charles Larpenteur
8. The History of Tennessee, by William Henry Carpenter
9. Beyond Fair Chase, by Jim Posewitz
10. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, by Andres Resendez
11. A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks, by Allen Morris Jones
12. Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses, by James H. Miller & Karl V. Miller
13. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle
14. Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
15. The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation edited by Shane Mahoney & Valerius Geist

 

[Q child]

That’s the A River Runs Through It author, isn’t it?

It is. Young Men and Fire is non-fiction. An amazing and tragic story. A good book.

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

One Second After...

 

[Marbles]

Empires of Light (history on the early days of electricity)

For military history reading

Roughneck One Nine
Masters of Chaos
Not a Good Day to Die
Scar's of Independence
The Last Lion (all 3 books in the series)
The Last Ridge
A Man Called Intrepid
The Black Banners (Declassified)
On Desperate Ground
Empire of the Summer Moon
Ghost Wars
The Lions Gate
The Black Count
Nine Roads to Hell
Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown
The Ghosts of Cannae
The Mission, the Men, and Me
On the Origions of War: And the Preservation of Peace


While it is historical fiction, Gates of Fire is worth reading.

 

[SWOHTR]

Military:
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
Neptune's Inferno

Other:
Endurance by Alfred Lansing, about Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica.

 

[Rick M.]

Here are some of the most meaningful and impactful books I've read:

• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (Perspective / Meaning)
• Shogun by James Clavell (Historical Fiction)
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Philosophy / Values)
• Labyrinth of Ice by Buddy Levy (Nonfiction / Harrowing survival) (Audiobook is great)
• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason (Money / Economics)
• God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens (Religion) (Audiobook is great and read by Hitchens)
• The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (Philosophy / Perspective)

 

[LostArra]

No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)- best bad guy ever

Isaac's Storm (Erik Larson) mandatory reading for all Texans

Hellhound on His Trail (Hampton Sides) amazing manhunt in the days before cell phones and credit cards

 

[Ddog]

Anything by Stephen Ambrose or Cormac McCarthy.
A Hunter's Heart; Honest Essays on Blood Sport by various authors.

 

[Wyobohunter]

That’s the A River Runs Through It author, isn’t it?

Yes, all of his stuff is good. Cliche thing to say but… way better than the movie.

 

[Centralcoastca]

History:
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides (history of the settlement of the American southwest centered around Kit Carson)
Blood and Treasure by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin (history of the settlement of Appalachia centered around Daniel Boone)

Historical novels:
The Revenant (story of Hugh Glass) and Ridgeline (story of the Fetterman Fight) by Michael Punke

Fiction:
anything by Louis L'amour

Just started blood and treasure and am enjoying it. Pretty interesting little bits throughout so far.

 

[longspeak74]

Mentioned already, but anything Cormac McCarthy.
Also Solace of Open Spaces is an annual read for me.

 

[SirChooCH]

Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser Busch - was free to read on Kindle and really good. Follows each of the family generational presidents of the company up til the 4th screwed it up.

The "Killing" series by Bill O'Reilly. Just read Killing Jesus, Killing Crazy Horse, currently on Killing England. Its a brief history of each period of time around these events. The footnotes are the most interesting parts. The cross carried by Jesus was actually just the top cross beam, weighed 55-75 lbs so not the entire cross shown in all modern depictions. Ulysses S Grant smoked 40 cigars a day. Etc.

 

[lifeisgoodsteve]

• Tennessee Frontier Trilogy - Cameron Judd
• Sharpe Series - Bernard Cornwell
• Joe Picket Series - CJ Box
• Fur, Fortune and Empire - Eric Jay Dolin (I listened to it on Audible)
• Sackett Series - Louis Lamour

 

[crs]

- American Buffalo, Steven Rinella
-Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden, Ben Moise
-A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

 

[TheBeej418]

Another for the Joe Pickett series by C.J. box. I borrow it from my library for free using Libby and read it on my Kindle.

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/c-j-box/joe-pickett/

 

[String&stick]

Not generally a reader here but a few Steven Pressfield titles had me losing sleep saying “one more chapter.”

Gates Of Fire
Man At Arms
The Profession

I will add a couple more pressfield books:
The afghan campaign (Alexander the great)
Tides of war (pelopenisian war)
Killing Rommel (WW2)
The lions gate (Israel's 6 day war)

 

[Vaultman]

I haven't seen a few in this thread yet (but I could have missed them)...

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Flyboys: A true Story of Courage by James Bradley ( this read is not for the faint of heart)
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schapp

 

[ScottR_EHJ]

I just finished Ambrose's "The Wild Blue", great as expected. Working on the "The Flying Tigers." History reading is my fun reads.

I just reread Entreleadership, and am working on The Advantage right now.

 

[hh76]

Jack London stories.
Ive read nearly all of his stories, and still go back to re read

Joseph Conrad
Lots of good adventures

A Life Wild and Perilous
True stories about mountain men

Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors.
I have an audio book of it, and really like it. Really digs deep into mindset of survivers. I find myself thinking about it on occasion when I'm wandering around deep in the woods. "What would I do, How would I react?"