Your Summer Destination: The Mountains
As the days turn warmer, you might be starting to think about where you want to spend your summer. And more importantly, what books you want to pack with you for your trip. If nature is calling your name, you’ll love exploring this list of books set out in the mountains.
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Add to BookshelfWhen I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East
by Quan Barry
Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama—a spiritual teacher who may have been born anywhere in the vast Mongolian landscape—the young monk Chuluun sets out with his identical twin, Mun, who has rejected the monastic life they once shared.  Quan Barry carries us across a terrain as unforgiving as it is beautiful and culturally varied, from the western Altai mountains to the eerie starkness of the Gobi Desert to the ancient capital of Chinggis Khaan. As their country stretches before them, questions of faith—along with more earthly matters of love and brotherhood—haunt the twins.
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A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
When Bill Bryson moved back to the United States, he wanted to reacquaint himself with his homeland by walking the Appalachian Trail, all 2,100 miles of it! Through the eyes of Bryson, this read is a wonderful exploration of the astonishing landscapes but also the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. Wise and laugh-out-loud funny, this is an adventure you don’t want to miss!
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The Giver of Stars: Reese’s Book Club
by Jojo Moyes
Follow a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era America. Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic–a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
by Nick Offerman
Actor and humorist Nick Offerman took three enlightening sojourns across the United States to better understand our relationship to our country’s wild spaces, both in our national parks and in our own backyards. He went hiking in Glacier National Park with Jeff Tweedy and George Saunders, visited his friend James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral, and bought an Airstream to drive around the country with his wife Megan Mullally. Each quest proved to be a unique experience that brought him closer to the land we all love.
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Betty
by Tiffany McDaniel
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl named Betty, and the family truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. Betty’s life is filled with hardships, but in her curiosity for the natural world she finds kindling for the fire of her own imagination.
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Uprooted
by Naomi Novik
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests, and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.
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Forest Bathing
by Dr. Qing Li
In today’s world, humans live separated from the natural world. As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder. In this remarkable book, Dr. Qing Li introduces readers to what the Japanese call shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing. By spending time around trees, we can reduce our stress levels and blood pressure, and strengthen our immune and cardiovascular systems, boost our energy, mood, creativity, and concentration, and even lose weight and live longer. Let this book be your guide to spend more time among the trees!
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The Guide
by Peter Heller
The bestselling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.
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Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami
This inventive novel from Haruki Murakami will have you booking a flight for the mountains of Japan. When a portrait painter’s marriage hits a rough patch, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, as he is exploring the house, he comes across a previously unseen painting. But in finding this work, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances…
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The Locals
by Jonathan Dee
Following 9/11, New York hedge fund billionaire Philip Hadi retreats to his summer home in the Berkshires. Enthralled by this slower pace of life, he ends up running for office to help keep it a sleepy hamlet free from tax hikes. Slowly Philip realizes just how much he is in over his head, with disastrous results.
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A Tramp Abroad
by Mark Twain
Where Bill Bryson went hiking in the United States, Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad is a similar take on life in Europe as he takes readers on a walking tour through the mountains of Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy. Filled with wonderful adventures, hilarious insights, and highly opinionated comments, Twain’s international voyage is like none you’ve ever taken before.
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Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet and encounter the Dalai Lama. Readers will follow Harrer as he travels across the rugged mountains and desolate plains in Tibet, and then follow him on a spiritual journey that opens up the world in new and exciting ways.
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Wild (Movie Tie-in Edition)
by Cheryl Strayed
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State–and she would do it alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
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In the Woods
by Tana French
In a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this particular evening, three children do not return from the woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and his partner find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery…
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The Hobbit (Movie Tie-in Edition)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
In this enchanting prequel to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit follows Bilbo Baggins, as he journeys from the wonders of Rivendell to the terrors of Mirkwood and beyond, inching ever closer to his destiny…a destiny that waits in the dark caverns beneath the Misty Mountains, where a twisted creature known as Gollum jealously guards a precious magic ring.
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My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Jean Craighead George
Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever.
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