I’m hoping to read about people living in natural settings, from the land. Fiction or nonfiction is fine for me.
Bonus points if: 1. They’re alone, or with only a few people. 2. A part of the book is spent talking about farming, hunting, or other ways to get food. 3. There’s snow involved at any point.
Books with some or all of these points that I enjoyed as an example: The Snow Child (so good) and These Silent Woods (bad).
by leeinflowerfields
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Deer Man: Seven Years of Living in the Wild by Geoffroy Delome seeks perfect for you. It’s nonfiction about a man who went and lived with deer. I’ve been wanting to read it for some time!
Also maybe check out:
The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
Gone to the Woods by Gary Paulson (especially if you enjoyed his tween books like Hatchet)
also, a bit different, but in middle school I loved Rowing the Atlantic. If open ocean does interest you, maybe check out Life of Pi too.
If YA is okay, My Side of the Mountain by Jean George and Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver is a novel set in Appalachia with 3 interwoven narratives: 1 features a woman living in a primitive cabin while tracking wildlife in a national forest, another about another woman trying to figure out what to do with a family farm after her husband unexpectedly dies, and the 3rd about an elderly man trying to breed blight-resistant chestnut trees using conventional, regimented techniques while his neighbor grows an organic orchard.
Into the Wild
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the North Pond Hermit by Michael Finkel. It’s a true story about an odd guy.
Depending on your mood I would recommend The Vaster Wilds (beautiful tragic) or Pilgrim At Tinker Creek (beautiful quaint) or The Tracker (biography of outdoorsman and naturalist Tom Brown Jr)