We're back with a bunch more recommendations to help you tackle the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge! Here's what we're chatting about today:

 

Book About Nature

Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello

The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett

Shark Drunk by Morten Strøksnes

Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson

 

Western

True Grit by Charles Portis

The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

World, Chase Me Down by Andrew Hilleman

Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

The Assassination Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen

The Pinks by Chris Enss

 

Celebrity Memoir

Vacationland by John Hodgman

Troublemaker by Leah Remini

Ginger Kid by Steve Hoffstetter

This is Me by Chrissy Metz

You're Never Weird on the Internet (almost) by Felicia Day

The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide by Jenna Fischer

 

Children's Classic published before 1980

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis 

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor