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Top authors writing great outdoors literary-fiction
Bill Peet
122 ratings 4.17 ·
literary · children · outdoors · literary-fiction · middle-grade · animals · book · fiction · children-books · family · humor · classics
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Norman Maclean
64 ratings 4.14 ·
anthologies · classics · literary · action-adventure · family · fiction · western · sports · drama · industrial-era · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · realistic · 20th-century · outdoors · audiobook · philosophy · historical · high-school · coming-of-age
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Gene Stratton-Porter
142 ratings 4.05 ·
fiction · book · classics · literary · historical-fiction · historical · romance · spirituality · young-adult · outdoors · christian · 20th-century · literary-fiction · animals · children · audiobook · drama · coming-of-age · action-adventure · female-author
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Edward Abbey
173 ratings 4.01 ·
western · outdoors · book · literary-fiction · adult · fiction · literary · classics · politics · historical-fiction · industrial-era · philosophy · humor · historical · action-adventure · contemporary · crime · audiobook · apocalyptic · season-summer
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Rick Bass
64 ratings 3.98 ·
fiction · outdoors · adult · literary-fiction · anthologies · audiobook · contemporary · crime · fantasy · violent-conflict · war · sports · prison · young-adult · psychological · action-adventure · torture · life-death · family · historical
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George R. Stewart
49 ratings 3.92 ·
outdoors · historical · fiction · literary-fiction · sci-fi · book · classics · literary · action-adventure · horror · historical-fiction · hard-sci-fi · dystopia · survival · near-future · philosophical · alternate-history · audiobook · disaster · usa
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Bérengère Cournut
22 ratings 3.91 ·
literary-fiction · adult · fiction · book · female-author · outdoors · poc-author · audiobook · drama · contemporary · season-winter
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Abby Geni
40 ratings 3.85 ·
contemporary · literary-fiction · adult · crime · animals · fiction · outdoors · action-adventure · suspense · book · thriller · female-author · mystery · audiobook · terrorism · family · anthologies · paranormal · grief · gothic
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Peter Heller
166 ratings 3.84 ·
book · contemporary · fiction · literary-fiction · adult · drama · outdoors · audiobook · suspense · action-adventure · mystery · crime · 21st-century · realistic · thriller · season-summer · family · grief · animals · psychological
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Nicholas Evans
123 ratings 3.83 ·
drama · western · fiction · romance · audiobook · industrial-era · action-adventure · book · literary-fiction · family · contemporary · adult · mystery · animals · womens-fiction · outdoors · suspense · anthropomorphism · psychological · epic
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Maja Lunde
64 ratings 3.78 ·
fiction · audiobook · sci-fi · historical-fiction · book · dystopia · female-author · literary-fiction · adult · 21st-century · historical · post-apocalyptic · outdoors · pollution-climate-change · drama · family · animals · literary · nautical · disaster
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Amy Greene
35 ratings 3.74 ·
mental-illness · rural · family · 20th-century · book · literary-fiction · adult · drama · female-author · mystery · fiction · historical · audiobook · outdoors · historical-fiction · paranormal · coming-of-age · suspense · north-america · poverty
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Charles Frazier
117 ratings 3.72 ·
historical-fiction · audiobook · historical · fiction · adult · literary-fiction · book · industrial-era · outdoors · violent-conflict · friendship · male-author · western · mystery · drama · war · rural · action-adventure · civil-war · family
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Ernest Callenbach
31 ratings 3.68 ·
literary · classics · book · sci-fi · fiction · adult · outdoors · action-adventure · apocalyptic · utopia · contemporary · politics · literary-fiction · university · futuristic · dystopia · pollution-climate-change · 20th-century · north-america · male-mc
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Stef Penney
58 ratings 3.67 ·
historical-fiction · audiobook · fiction · mystery · female-author · literary-fiction · adult · book · killer · outdoors · survival · 21st-century · historical · thriller · drama · crime · suspense · action-adventure · industrial-era · season-winter
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Sara Baume
46 ratings 3.63 ·
outdoors · book · contemporary · audiobook · 21st-century · fiction · animals · literary-fiction · adult · female-author · dark · psychological · dogs · family · mental-illness · unreliable-narrator · death · realistic · romantic-love · friendship
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David Vann
86 ratings 3.57 ·
book · fiction · literary-fiction · family · contemporary · adult · drama · outdoors · audiobook · mental-illness · horror · survival · action-adventure · north-america · realistic · coming-of-age · abuse · mystery · psychological · dark
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