Discover Our Favorite Nature & Yellowstone Reads

One of the questions we’re asked regularly is “Where did you learn all this information?”. The honest answer is, besides the years in the field observing and the network of world class guides and biologists we interact with regularly, I enjoy reading, and I tend to read a lot.

Below is a list of our favorite books about wildlife, Yellowstone, the environment and the world around us. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have!

Books about Yellowstone Wolves

  • The Rise of Wolf 8 – Rick McIntyre

  • The Reign of 21 – Rick McIntyre

  • The Redemption of 302 – Rick McIntyre

  • The Alpha Female Wolf – Rick McIntyre

  • Thinking Like a Wolf – Rick McIntyre

  • A Society of Wolves – Rick McIntyre

  • The Killing of Wolf 10 – Thomas MacNamee

  • Wolves on the Hunt – Daniel R. McNaulty, Douglas Smith, L. David Mech

  • Wolfer – Carter Neymeyer

  • American Wolf – Nate Blakeslee

Books About Wildlife

  • Coyote America – Dan Flores

  • Wild New World – Dan Flores

  • American Serengeti – Dan Flores

  • The Wisdom of Wolves – Jim and Jamie Dutcher

  • What an Owl Knows – Jennifer Ackerman

  • A Naturalist at Large – Bernd Heinrich

  • Winter World – Bernd Heinrich

  • Mind of the Raven – Bernd Heinrich

  • The Mosquito – Timothy Winegard

  • Monster of God – David Quammen

  • The Song of the Dodo – David Quammen

  • The Tangled Tree – David Quammen

  • Spillover – David Quammen

Classics

  • My First Summer in the Sierra – John Muir

  • Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

  • Desert Solitaire – Edward Abbey

  • The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey

  • Hayduke Lives – Edward Abbey

  • Engineering Eden – Jordan Fisher Smith

  • Undaunted Courage – Stephen E. Ambrose

  • A Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold

  • Last Stand – Michael Punke

  • Beyond Words – Carl Safina

  • Superlative – Matthew D. LaPlante

  • The Animal Dialogues – Craig Childs

  • Atlas of a Lost World – Craig Childs

  • American Buffalo – Steven Rinella

  • Never Cry Wolf – Farley Mowat

  • Eavesdropping on Animals – George Bumann

  • Of Wolves and Men – Barry Lopez

  • Grizzly Years – Doug Peacock

  • In the Shadow of the Sabertooth – Doug Peacock

Books about Human & Natural history

  • American Zion – Betsy Gaines Quammen

  • Journal of a Trapper – Osborne Russell

  • Empire of Shadows – George Black

  • The Oregon Trail – Francis Parkman

  • Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari

  • First People in a New World – David J. Meltzer