California – John Mack Faragher

About This Life – Barry Lopez

Basin and Range – John McPhee

The Talking Cure – Paula Marantz Cohen

Desert Notebooks – Ben Ehrenreich

Malloy – Samuel Beckett

The Glass Hotel – Emily St.John Mandel

The Sea of Tranquility – Emily St.John Mandel

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton

There There – Tommy Orange

Madness, Rack, and Honey – Mary Ruffle

The Brutal Telling – Louise Penny

The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien

At Home On This Earth: two centuries of U.S. women’s nature writing – Anderson & Edwards, eds.

The Emergency is Curiosity – Christie George

Lucy By The Sea – Elizabeth Strout

Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald

Jack – Marilynne Robinson