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Books like Roughing It

Explore 24 books like Roughing It by Mark Twain — a handpicked selection united by Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), West, Essays & Travelogues, and Literary Figures.

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Top related books to Roughing It

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

Deep South Four Seasons on Back Roads

Paul Theroux

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A Lady’s Captivity Among Chinese Pirates The Adventures of a Lady Traveller During The 1850s

Fanny Loviot

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Arctic Son Fulfilling the Dream

Jean Aspen

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Coming Into the Country

John McPhee

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Everything Now Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

Rosecrans Baldwin

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A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

John Muir

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The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

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Going to Extremes

Joe McGinniss

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The Great Alone Walking the Pacific Crest Trail

Tim Voors

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#10

Tip of the Iceberg My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

Mark Adams

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#11

Backcast Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska

Lou Ureneck

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#12

First Wilderness, Revised Edition My Quest in the Territory of Alaska

Sam Keith

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#13

One Man’s Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition An Alaskan Odyssey

Richard Louis Proenneke

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#14

Alaskan Wilderness Adventure Book 1

Duane Arthur Ose

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#15

Wild A Journey from Lost to Found

Cheryl Strayed

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#16

Please Turn Out the Northern Lights When You Leave

Barry H. Maughan

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#17

Wilderness A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska—Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal

Rockwell Kent

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#18

I Promise Not to Suffer A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail

Gail Storey

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#19

An Artist and a Writer Travel Highway 1 Central

Janice Stevens

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#20

The Reader’s Companion to Alaska

Alan Ryan

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#21

Turning Down the Sound Travel Escapes in Washington’s Small Towns

Foster Church

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#22

Sunset Boulevard Cruising the Heart of Los Angeles

Amy Dawes

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#23

A Republic of Rivers Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon

John A. Murray

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#24

Long Way Home On the Trail of Steinbeck’s America

Bill Barich

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If Roughing It by Mark Twain is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), West, Essays & Travelogues and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Paul Theroux, Fanny Loviot, Jean Aspen, John McPhee, and others.