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Across Fishing, Topic, Sports, and Essays — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Trout Bum by John Gierach.

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Never Cry Halibut And Other Alaska Hunting and Fishing Tales

Themes: Fishing • Topic • Sports

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Kerplunk! Stories

Patrick F. McManus

Themes: Fishing • Topic • Sports

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Should the Tent Be Burning Like That? A Professional Amateur’s Guide to the Outdoors

Themes: Fishing • Topic • Sports

Backlash A Compendium of Lore and Lies (Mostly Lies) Concerning Hunting, Fishing and the Out of Doors — Galen Winter

Backlash A Compendium of Lore and Lies (Mostly Lies) Concerning Hunting, Fishing and the Out of Doors

Themes: Fishing • Topic • Sports

For a Great Fisherman Who Has Everything A Funny Fishing Book For Fishermen — Bruce Miller

For a Great Fisherman Who Has Everything A Funny Fishing Book For Fishermen

Themes: Fishing • Topic • Sports

The Doryman’s Reflection A Fisherman’s Life — Paul Molyneaux

The Doryman’s Reflection A Fisherman’s Life

Themes: Fishing • Sports • Essays

The Catch of a Lifetime Moments of Flyfishing Glory — Peter Kaminsky

The Catch of a Lifetime Moments of Flyfishing Glory

Themes: Fishing • Sports • Essays

Real Ultimate Power The Official Ninja Book — Robert Hamburger

Real Ultimate Power The Official Ninja Book

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Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Tiger, Meet My Sister… And Other Things I Probably Shouldn’t Have Said — Rick Reilly

Tiger, Meet My Sister… And Other Things I Probably Shouldn’t Have Said

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

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Jewish Jocks An Unorthodox Hall of Fame

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw — Patrick F. McManus

The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw

Patrick F. McManus

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Pickleball Is Life The Complete Guide to Feeding Your Obsession — Erin McHugh

Pickleball Is Life The Complete Guide to Feeding Your Obsession

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry — Will Blythe

To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Yankee for Life My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes — Bobby Murcer

Yankee for Life My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Stugotz’s Personal Record Book The Real Winners and Losers in Sports — Jon “Stugotz” Weiner

Stugotz’s Personal Record Book The Real Winners and Losers in Sports — Jon “Stugotz” Weiner

Jon "Stugotz" Weiner

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Have Fun Out There Or Not The Semi-Rad Running Essays — Brendan Leonard

Have Fun Out There Or Not The Semi-Rad Running Essays

Brendan Leonard

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Unplayable Lies Golf Stories — Dan Jenkins

Unplayable Lies Golf Stories

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Red and Me My Coach, My Lifelong Friend — Bill Russell

Red and Me My Coach, My Lifelong Friend

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

You Herd Me! I’ll Say It If Nobody Else Will — Colin Cowherd

You Herd Me! I’ll Say It If Nobody Else Will

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Baseball, Boys, and Bad Words — Andy Andrews

Baseball, Boys, and Bad Words

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Awesome Bill from Dawsonville My Life in NASCAR — Bill Elliott

Awesome Bill from Dawsonville My Life in NASCAR

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

A-Rod The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez — Selena Roberts

A-Rod The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

Upon Further Review The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History — Mike Pesca

Upon Further Review The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

The Wit of Cricket Second Innings — Barry Johnston

The Wit of Cricket Second Innings

Themes: Topic • Sports • Essays

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Trout Bum by John Gierach — spanning Fishing, Topic, Sports and featuring authors such as Bjorn Dihle, Patrick F. McManus, Bill Heavey, Galen Winter, and others.

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