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Explore 24 books like Walden by Henry David Thoreau — a handpicked selection united by Philosophers, Essays, Nature, and Literary Criticism.

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Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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Themes: Philosophers • Essays • Literary Criticism

The Symposium

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Themes: Philosophers • Essays • Literary Criticism

A Black Forest Walden Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando

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Themes: Philosophers • Essays • Literary Criticism

The Confessions

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Themes: Philosophers • Essays • Literary Criticism

Supplemental Volume To The Works Of Alexander Pope Containing A Considerable Addition To His Private Correspondence (1825)

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Themes: Philosophers • Essays • Literary Collections

The Storm

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Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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Mountains Piled Upon Mountains Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene

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Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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Armageddon in Retrospect

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Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022

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Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

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Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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The World-Ending Fire The Essential Wendell Berry

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Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest

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Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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

John A. Murray

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

#17

The Spiritual Emerson Essential Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

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Bird Cloud A Memoir of Place

Annie Proulx

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Criticism

#19

The Opposite of Loneliness Essays and Stories

Marina Keegan

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

#20

Dream Me Home Safely

Susan Richards Shreve

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

#21

My Life, My Body

Marge Piercy

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

#22

Naked in the Rideshare Stories of Gross Miscalculations

Rebecca Shaw

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

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The Correspondence

J. D. Daniels

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

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Socialist Realism

Trisha Low

Themes: Essays • Literary Criticism • Literary Collections

If Walden by Henry David Thoreau is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Philosophers, Essays, Nature and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Henry David Thoreau, Henry Thoreau, Louise Erdrich, Desiderius Erasmus, and others.