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Thank you so much for playing the inagural High Country News summer reading contest with us! Stay tuned for next year's plans or get in touch with what you'd like to see. Browse all of our readers' book recommendations from the contest below.

Your #HCNSummerReading 2022 book picks

An Immense World by Ed Yong

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

PROMPT Read a book from the point of view of a nonhuman animal

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

PROMPT Buy a new release from an Indigenous or BIPOC author

Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature That Just Might Save Us All by Douglas Chadwick

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

PROMPT Read a book that teaches you about a place you know well

Bossypants by Tina Fey

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

PROMPT What is a genre you don't usually read? Read in that genre

Letting Go by Mark Gibbons

PROMPT Read a poem from an author raised in the Western U.S.

Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Michael Chiago: O'Odham Lifeways Through Art by Michael Chiago and Amadeo M. Rea

PROMPT Read a book that encourages not-knowingness and wonder

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdag Goknar

PROMPT Read a translation

The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, translated by Christina MacSweeney

PROMPT Read a translation

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

PROMPT Buy a new release from an Indigenous or BIPOC author

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

PROMPT Read a book that plays with form

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse: History & Tales of Terrible Tilly by Brian D. Ratty

PROMPT Read a book that teaches you about a place you know well

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Tom Nichols

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Explorer's Guide Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada by David T. Page

PROMPT Read a book that teaches you about a place you know well

How to Love a Country: Poems by Richard Blanco

PROMPT What is a genre you don't usually read? Read in that genre

Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home by Doug Peacock

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Atomic Farmgirl: Growing Up Right in the Wrong Place by Teri Hein

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin

PROMPT Read a book that teaches you about a place you know well

Organize to Win by Jim Britell

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Wendy Red Star: Delegation by Wendy Red Star

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves by Thomas D Peacock

PROMPT Read a book from the point of view of a nonhuman animal

I Sing: The Body: Poems about Body Image by René Saldaña, Jr.

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

How Light Makes Life: The Hidden Wonders and World-Saving Powers of Photosynthesis by Raffael Jovine

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil

PROMPT What is a genre you don't usually read? Read in that genre

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei, translated by Allan H. Barr

PROMPT Read a translation

Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis

PROMPT Read a book from the point of view of a nonhuman animal

Easter Creek by Gary Lark

PROMPT Read a poem from an author raised in the Western U.S.

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

PROMPT Buy a new release from an Indigenous or BIPOC author

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

PROMPT Read a book that encourages not-knowingness and wonder

How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book by Pete Seeger and Paul DeBois Jacobs

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by Lenny Duncan

PROMPT Read a book that teaches you about a place you know well

Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border by Octavio Solis

PROMPT What is a genre you don't usually read? Read in that genre

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

PROMPT Read a work of nonfiction that will bring you joy

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

PROMPT What is a genre you don't usually read? Read in that genre

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

PROMPT Read a book that encourages not-knowingness and wonder

The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown by Ann E. Burg

PROMPT Read a book that plays with form

Simone by Lion Feuchtwanger

PROMPT Read a translation

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest by Lesley Poling-Kempes

PROMPT Read a book that encourages not-knowingness and wonder

Bird Brother: A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife by Rodney Stotts

PROMPT Read a book that teaches you about a place you know well

Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Rising from the Plains by John McPhee

PROMPT Read a book that teaches you about a place you know well

Sagebrush Collaboration: How Harney County Defeated the Takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge by Peter Walker

PROMPT Read a book that teaches you about a place you know well

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

Requiem for America's Best Idea: National Parks in the Era of Climate Change by Michael J. Yochim

PROMPT Read a book that encourages not-knowingness and wonder

Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris

PROMPT Read a book that encourages not-knowingness and wonder

The Stone Sister by Caroline Patterson

PROMPT Read a book that teaches you about a place you know well

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

PROMPT Read a book that interrogates power

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