Books like Desert solitaire

Desert solitaire by Edward Abbey reads as rugged, contemplative. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Walden

Henry David Thoreau · 1854

Both explore solitude

83% genome match

A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold · 1964

Both explore conservation & wilderness

83% genome match

My first summer in the Sierra

John Reid Muir · 1911

Both explore wilderness & conservation

60% genome match

Practice of the Wild

Gary Snyder · 1990

Both explore wilderness & environmentalism

63% genome match

The outermost house

Henry Beston · 1928

Both explore solitude & wilderness

60% genome match

The best of Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey · 1988

Both explore wilderness & environmentalism

61% genome match

Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879

Both explore solitude

59% genome match

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard · 1974

Both explore wilderness

57% genome match

Über die Einsamkeit

Johann Georg Zimmermann · 1791

Both explore solitude

59% genome match

How to Be Alone

Sara Maitland · 2013

Both explore solitude

59% genome match

Wanderlust

Rebecca Solnit · 2000

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match

The story of my heart

Richard Jefferies · 1883

Both explore solitude

57% genome match