Books Set In Alaska: Alaskan Novels

I’ve always dreamt of exploring the far reaches of Alaska. It’s also one of the most common requests I receive for reading lists. This list of books set in Alaska is sure to transport you to Anchorage, Juneau and far, far beyond!

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Books Set In Alaska: Introduction

When researching the literature of Alaska, I happily discovered a vast range of books hailing from the largest state in the country. There are stories of survival in the wilderness, tales woven with Indian folklore and novels that explore key moments in modern history; ranging from the gold rush to the oil boom. Below you’ll find an assortment of titles; including novels and memoirs alike, which are all listed by date of publication.

Books Set In Alaska: The Shortlist

If you’re short on time and want to skip the longer list below, these are my picks for books set in Alaska:

Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Braving It by James Campbell
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

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Books Set In Alaska

1. The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack London, 1903 (YA)

Of all Jack London’s fictions none have been as popular as his dog stories. Based on London’s experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike. White Fang is the story of a wild dog’s journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian territory of Yukon at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Books Set In Alaska, Travels in Alaska by John Muir - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

2. Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915

In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in Travels in Alaska, a work he was in the process of completing at the time of his death in 1914.
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Books Set In Alaska, Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

3. Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie, 1957

This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks, becoming the first woman graduate of the University of Alaska, and marrying noted biologist Olaus J. Murie. So begins her lifelong journey in Alaska and on to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where along with her husband and others, they founded The Wilderness Society.
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Books Set In Alaska, Ice Palace by Edna Ferber - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

4. Ice Palace by Edna Ferber, 1958

Note: these is also a beautiful book by Tarjei Vesaas of the same name.
Ice Palace is Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber’s classic and mighty novel about the taming of a great northern wilderness – Alaska. Czar Kennedy came to Alaska for money and power, Thor Storm for a dream. This is the story of their struggle, over a long half-century, for the future of Alaska and the destiny of their beautiful, rebellious granddaughter, Christine, a courageous woman who must make a choice that will shape the destiny of a new generation.
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5. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George, 1972 (YA)

Alone and lost – on the North Slope of Alaska – Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as though they were her brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father’s training, she struggles day by day to survive.
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Books Set In Alaska, One Man’s Wilderness by Sam Keith - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

6. One Man’s Wilderness by Sam Keith, 1973

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man, to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed, to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin, to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available, to be not at odds with the world but content with one’s own thoughts and company. Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. He found a place, built a cabin, and stayed to become part of the country. One Man’s Wilderness is a simple account of the day-to-day explorations and activities he carried out alone, and the constant chain of nature’s events that kept him company.
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Books Set In Alaska, Coming Into the Country by John McPhee - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

7. Coming Into the Country by John McPhee, 1977

In this unforgettable and astutely observed travel account, Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee journeys into the wild frontiers and frigid climate of Alaska – exploring the diverse terrain of this Northern US state. Travelling by foot and canoe, helicopter and dog team, McPhee traverses total wilderness, urban landscape, and the depths of the bush, drawing a rich and comprehensive history of this vast land and its varied inhabitants.
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Books Set In Alaska, Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

8. Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss, 1980

A work that always has been controversial in Alaska. Yet, it is an important and highly readable classic work that captures a portrait frozen in time of a raw state in turmoil during the oil boom. McGinnis went north to find out if there was anything left of the ‘last frontier.’ He found ‘mind-bending contradictions,’ as a previous publisher put it – greed, waste, addictions, and racism, among other things, that contrasted with an awesome untamed natural beauty and an honest, open, and independent spirit of the people.
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9. Alaska by James A. Michener, 1988

In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. Michener guides us through Alaska’s fierce terrain and history, from the long-forgotten past to the bustling present. As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska’s story: its brutal origins; the American acquisition; the gold rush; the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry; the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world, Alaska traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Woman Who Married a Bear by John Straley - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

10. The Woman Who Married a Bear by John Straley, 1992

Sitka, Alaska, is a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains. In addition to honest work, there is a lot of alcohol consumed and other people’s money appropriated. Bars are loud, fights are mean. Rowdy youths party in the ancient Russian cemeteries, sitting on overturned gravestones. Sitka is hardly straight-laced, but murder is uncommon enough to be widely noted – like the Indian big-game guide killed by an ex-miner obeying voices from the earth’s center. The victim’s mother, a Tlingit Indian, summons to her nursing home a local investigator named Cecil Younger. The case is old and ostensibly solved. She wants him to investigate anyway. What he unearths is a virtual fairytale contrived to hide a primal conspiracy.
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11. A Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow, 1992

Eighteen months ago, Aleut Kate Shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage DA’s office and retreated to her father’s homestead in a national park in the interior of Alaska. But the world has a way of beating a path to her door, however remote. In the middle of one of the bitterest Decembers in recent memory ex-boss – and ex-lover – Jack Morgan shows up with an FBI agent in tow. A park ranger with powerful relatives is missing, and now the investigator Jack sent in to look for him is missing, too.
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Books Set In Alaska, Two Old Women by Velma Wallis - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

12. Two Old Women by Velma Wallis, 1993

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful.
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Books Set In Alaska, Shadows on the Koyukuk by Sidney Huntington - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

13. Shadows on the Koyukuk by Sidney Huntington, 1993

This book is more than one man’s incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enable him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told, is a testament to the durability of Alaska’s wildlands and to the strength of the people who inhabit them.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Firecracker Boys by Dan O’Neill - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

14. The Firecracker Boys by Dan O’Neill, 1994

In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However, the plan was blocked by a handful of Eskimos and biologists who succeeded in preventing massive nuclear devastation potentially far greater than that of the Chernobyl blast. The Firecracker Boys is a story of the U.S. government’s arrogance and deception, and the brave people who fought against it-launching America’s environmental movement.
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Books Set In Alaska, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

15. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, 1996

In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
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Books Set In Alaska, Raven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

16. Raven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein, 1998

In this haunting debut, Garth Stein brilliantly invokes his Native American heritage and its folklore to create an electrifying supernatural thriller. When a grieving mother returns to the remote Alaskan town where her young son drowned, she discovers that the truth about her son’s death is shrouded in legend – and buried in a terrifying wrinkle between life and death. When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable Seattle life to return to Wrangell, Alaska, it’s a wrenching return to her past.
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Books Set In Alaska, Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

17. Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban, 1999

Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. The physical distance is 1,000 miles of difficult-and often treacherous-water, which Raban navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat. But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest’s Indians and its first European explorers – between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class. Along the way, Raban offers captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss.
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Books Set In Alaska, Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

18. Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins, 2001

Please note: there is also a novel by John Green of the same name.
More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the hearts of millions of Americans. Now, Peter is a bit older, married with a family, and his journeys are different than they were. Perhaps he is looking for adventure, perhaps inspiration, perhaps new communities, perhaps unspoiled land. Certainly, he found all of this and more in Alaska, America’s last wilderness.
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Books Set In Alaska, Treasures of the North by Tracie Peterson - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

19. Treasures of the North by Tracie Peterson, 2001

Driven by desperation, Grace Hawkins must forsake the affluent comfort of her upbringing to save herself from an arranged marriage. Disillusioned by her father’s insistence, she forges a daring plan to escape the sinister hand of her intended. Peter Colton sees the Alaskan gold rush as an opportunity to establish his family’s fledgling shipping business. An unexpected partnership enables him to pursue those dreams and opens the door to an acquaintance with Grace, who has purchased passage north.
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Books Set In Alaska, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back by Corey Ford - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

20. Where the Sea Breaks Its Back by Corey Ford, 2003

Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe’s foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill-fated brig St. Peter, some of the most gruelling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration.
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Books Set In Alaska, Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

21. Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle, 2003

It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier – the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska – in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of Drop City arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia already populated by other young homesteaders. When the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over one’s head.
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Books Set In Alaska, Ada Blackjack by Jennifer Niven - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

22. Ada Blackjack by Jennifer Niven, 2003

In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman – who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband – conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Cruelest Miles by Gay Salisbury - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

23. The Cruelest Miles by Gay Salisbury, 2003

When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn’t fly in blizzard conditions – only the dogs could make it. The heroic dash of dog teams across the Alaskan wilderness to Nome inspired the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and immortalized Balto, the lead dog of the last team whose bronze statue still stands in New York City’s Central Park.
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Books Set In Alaska, Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

24. Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner, 2004

In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic clichés of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantner’s vivid and poetic prose lets readers experience Cutuk Hawcly’s life on the Alaskan plains through the character’s own words – feeling the pliers pinch of cold and hunkering in an igloo in blinding blizzards. Always in Cutuk’s mind are his father Ab, the legendary hunter Enuk Wolfglove, and the wolves – all living out lives on the unforgiving tundra. Jeered and pummeled by native children because he is white, Cutuk becomes a marginal participant in village life, caught between cultures.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

25. The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan, 2004

Please note: there is also a novel by David Mitchell of the same name.
Set against the magnificent backdrop of Alaska in the waning days of World War II, The Cloud Atlas is an enthralling debut novel, a story of adventure and awakening – and of a young soldier who came to Alaska on an extraordinary, top-secret mission – and found a world that would haunt him forever. Drifting through the night, whisper-quiet, they were the most sublime manifestations of a desperate enemy: Japanese balloon bombs. Made of rice paper, at once ingenious and deadly, they sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific, and once they started landing, the U.S. scrambled teams to find and defuse them, and then keep them secret from an already anxious public.
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Books Set In Alaska, Flight of the Goose by Lesley Thomas - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

26. Flight of the Goose by Lesley Thomas, 2005

Flight of the Goose is an award-winning novel about an Indigenous woman shaman, a draft-dodging bird scientist, and a young Inupiaq hunter caught between traditions. Their tale, woven from threads of psychological thriller, love story, eco-fiction, science and the metaphysical, is set in a remote village and the wilds of the Alaskan Arctic in a time of great cultural and ecological upheaval.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Fugitive Wife by Peter C. Brown - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

27. The Fugitive Wife by Peter C. Brown, 2006

The year is 1900 in gold-prospecting Alaska. Essie, a Midwestern farm girl fleeing from a stormy marriage, joins up with prospectors bound for Nome, where the golden sands teem with dreamers, schemers, and high rollers. When Leonard, Essie’s stubborn and volatile husband, travels north, astonishing scenes of pursuit, sacrifice, and crucial decision rise to a conclusion that is both surprising and inevitable.
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Books Set In Alaska, And She Was by Cindy Dyson - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

28. And She Was by Cindy Dyson, 2006

Sweeping across centuries and into the Aleutian Islands of Alaska’s Bering Sea, And She Was begins with a decision and a broken taboo when three starving Aleut mothers decide to take their fate into their own hands. Two hundred and fifty years later, by the time Brandy, a floundering, trashy, Latin-spewing cocktail waitress, steps ashore in the 1980s, Unalaska Island has absorbed their dark secret – a secret that is both salvation and shame.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

29. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult, 2006

Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She’s also the light of her father, Daniel’s life – a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who’s always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family – and herself – seems to be a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever?
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Books Set In Alaska, Blonde Indian by Ernestine Hayes - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

30. Blonde Indian by Ernestine Hayes, 2006

In the spring, the bear returns to the forest, the glacier returns to its source, and the salmon returns to the fresh water where it was spawned. Drawing on the special relationship that the Native people of southeastern Alaska have always had with nature, Blonde Indian is a story about returning. Told in eloquent layers that blend Native stories and metaphor with social and spiritual journeys, this enchanting memoir traces the author’s life from her difficult childhood growing up in the Tlingit community, through her adulthood, during which she lived for some time in Seattle and San Francisco, and eventually to her return home.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

31. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon, 2007

For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a ‘temporary’ safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Raven’s Gift by Don Rearden - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

32. The Raven’s Gift by Don Rearden, 2011

John Morgan and his wife can barely contain their excitement upon arriving as the new teachers in a Yup’ik Eskimo village on the windswept Alaskan tundra. But their move proves disastrous when a deadly epidemic strikes and the isolated community descends into total chaos. When outside aid fails to arrive, John’s only hope lies in escaping the snow-covered tundra and the hunger of the other survivors – he must make the thousand-mile trek across the Alaskan wilderness for help. He encounters a blind Eskimo girl and an elderly woman who need his protection, and he needs their knowledge of the terrain to survive. The harsh journey pushes him beyond his limits as he discovers a new sense of hope and the possibility of loving again.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

33. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, 2012

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart – he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone – but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter.
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Books Set In Alaska, Still Points North by Leigh Newman - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

34. Still Points North by Leigh Newman, 2013

Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning memoir that explores the extremes of belonging and exile, and the difference between how to survive and knowing how to truly live. Growing up in the wilds of Alaska, seven-year-old Leigh Newman spent her time landing silver salmon, hiking glaciers, and flying in a single-prop plane. But her life split in two when her parents unexpectedly divorced, requiring her to spend summers on the tundra with her “Great Alaskan” father and the school year in Baltimore with her more urbane mother.
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Books Set In Alaska, Winds of Skilak by Bonnie Rose Ward - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

35. Winds of Skilak by Bonnie Rose Ward, 2013

Winds of Skilak traces a young couple’s adventurous move from the suburbs of Ohio to a remote island on ill-tempered Skilak Lake. As Sam and Bonnie adapt to a life without running water, electricity and telephones, the unforgiving, desolate environment tests their courage early on. Facing sub-freezing temperatures, unfriendly bears, and cabin fever, the Wards find strength in new friends, each other, and the awe-inspiring beauty of “the last frontier.” Just when they finally settle in, a freak accident proves to be the ultimate test of their resolve. Will they be able to survive in this isolated wilderness filled with unseen dangers?
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Books Set In Alaska, Pilgrim’s Wilderness by Tom Kizzia - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

36. Pilgrim’s Wilderness by Tom Kizzia, 2013

When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his new neighbours had little idea of the trouble to come. The Pilgrim Family presented themselves as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal, with their proud piety and beautiful old-timey music, but their true story ran dark and deep. Within weeks, Papa had bulldozed a road through the mountains to the new family home at an abandoned copper mine, sparking a tense confrontation with the National Park Service and forcing his ghost town neighbours to take sides in an ever-more volatile battle over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins.
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Books Set In Alaska, Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

37. Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley, 2013

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you’re zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the town is withering.
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Books Set In Alaska, Dirt Work by Christine Byl - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

38. Dirt Work by Christine Byl, 2013

Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready for a new challenge, she joined a Glacier National Park trail crew as a seasonal “traildog” maintaining mountain trails for the millions of visitors Glacier draws every year. Byl first thought of the job as a paycheck, a summer diversion, a welcome break from “the real world” before going on to graduate school. She came to find out that work in the woods on a trail crew was more demanding, more rewarding – more real – than she ever imagined.
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Books Set In Alaska, Into Great Silence by Eva Saulitis - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

39. Into Great Silence by Eva Saulitis, 2013

Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas struggling to survive in Prince William Sound. Over the course of a decades-long career spent observing and studying these whales, and eventually coming to know them as individuals, she has, sadly, witnessed the devastation wrought by the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 – after which not a single calf has been born to the group. With the intellectual rigor of a scientist and the heart of a poet, Saulitis gives voice to these vital yet vanishing survivors and the place they are so loyal to.
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Books Set In Alaska, Hold the Dark by William Giraldi - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

40. Hold the Dark by William Giraldi, 2014

At the start of another pitiless winter, wolves have taken three children from the remote Alaskan village of Keelut, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone. Wolf expert Russell Core is called in to investigate these killings and discovers an unholy truth harbored by Medora before she disappears. When her husband returns home to discover his boy dead and his wife missing, he begins a maniacal pursuit that cuts a bloody swath across the frozen landscape. With the help of a local police detective, Core attempts to find Medora before her husband does, setting in motion a deadly chain of events.
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Books Set In Alaska, To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

41. To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey, 2016

Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska’s hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its huge reserves of gold to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy. For Forrester, the decision to accept this mission is even more difficult, as he is only recently married to Sophie, the wife he had perhaps never expected to find. Sophie is pregnant with their first child, and does not relish the prospect of a year in a military barracks while her husband embarks upon the journey of a lifetime.
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Books Set In Alaska, Braving It by James Campbell - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

42. Braving It by James Campbell, 2016

Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell’s cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds of mosquitoes, the threat of grizzlies, bathing in an ice-cold river, and hours of grueling labor peeling and hauling logs? But once there, Aidan embraced the wild.
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Books Set In Alaska, Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

43. Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers, 2016

Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancee’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: they see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilisation.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

44. The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, 2016 (YA)

In Alaska, 1970, being a teenager here isn’t like being a teenager anywhere else. Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck strikes. Alyce is trying to reconcile her desire to dance, with the life she’s always known on her family’s fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide it’s safer to run away than to stay home – until one of them ends up in terrible danger.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

45. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, 2018

Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown.
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Books Set In Alaska, The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

46. The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker, 2018

Calla Fletcher wasn’t even two when her mother took her and fled the Alaskan wild, unable to handle the isolation of the extreme, rural lifestyle, leaving behind Calla’s father, Wren Fletcher, in the process. Calla never looked back, and at twenty-six, a busy life in Toronto is all she knows. But when Calla learns that Wren’s days may be numbered, she knows that it’s time to make the long trip back to the remote frontier town where she was born.
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Books Set In Alaska, Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

47. Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp, 2018 (YA)

Best friends Corey and Kyra were inseparable in their snow-covered town of Lost Creek, Alaska. When Corey moves away, she makes Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return. Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated – and confused. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones about the town’s lost daughter, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she’s a stranger.
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Books Set In Alaska, Tip of the Iceberg by Mark Adams - alaska books, alaska novels, alaska literature, alaska fiction, alaska, alaska authors, alaska travel, best books set in alaska, popular alaska books, alaska reads, books about alaska, alaska reading challenge, alaska reading list, alaska history, alaska travel books, alaska books to read, novels set in alaska, books to read about alaska, usa books, book challenge, books and travel, travel reading list, reading list, reading challenge, books to read, books around the world, alaska culture, anchorage books, juneau books

48. Tip of the Iceberg by Mark Adams, 2018

In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organised a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury “floating university,” populated by some of America’s best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later, Alaska is still America’s most sublime wilderness, both the lure that draws a million tourists annually on Inside Passage cruises and a natural resources larder waiting to be raided. Mark Adams sets out to retrace the 1899 expedition.
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