Books

Blair Braverman and Quince Mountain deliver a vibrant yearlong account of their team of dogs and adventures in mushing.

This coming-of-age novel entertains and explores human nature with an engaging narrator,

The Dutch navigator made three trips to the Arctic before perishing on the final attempt at a Northeast Passage.

Author Luc Mehl initially self-published “The Packraft Handbook” in 2021. Since then, the book has been picked up by publisher Mountaineer Books, and its audience has grown significantly.

One part charming adventure story, one part scientific reportage, “The Last Winter” by Porter Fox engages, entertains and educates.

Judy Ferguson, Alaska’s most prominent oral historian, helps deliver the stories of 13 Athabascan Iditarod mushers.

“Recess at 20 Below” by Cindy Lou Aillaud and Seth Kantner’s “A Thousand Trails Home, Living with Caribou” were picked for the Great Reads from Great Places program.

Works by Juneau’s Emily Wall and Anchorage’s Marybeth Holleman are both divergent and complementary.

Wasilla author Eric Wade’s memoir of his time at an Interior Alaska cabin, accessible only by boat, reflects a practical realism immersed in the beauty and harshness of the natural world.

Author Mary Emerick came to Sitka to try to find herself in the ocean layers that trace the island coastlines.

Richard Chiappone’s novel set in Homer is both suspenseful and lighthearted.

Her many books on the state and its history included the acclaimed “Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush.”

In “Extreme North: A Cultural History,” author Bernd Brunner examines the way our northernmost lands have developed and the way they’re perceived worldwide.

Reminiscent of outdoors periodicals from the early 20th century, this book provides humor, observation and understanding for bears.

Thirty years ago, an Eagle River teacher helped her students navigate the cycle of life as they rallied around a 10-year-old classmate facing terminal brain cancer.

Anchorage writer Nathan Shafer delivers stories that both tread on traditions from familiar mythology and subvert literary norms.

Lara Messersmith-Glavin uses single-word elements to frame writings about the experiences of her youth on a seine boat fishing outside Kodiak.

Author Olivia Hill documents her 3,000 mile journey from Kansas City to Alaska and her life in tiny Tatitlek starting in the early 1980s.

Book review: In “My Father’s Smokehouse” and “Old Woman with Berries in her Lap,” Alaskan Vivian Faith Prescott explores the traditions of the Tlingit and Sami through food, identity and a sense of place.

Whether you’ll be baking in the sun or on the run, consider adding a few of these books to your summer reading list.

The new book by Inupiaq poet Joan Naviyuk Kane pairs with her previous work “Sublingual” as a passionate rebuff to Arctic colonization.

Book review: Brendan Jones’ follow-up to his successful first novel tackles family, politics and the pandemic.

Book review: In “The Treeline,” author Ben Rawlence produces a page-turner that demonstrates how the forests may be the world’s last hope against climate change.