Elizabeth Kolbert's Reading List

"The last book I read that really blew me away was Walter Kempowski's "All for Nothing.""

""Weird and Tragic Shores," by Chauncey Loomis, is a wonderful riff on the classic Arctic explorer narrative. It deserves a much wider audience."

"I read Barry Lopez's "Arctic Dreams" while camping out on the Greenland ice sheet. That to me was pretty close to the ideal reading experience."

"There are certain works I keep coming back to: "Walden," "Desert Solitaire," Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us," Annie Dillard's "Teaching a Stone to Talk," John McPhee's "Encounters With the Archdruid" and "Annals of the Former World.""

"There are certain works I keep coming back to: "Walden," "Desert Solitaire," Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us.""

"There are certain works I keep coming back to: "Walden," "Desert Solitaire," Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us.""

"There are certain works I keep coming back to: Annie Dillard's "Teaching a Stone to Talk.""

"There are certain works I keep coming back to: John McPhee's "Encounters With the Archdruid" and "Annals of the Former World.""

"There are certain works I keep coming back to: John McPhee's "Encounters With the Archdruid" and "Annals of the Former World.""

"One of my favorite novels is Nabokov's "Pale Fire.""

"I'm also a big fan of Paul Beatty's "The Sellout.""

"I don't think there's any book I've read more times than "The Phantom Tollbooth.""