- River-Horse by William Least-Heat Moon Heat-Moon, known for the classic road book Blue Highways, takes a boat east-to-west all the way across the continent. Rivers are a unique view into society, and ourselves.
- Down the River by Edward Abbey In my view a superior book to Desert Solitaire, that captures Abbey's adventurousness, studiousness and iconoclasm.
- The Exploration of the Colorado River by John Wesley Powell If you ever run the Green through Dinosaur National Monument, take this book and read it out loud in camp.
- Life On the Mississippi by Mark Twain Not a whitewater book, but a humorous account of how the river rules.
- Nature Noir by Jordan Fisher Smith The inside and often dark story of foothills society, and the irony of the preservation of the land behind the now-defunct Auburn Dam.
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