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Books set in Alaska:


Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
White Fang by Jack London
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Alaska by James A. Michener
A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow (1st book in series)
Tisha the Story of a Young Teacher by Robert Specht
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal by Velma Wallis
Coming into the Country by John McPhee
Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
Nerd Gone Wild by Vicki Lewis Thompson
She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
Raven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
One Man's Wilderness by Sam Keith
Ordinary Wolves: A Novel by Seth Kantner
The Royal Treatment by MaryJanice Davidson (1st book in series)
Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska by Heather Lende
The Singing of the Dead by Dana Stabenow (1st book in series)
Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather Lende
PASSAGE TO JUNEAU by Jonathan Raban
White Sky, Black Ice by Stan Jones
Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins
Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie
Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska by Seth Kantner
Fire and Ice by Dana Stabenow (1st book in series)
The Final Frontiersman: Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska by Miranda Weiss
The Cruellest Miles by Gay Salisbury
The Blue Bear: Or the Short History of a Photograph by Lynn Schooler
Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch
As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport by Tom Bodett
Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss
Blindfold Game by Dana Stabenow
Heartbroke Bay by Lynn D'urso
Time Bandit by Andy Hillstrand
Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River by Sidney Huntington
Tales from the Dena: Indian Stories by Frederica De Laguna
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears by Nick Jans
Death in the Grizzly Maze: The Timothy Treadwell Story by Mike Lapinski
The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
Travels in Alaska by John Muir
The Woman Who Married a Bear by John Straley
Village of the Ghost Bears by Stan Jones
Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story by Libby Riddles
Shaman Pass by Stan Jones
The Kids from Nowhere by George Guthridge
Sitka by Louis L'Amour
Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway by Kirkpatrick Hill
Out Of This World by Jill Shalvis
The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison
Harper's Bride by Alexis Harrington
I Do, I Do, I Do by Maggie Osborne
Water Sky by Jean Craighead George
The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
A Long Trek Home: 4000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski by Erin Mckittrick
Burning Daylight by Jack London
Guardian by Joe Haldeman
The Great Death by John E. Smelcer
Down River by Karen Harper
Shades of Midnight by Lara Adrian
Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong
On Thin Ice by Cherry Adair
Manhunt by Janet Evanovich
Summer of the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson (1st book in series)
Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun by Velma Wallis
The Fugitive Wife: A Novel by Peter C. Brown
To Build a Fire by Jack London
And She Was: A Novel by Cindy Dyson
Good Time Girls : Of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush by Lael Morgan
The Stars the Snow the Fire by John Meade Haines
Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse
The Snow Child: A Novel by Eowyn Ivey
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
The Snow Bride by Debbie Macomber
Alaska by Sue Saliba
Forever on the Mountain by James M. Tabor
Arctic Shift by Lissa Matthews (1st book in series)
Lost Voices by Sarah Porter
Lucy the Giant by Sherri L. Smith
With This Ring, I Thee Dread by Ruth Ann Nordin
[[book:Midnight Sons Volume I: Brides for Brothers & The Marriage Risk|7068855]] by Debbie Macomber (1st book in series)
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Cover Me by Catherine Mann
Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession by Spike Walker
Dance With the Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dawn's Prelude by Tracie Peterson (series)

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The Royal Mess by MaryJanice Davidson and the previous two in this series, The Royal Treatment and The Royal Pain, are set in an alternate-history Alaska. They are fun, quick-read romances.

The Big Both Ways by John Straley

by H. Paul Jeffers

byBrian Garfield

Two excellent books with a military connection about Alaska. The Thousand-Mile War is the definitive book about the Aleutian Islands Campaign in WWII, and the only occupation of US territory by Japanese forces; and Burning Cold is about the burning and sinking of the cruise ship Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska in the early 80s, and the US Coast Guard's miraculous rescue of over three hundred passengers without any loss of life - a rescue I was involved in while serving in the CG at CGAirSta Kodiak, AK.

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My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson
Baby It's Cold Outside by Addison Fox (1st book of Alaskan Nights series)
No Safe Haven by Kimberley Woodhouse
On Ice by J.D. Faver
The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 by Douglas Brinkley
North of Heartbreak by Julie Rowe
Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories by Melinda Moustakis
The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska by Colleen Mondor
Fearless in Alaska by Izzy Ballard
Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska's WWII Invasion: The Untold Story of Alaska's WWII Invasion

More books set in Alaska:



After the End by Amy Plum
Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land by Walter R. Borneman
Alaska Traveler: Dispatches from America's Last Frontier by Dana Stabenow
Alaska Twilight by Colleen Coble
Arctic Schoolteacher: Kulukak, Alaska, 1931-1933 by Abbie Morgan Madenwald
Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill
Caribou Island by David Vann
Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley
Impact by Tiffinie Helmer (1st book of Wild Men of Alaska series)
The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush by Pierre Berton
My One Square Inch of Alaska by Sharon Short
North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey by Shannon Huffman Polson
Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia
The Raven's Gift by Don Rearden
A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece by Hannah Breece
Touching the Clouds by Bonnie Leon (1st book in Alaskan Skies series)
Starry Night by Debbie Macomber
Still Points North: Surviving the World's Greatest Alaskan Childhood by Leigh Newman
Submerged by Dani Pettrey (1st book in Alaskan Courage series)
Treasures of the North by Tracie Peterson (1st book in the Yukon Quest series)
Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart
The Wind Is Not a River by Brian Payton
A Wolf Called Romeo by Nick Jans

More books set in Alaska:



Against the Wild by Kat Martin (1st book in The Brodies of Alaska series)
Alaska Bound: One Man's Dream…One Woman's Nightmare! by Tammy Jones
Alaskan Fire by Sara King (1st book in Guardians of the First Realm series)
Amazing Grace by Megan Shull
Arctic Daughter by Jean Aspen
Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes
Call of the Wild: My Escape to Alaska by Guy Grieve
Denali Skies by Danielle Rohr
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak by Andy Hall
Diamond Willow by Helen Frost
Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
The Firecracker Boys by Dan O'Neill
The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
Has to Be Love by Jolene Perry
Highliners by William B. McCloskey (1st book in Highliners series)
In a Far Country by John Taliaferro
The Last Run by Todd Lewan
Love Finds You in Glacier Bay, Alaska by Tricia Goyer
Memoirs of a Gas Station: A Delightfully Awkward Journey Across the Alaskan Tundra
On the Edge of Nowhere by James Huntington
Point of Direction by Rachel Weaver
Raising Ourselves: A Gwitch'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River by Velma Wallis
The Serpents Trail by Sue Henry
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
The Way Winter Comes by Sherry Simpson
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

Stalking Red

Red, Brenda Levere has been on her own for a very long time. PR, Paul Revere Jones comes from a big family, part Alaska Native and part white. When Red moves into his apartment complex, PR begins the hunt of a lifetime. He wants the prickly woman. Red throws a big glitch in his plans by getting involved with another man. PR continues his friendly interaction with Red as he bides his time. Reardon dumps Red and PR happily deepens their friendship. But Red is shy having been burned before. It is one tough hunt. Can he get her to the altar or will Red keep him at arms length as a friend with benefits? Meanwhile things in the Copper Basin are becoming increasingly worse for the great-grand parents as incidents of vandalism increase. (less)

Cold Spell by Deb Vanasse
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

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Two Cabins, One Lake by Shaye Marlow

Proximity Factor

I read a lot about Alaska. The books that I have read are too numerous to list here. For historical non-fiction, WWII offers many publications related to the battles for Attu and the Air Force attacks on the Kuril Islands. Dana Stabenow has an entire series of mysteries involving a Native American detective named Kate Shugak. There is so much to read.

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp.
Sucktown, Alaska by Craig Dirkes.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah.
North to the Future: An Offline Adventure through the Changing Wilds of Alaska by Ben Weissenbach.
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman(non-fiction)

Proximity Factor

Meet Cynthia Austen, a brilliant 32-year-old PhD neurologist whose career has taken her to the forefront of high-security scientific experimentation within the U.S. Pentagon.

Recently promoted to scientific project manager to report and evaluate DARPA's most classified projects, she finds herself thrust into the intrigue and cutting-edge world of Arctic scientific research.

Assigned to evaluate a mysterious project gone wrong in the remote community of Gakona, Alaska, Cynthia must quickly evolve her strategy and tactics, and transform herself from a diligent professional—into a force to be reckoned with.