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Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Joyce Carol Oates
4.0

What can I say? I have a soft spot for environmental nonfiction that yanks at my heartstrings. Some people find "Walden" to be insufferable, but I prefer to think of it as more poetry than prose. Thoreau's writing is so crisp and tight that I can almost see him scrawling this out in his little cabin as I read it.