Paring down - Back to basics

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Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,985 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,864 ratings
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Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness 4.16 avg rating — 2,952 ratings
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The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I kept the patio, lost the lawn, and fed my family for a year
The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I kept the patio, lost the lawn, and fed my family for a year 3.79 avg rating — 1,409 ratings
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Five People You Meet in Heaven 4.01 avg rating — 781,756 ratings
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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! 4.14 avg rating — 5,633 ratings
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating — 29,054 ratings
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Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy 3.98 avg rating — 39,149 ratings
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Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land
Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land 3.72 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 96,011 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,586 ratings
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Natural Living: The 21st Century Guide to a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle
Natural Living: The 21st Century Guide to a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love 4.08 avg rating — 18,038 ratings
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Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 962 ratings
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The Portable Emerson
The Portable Emerson 4.24 avg rating — 480 ratings
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The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays 4.17 avg rating — 790 ratings
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365 Tao: Daily Meditations
365 Tao: Daily Meditations 4.11 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives
Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives 4.14 avg rating — 4,188 ratings
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Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh
Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh 4.55 avg rating — 1,058 ratings
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Country Wisdom & Know-How
Country Wisdom & Know-How 4.34 avg rating — 981 ratings
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The Heirloom Life Gardener: The Baker Creek Way of Growing Your Own Food Easily and Naturally
The Heirloom Life Gardener: The Baker Creek Way of Growing Your Own Food Easily and Naturally 4.07 avg rating — 564 ratings
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The Spirit of the Quakers
The Spirit of the Quakers 4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings
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A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm
A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm 4.18 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology 3.62 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
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Fields That Dream: Journey to the Roots of Our Food
Fields That Dream: Journey to the Roots of Our Food 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild
Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild 3.48 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation 3.99 avg rating — 6,543 ratings
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Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm
Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm 3.79 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home
Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home 3.94 avg rating — 1,501 ratings
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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills 4.19 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
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Maiden Voyage
Maiden Voyage 4.18 avg rating — 3,268 ratings
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Waking Up (Week Inside¹Series)
Waking Up (Week Inside¹Series) 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World 4.28 avg rating — 7,930 ratings
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Stronger Than Dirt: How One Urban Couple Grew a Business, a Family, and a New Way of Life from the Ground Up
Stronger Than Dirt: How One Urban Couple Grew a Business, a Family, and a New Way of Life from the Ground Up 3.69 avg rating — 49 ratings
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This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm
This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm 3.78 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Touching Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear, #1)
Touching Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 35,650 ratings
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Meanwhile Farm
Meanwhile Farm 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health: More Than 200 New Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes for Delicious and Nutrient-Rich Dishes
The Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health: More Than 200 New Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes for Delicious and Nutrient-Rich Dishes 4.18 avg rating — 467 ratings
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The Tao of Inner Peace
The Tao of Inner Peace 4.11 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One
New and Selected Poems, Volume One 4.54 avg rating — 14,329 ratings
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Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea 4.14 avg rating — 20,356 ratings
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of the Dead 4.16 avg rating — 10,344 ratings
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Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life 4.31 avg rating — 45,720 ratings
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Self-Reliance and Other Essays 4.12 avg rating — 20,166 ratings
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Nature and Selected Essays
Nature and Selected Essays 4.11 avg rating — 2,267 ratings
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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream 3.68 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
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It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (NotSo) Simple Life
It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (NotSo) Simple Life 3.86 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn
Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn 3.85 avg rating — 2,067 ratings
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EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture
EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture 3.49 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
by: Doug Fine
3.48 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day 4.12 avg rating — 11,527 ratings
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Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 847,023 ratings
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The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet
The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet 3.83 avg rating — 9,888 ratings
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Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook
Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook 3.84 avg rating — 32,712 ratings
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The Shack
The Shack 3.84 avg rating — 682,871 ratings
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual 3.99 avg rating — 48,352 ratings
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The Lorax
The Lorax
by: Dr. Seuss
4.35 avg rating — 363,724 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto 4.07 avg rating — 118,658 ratings
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We Made a Garden
We Made a Garden 3.82 avg rating — 404 ratings
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A Country Year: Living the Questions
A Country Year: Living the Questions 4.15 avg rating — 4,073 ratings