I’ve had this downloaded on audiobook for a while. Just recently, I started listening to it a bit more. @SassyRocks had mentioned it. Enjoying so far!
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I’ve been reading and re-reading this one for a while. 
Pay no attention to my dusty table. The doggies are here. 
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Loved Desert Solitaire, feeling I was right there with him.
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Amazing book! I believe Autumn or Liv first told me about it.
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I like quit lit because they all have something different to teach me for recovery. This one makes me feel powerful. 
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Added to my TBR. Thanks!
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Are these fiction or nonfiction? Look interesting.
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I know I’m too late for this trip, but try Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
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snow crash too 
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I just read Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins. It was motivating and really helped me focus on my goals.
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I love Stephen King too! His son Joe Hill is a great writer too.
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I just read Augustene Burroughs’ Dry. In one day because it was so good I couldn’t put it down.
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His wife, Tabitha, also wrote a few novels!!!
And I agree about Dry, Agustyn Burroughs is amazing…case in point…Running With Scissors.
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They are both nonfiction. Desert Solitaire is more of an autobiographical work, telling of Abbey’s deep love of the desert. He was a park ranger at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah for two seasons, and he was vocal about his dislike (you could actually say “hatred”) of the damage caused by development of the park, and the cars and tourists that new roads would bring. I found this book to be deeply philosophical and poetic, with such real imagery that you feel like you’re right there with him.
The Journey Home tells of Abbey’s move across the country, from urban areas to the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. After publishing Desert Solitaire, he became known as the “Thoreau of the West”, and he intensely disliked the title. So in The Journey Home he fully unleashes his passion on matters such as urban growth and wilderness preservation. He becomes political and even enraged about the damage done to these pristine places simply because people didn’t want to get off their butts and out of their cars to visit them.
I didn’t mean to write full-on reviews! 
But his books touched me deeply, because I live in the Southwest, I’ve hiked Arches more times than I can say, and I’ve seen the destruction Abbey was so concerned about. I also know its beauty. It’s a place where I make myself porous, and I soak in all the landscape has to offer. I highly recommend reading Ed Abbey’s books.
@Tragicfarinelli I meant to reply to you. 
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It sounds very interesting and immersive! I’ll check it out! 
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