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Steven Rinella books: every book Steven Rinella wrote and recommended
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Steven Rinella appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Steven Rinella
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American Buffalo
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Outdoor Kids in an Inside World
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MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival
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Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars
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MeatEater Outdoor Cookbook
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MeatEater's American History
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The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook
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The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game
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The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine
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Meat Eater
Steven Rinella’s most recommended books
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook by Donald Angus Cameron, Judith Jones
- Death in the barren ground by Edgar Vernon Christian
- Great Plains by Ian Frazier
- Journal of a trapper by Osborne Russell
- Sport Fish of the Gulf of Mexico by Vic Dunaway
- Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt
- Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
Steven Rinella is an American outdoorsman, conservationist, writer, and television personality known for translating the hunting and fishing lifestyle to a wide variety of audiences. Appearing on programs like The Joe Rogan Experience and This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, Rinella has recommended and discussed several historical accounts, survival stories, and field guides. He recommended Edgar Vernon Christian's Death in the Barren Ground, a true survival story about men starving in the Arctic, and recommended Osborne Russell's Journal of a trapper while talking about early historical trappers. Rinella also highlighted Vic Dunaway's series of fisheries guidebooks for the Gulf Coast, Pacific Ocean, and Atlantic Ocean, praising their food quality sections. Furthermore, he held up Ian Frazier's Great Plains as one of the finest books ever written about the region. During his podcast appearances, Rinella additionally discussed reading Bryan Sykes's The Seven Daughters of Eve when exploring anthropology and human genetics, mentioned his childhood reading of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and talked about James Willard Schultz's Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot.
Books recommended by Steven Rinella
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A Sand County Almanac
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold is a foundational text in environmental literature, offering a collection of essays that reflect on humanity's relationship with nature and the history of wildlife conservation.
Discussed“his most famous work is sand county almanac right which is a which was basically a collection of things that he had written during the sort of dark ages of american wildlife which is around the 1920s”
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic American novel depicting a young boy's journey down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave, confronting society and morality.
Discussed“when i was in i guess it was uh seventh grade sixth or seventh grade i really got into tom sawyer tom sawyer and huckleberry finn yeah i read all his books and uh they were always chewing tobacco so i bought some and uh i tried and i got very sick just like drool pouring out of my mouth”
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a classic American novel depicting the mischievous exploits of a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
Discussed“when i was in i guess it was uh seventh grade sixth or seventh grade i really got into tom sawyer tom sawyer and huckleberry finn yeah i read all his books and uh they were always chewing tobacco so i bought some and uh i tried and i got very sick just like drool pouring out of my mouth”
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The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook
Discussed“you know i found out about eating it because my brother found out about eating it because he has this old cookbook called the ll bean it's like the yellow bean wild game cookbook um by a guy named angus first name of angus if i remember right and he's got a shank like he's got a shank recipe in”
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Death in the barren ground
Death in the Barren Ground by Edgar Vernon Christian is a tragic true survival account detailing the harrowing experiences of men facing starvation in the Arctic wilderness.
Recommended“he gives you this book death in the baron ground it's about these guys in the 20s these three in the 20s that go up on this Theon river”
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Great Plains
Great Plains is a non-fiction book by Ian Frazier that explores the geography, history, culture, and ecology of the vast North American region known as the Great Plains.
Recommended“one of the books I hold up is just like one of the in my opinion one of the finest books ever written is his book Great Planes Great Planes which is about the great PLS”
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Journal of a trapper
Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell is a historical memoir written by a fur trapper who spent the late 1830s and early 1840s living and working in the Rocky Mountain region, providing invaluable firsthand documentation of the American frontier.
Recommended“read russell osborne's journal of a trapper what year was that from he was in the late 30s early 40s”
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Sport Fish of the Gulf of Mexico
Sport Fish of the Gulf of Mexico by Vic Dunaway is a detailed fisheries guidebook designed to help anglers identify and understand marine life.
Recommended“you know what's funny about great whites is there's a guy there's a writer i love and he does all these fisheries guidebooks named vic dunaway i don't know if he's dead or alive but i got all of his books He's got like gulf coast pacific ocean atlantic coast um he does these books like it's like all the”
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American Buffalo
American Buffalo by Steven Rinella is a compelling narrative account that chronicles the author's journey to secure a hunting tag in Alaska and harvest an American bison.
Discussed“yeah you know when I did my book my book American Buffalo I member I had to lose a hundred pages which was hard to do”
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Black Elk Speaks
Black Elk Speaks by John G.
Discussed“maybe it was uh black elk black elk speaks yeah”
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C.
Discussed“yeah like some of the depictions of the tortures from that and empires of the summer moon”
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Lone Survivors
Discussed“because I was reading this book about human history called Lone Survivor not Lone Survivor that's the the seal story yeah it's something like lone survivors it's by a geneticist a British geneticist the hell's name anyways something like that”
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My Life With The Eskimo
Discussed“uh V jalmer Stephenson and he would in his uh he has a he had a book my life with the Eskimo”
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No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a gripping modern Western thriller following a hunter who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and a relentless, calculating killer named Anton Chigurh.
Discussed“you know in the end of no country for old men yeah”
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Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot
Discussed“no sounds like I'm reading a book called um Rising Wolf the white Blackfoot what is that it's I first uh oh it's a book about this kid it's a book about this kid in the 1700s that uh I'm sorry 1800s that came out with the Hudson Bay Company up into the vicinity of Calgary and then was assigned”
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The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game
The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game by Steven Rinella is a comprehensive, multi-volume manual designed to help outdoor enthusiasts harvest, process, and prepare wild game.
Discussed“when we did the complete guide to hunting butchering cooking wild game it came out at 700 pages”
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" imagines a totalitarian society where individual liberties are stripped away and women's bodies are heavily controlled.
Discussed“you know the writer Margaret Margaret Atwood I've heard the name okay she has a book called The handmaid's Tale yes this dystopian”
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The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine
The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine by Steven Rinella is a memoir and culinary adventure that chronicles the author's quest to source and prepare a gourmet multi-course meal using wild game and foraged ingredients.
Discussed“eventually I signed a development agreement after I wrote my first book um scavengers gu to O Cuisine”
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes is a popular science book that introduces readers to human history and genetics through the analysis of mitochondrial DNA.
Discussed“I know that there is a I was reading a book I read a lot of anthropology books. I can't remember if it was the seven daughters of Eve. I was reading a book about human history and in it they were pointing to some controversy around this question.”
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
Discussed“i think there's his writer jeff jeff dyer he wrote this book yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it jeff dyer he was a humorist”
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Questions about Steven Rinella’s book recommendations
What book does Steven Rinella recommend most?
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. Steven Rinella discussed it in 2 episodes.
How many books has Steven Rinella recommended on podcasts?
We have found 20 books Steven Rinella recommended or discussed, across 12 episodes of 3 podcasts. Ad reads and passing mentions are not counted.
What books are on Steven Rinella's reading list?
The books Steven Rinella has recommended most on podcasts are A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook by Donald Angus Cameron, Judith Jones and Death in the barren ground by Edgar Vernon Christian. The full book list below has all 20.
What books has Steven Rinella written?
American Buffalo (2008), Meat Eater (2013), The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game (2015), The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (2015), The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook (2018), MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival (2020), Outdoor Kids in an Inside World (2022), Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars (2023), MeatEater Outdoor Cookbook (2024) and MeatEater's American History (2025).
What did Steven Rinella recommend on The Joe Rogan Experience?
A Sand County Almanac, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The adventures of Tom Sawyer, among 19 books in all.
What is the latest book Steven Rinella recommended?
The Seven Daughters of Eve, discussed on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von (2025-09-15).
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Appearances
Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
“right now uh we're coming out with one called me eaters American history the mountain men and it covers that like John Jacob Aster era of the Beaver trade”
“for the last couple of years i've been working on a a book you know like this is the thing i thought i'd never do i used to be annoyed by people who thought about their kids before i had kids but i have a book that i just finished called uh outdoor kids inside world it's about you know”
“uh if you go to you know wherever you could buy books go to apple books or whatever um and get the american buffalo audio version because you finally do the yeah i do that”
“go to apple books or whatever um and get the american buffalo audio version”
“mainly right now go get meat eaters campfire stories close calls and then also we're doing a fundraiser right now”
“i think what one one you know in naming the book outdoor kids in an inside world i was like promo”
“in outdoor kids in an inside world”
“i'd love if you mentioned it i'm very proud of it meat-eater guide to wilderness skills and survival um this is your uh how many you guys have written”
“then did a wild game book a wild game cookbook and uh”
“When we did the complete guide to hunting butchering cooking wild game it came out at 700 pages”
“and then in doing this this cookbook the mediator fish-and-game cookbook is what it's called”
“how to actually prepare beavertail Mountain Man style in the mediator fish-and-game cookbook”
“so it's called the meter fishing game cookbook recipes and techniques for every hunter and angler”
“oh no you know my first book um which never had a chance in the real world scavengers guide to O cuisine it came out a long time ago but I got the rights to it back right and I published it digitally as a scavengers guide”