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2026 DCL Reading Challenge: Book Set in a Forest

Cozy up and get into nature—these fine tales do the exploring for you.

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  • Win a $200 gift card to Shanahan's Steakhouse in this year's random prize drawing of challenge finishers! Read any of the titles on this list, or choose your own, for your chance to win.
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  • A thriller about a lost hiker, frustrated rescuers, imagined conspiracies, and the woods along the Appalachian Trail.
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. — GAIGE, A
  • Nestled in the North Woods of Massachusetts is a house that sees lives come and go and is the heart of this beautiful sprawling novel.
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023] — MASON, D
  • In the rainy woods of the Pacific Northwest, a boy has disappeared. The Timber Creek K-9 mysteries by former Coloradan Mizushima are always crowd pleasers.
    Book, 2024New York : Crooked Lane, 2024. — MIZUSHIMA, M
  • A slender tale of magic and myth.
    Book, 2024London ; New York : Bloomsbury Circus, 2024. — CLARKE, S
  • What could make the deep, dark woods scarier? Possibly a sentient fungus.
    Book, 2025New York : Nightfire/Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — WAGNER, W
  • No better way of meeting a guy than saving him from a bear attack.
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — SHEPARD, K
  • Two damaged and very different souls navigate the supernatural threats of the Midnight Wood while surviving the more mundane problems of an aggressively bad family.
    Book, 2026New York : Dutton, 2026. — MCCOLLUM, A
  • The Arbornaut

    a Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

    Lowman, Margaret
    Towering above us is the eighth continent, an entire ecosystem that lives in the branches of the trees. One woman has explored as much of this continent as she can. This is her story.
    Book, 2021New York [New York] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. — B LOWMAN, M
  • What if the trees want revenge?
    Book, 2026[New York City] : Erewhon Books, [2026] — MICK, A
  • A cozy slow-burn fantasy that has been described as Ghibli-esque.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Orbit, 2024. — DOOCY, M
  • Proulx mines her inner Michener with this saga of a forest that seemed limitless and the foresters who felled it.
    Book, 2016New York : Scribner, 2016. — PROULX, A