Books about Nevada

NOTE: There is a separate section for Children / K-12 Level Books.

• AAA Nevada/Utah [map] by AAA Western Travel Publications
• Academic Freedom Imperiled: The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada by J. Dee Kille
• Afoot & Afield Las Vegas and Southern Nevada: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide by Brian Beffort
• Afoot & Afield Reno-Tahoe: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide by Mike White
• AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man by Lee Gilmore
• American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War [hardcover] by Carole Gallagher
• American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War [hardcover] by Carole Gallagher
• The American Southwest (Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico): History, Nature, and Fiction on CD [CD-ROM] by B&R Samizdat Express
• Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada by Ted Floyd
  
  
• Barbara F. Vucanovich: From Nevada to Congress, and Back Again by Barbara F. Vucanovich
• Basin and Range Extensional Tectonics Near the Latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada by Brian P. Wernicke
• Beatty: Frontier Oasis by Robert D. McCracken
• Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin by Richard V. Francaviglia
• Best of the Best from Nevada Cookbook: Selected Recipes from Nevada's Favorite Cookbooks by Gwen McKee
• Better Medicine: The History of the University of Nevada School of Medicine by Phyllis Cudek
• Birds of the Lahontan Valley: A Guide to Nevada's Wetland Oasis by Graham Chisholm
• Black Rock by Peter Goin
• The Black Rock Desert by William L. Fox
• Blackjack Autumn: A True Tale of Life, Death, and Splitting Tens in Winnemucca by Barry Meadow
• Boom Town Directory and Ghost Town Guide to Nevada's Aurora by Clifford Alpheus Shaw

               

• Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History In Virginia City [hardcover] by Kelly J. Dixon
• Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History In Virginia City [paperback] by Kelly J. Dixon
• Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West by Richard Misrach
• Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women by Alexa Albert
• Brothels of Nevada: Candid Views of America's Legal Sex Industry by Timothy Hursley
• Brushwork Diary: Watercolors of Early Nevada by Michael J. Brodhead
• Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Andrew J. Dunar
• Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man by Jessica Bruder
• Burning Man: Art in the Desert by A. Leo Nash
• By Whose Hand: The Murder of a Nevada Madam by Charles R. "Chuck" Barrett
  
  
• Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada by Stephen Ingram
• California-Nevada Roads Less Traveled: A Discovery Guide to Places Less Crowded by Don W. Martin
• California/Nevada Travel Vision State Map by American Map Corp.
• California/Nevada Travel Vision State Map, Pocket by American Map Corp.
• Casino Guidepost: USA Guide to over 200 Casinos--Nevada & New Jersey by Ken Schroeder
• Census of Retail Trade, Final Reports, Geographic Area Series: Nevada, 2002 by Census Bureau
• Census of Wholesale Trade, Final Reports, Geographic Area Series: Nevada, 2002 by Census Bureau
• The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men by Richard O. Davies
• Classic Rock Climbs No. 28: Red Rocks: Nevada by Todd Swain
• Combat Zoning: Military Land-Use Planning in Nevada by David Loomis
• Commonly Asked Questions about Contracts in Nevada by Ben C. Scheible
• The Complete Nevada Traveler by David Toll
• Comstock Phantoms: True Ghost Stories of Virginia City, NV [paperback] by Brian David Bruns
• Comstock Phantoms: True Ghost Stories of Virginia City, NV [paperback] by Brian David Bruns
• Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community by Ronald M. James
• Connecting the West: Historic Railroad Stops and Stage Stations in Elko County, Nevada by Shawn Hall
• The Cutting Edge: Reflections & Memories by Doctors on Medical Advances in Reno by Richard G. Pugh
  
  
• Dangerous Wildlife in California & Nevada: A Guide to Safe Encounters At Home and in the Wild by F. Lynne Bachleda
• Dempsey in Nevada by Guy Clifton
• Desert Summits: A Climbing & Hiking Guide to California & Southern Nevada (mass market paperback) by Andy Zdon
• Desert Summits: A Climbing & Hiking Guide to California & Southern Nevada (paperback) by Andy Zdon
• Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography by Les Blank
• Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began by Sally Springmeyer Zanjani
• The Divorce Seekers: A Photo Memoir of a Nevada Dude Wrangler by William L. McGee
• Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man by Holly Kreuter
  
  

                       

• Earthtones: A Nevada Album [hardcover] by Ann Ronald
• Earthtones: A Nevada Album [paperback] by Ann Ronald
• East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada by Wilbur S. Shepperson
• Ecological Communities and Processes in a Mojave Desert Ecosystem by Philip W. Rundel
• Encyclopedia of Stagecoach Robbery in Nevada by R. Michael Wilson
• Endless Nevada: A Photo Essay by John L. Smith
• Entering the Great Basin: Explore the California Trail Through Wells, Nevada by Larry Hyslop
• Eureka and Its Resources by Lambert Molinelli
  
  
• Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy by Philip L. Fradkin
• The Fiddleback: Lore of the Line Camp by Owen Ulph
• 50 Classic Hikes in Nevada: From the Ruby Mountains to Red Rock Canyon by Mike White
• Fifty Miles from Home: Riding the Long Circle on a Nevada Family Ranch by Linda Dufurrena
• 50 Years at the Craps Tables by Malcolm Jay
• Fremont Occupation of the Western Periphery: An Analysis of Ceramics from Northeastern Nevada by B. E. Malinky
• Fish and Fisheries of Nevada by Ira Rivers
  
  
• Gem Trails of Nevada by James R. Mitchell
• Geologic & Natural History Tours in the Reno Area by Becky Weimer Purkey
• The Geology and Climatology of Yucca Mountain and Vicinity, Southern Nevada and California by John S. Stuckless
• George Wingfield: Owner and Operator of Nevada by C. Elizabeth Raymond
• Geothermal Exploration With Remote Sensing from 0.45--2.5 Mum Over Brady-Desert Peak, Churchill County, Nevada by Christopher B. Kratt
• The Glory Days in Goldfield, Nevada by Sally Zanjani
• A Gold Miner's Daughter: Memoirs of a Mountain Childhood by Shyrle Padlar Hacker
• Golfing in Nevada by Daniel E. Macmillan
• Governments of the West: Governments of Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, & Utah: 2005 by Greg Michels
• Great Basin Wildflowers: A Guide to Common Wildflowers of the High Deserts of Nevada, Utah, and Oregon by Laird R. Blackwell
• Guide to Fly Fishing Pyramid Lake by Terry Barron
• Guide to Fly Fishing in Nevada by Dave Stanley
• The Guise of Deliberation: A Rhetorical Criticism of Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Site Authorization Controversy (Nevada) by Danielle Endres
  
  
• Harris Directory of Nevada Businesses: 2008 by Harris InfoSource
• Henderson (Images of America) by Jackson Armstrong-Ingram

                   

• Hiking Great Basin National Park by Bruce Grubbs
• Hiking Nevada by Bruce Grubbs
• Historic Photos of Reno by Donnelyn Curtis
• History and Humanities: Essays in Honor of Wilbur S. Shepperson by Francis X. Hartigan
• A History of Hispanics in Southern Nevada by M. L. Miranda
• The History of Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming - Part 1 1540-1888 by Hubert Howe Bancroft
• The History of the Comstock Lode: 1850-1997 by Grant H. Smith
• How to Collect on Your Bad Debt Accounts in Clark County, Nevada by Steve W. Sanson
• How to Form a Nevada Corporation by Michael Spadaccini
• How to Form a Nevada Corporation from Any State: With Forms by Mark Warda
• How to Start a Business in Nevada by Entrepreneur Press
• HR Leads and Contacts from the State of Nevada [e-doc: download: PDF] by SGA Lists
• Hydraulic Tests of Miocene Volcanic Rocks at Yucca mountain and Pahute Mesa and Implications for Groundwater Flow in the Southwest Nevada Volcanic Field, ... by Arthur L. Geldon
  
  
• Incorporate in Nevada from Any State: With Forms by Mark Warda
• Independently Generated Magma Batches in the Compositionally Zoned Ash-Flow Sheets from the Southwest Nevada Volcanic Field by Karen Sue Tefend

                   

• The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West by Michael J. Makley
• Insider Stories of the Comstock Lode and Nevada's Mining Frontier, 1859-1909: Primary Sources in American Social History, Volume 1, Volume 2 by Lawrence Berkove
• Insiders' Guide to Reno & Lake Tahoe by Jeanne Lauf Walpole
• Inspired Madness: The Gifts of Burning Man by Dale Pendell
• Integrating Visible, Near Infrared and Short Wave Infrared Hyperspectral and Multispectral Thermal Imagery for Geological Mapping at Cuprite, Nevada by Xianfeng Chen
• Isolated Carbonate Bodies Composed of Stacked Debris-Flow Deposits on a Fine-Grained Carbonate Lower Slope of Devonian Age, Antelope Peak, Elko by Peter M. Sheehan
• It Happened In Nevada by Elizabeth Gibson
  
  
• Jews In Nevada: A History by John P. Marschall
• A Journey to Lake Tahoe & Beyond by Larry Pesetski
  
  
• Lake Mead National Recreation Area: Guide to Boating by Geoffrey Schneider
• Law & Mental Health Professionals: Nevada by Krista R. Johns
• Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting the Report of the Commission to Examine and Report Upon the Sutro Tunnel, in Nevada. January 9, 1872 by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
• Letters from the Nevada Frontier: Correspondence of Tasker L. Oddie, 1898-1902 by William A. Douglass
• License to Steal: Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age [hardcover] by Jeff Burbank
• License to Steal: Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age [paperback] by Jeff Burbank
  
  
• Mammals of Nevada by E. Raymond Hall
• Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest: Nevada by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
• The Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada by Richard O. Davies
• MDR's School Directory Nevada 2005-2006 by Market Data Retrieval
• Mineral Resources of the Million Hills Wilderness Study Area, Clark County, Nevada by Joel R. Bergquist
• Minerals of Nevada by Stephen B. Castor
• Mirage-Land: Images of Nevada by Wilbur S. Shepperson
• Modern Real Estate Practice in Nevada by Fillmore W. Galaty
• Month by Month Gardening in the Deserts of Nevada by Mary Irish
• More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women by Jan Cleere

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