Shelf
Books
He has written 21 books
(The Boston Globe ).
That figure is his published career count. The sections below are a shelf, not a numbered inventory — first titles still in print, then other titles that are out of print.
A Luddite Lexicon is his newest book.
A dictionary of words and phrases set against the technological matrix.
In print July 2026 · No Frills Buffalo Publishing · ISBN 9798998545719 · In print
A Luddite Lexicon $14.95
A dictionary of words and phrases set against the technological matrix.
Lawrence Millman - the Ambrose Bierce of his time - elevates curmudgeonliness to an art form here. Bill McKibben Thank goodness for A Luddite Lexicon, which offers a sharply humorous corrective to the madness of progress. It may even inspire you to pick up a hammer. Paul Kingsnorth A Luddite Lexicon is a total treat! A delightful send-up of where we’ve arrived in this crazy age. Robert Pyle 23 May 2025 · Austin Macauley · ISBN 9798891553019 · In print
Drinks With God $11.95
God, a celestial klutz, talks in the bars, coffee houses, and parks of New York.
2024 · Coyote Arts · In print
Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau Write for price
A memoir of preferring the out-of-doors, and of Henry David Thoreau as a childhood mentor.
Thoreau, I think, would have wanted you to carry Outsider in your hip pocket, to be mulled over in small bites while walking. Bill McKibben May 2023 · Fungi Magazine · In print
Foraging with Jeeves and Other Offbeat Mycological Excursions Write for price
Essays and stories.
25 October 2022 · Trinity University Press · ISBN 9781595349859 · In print
The Last Speaker of Bear: My Encounters in the North $18.95
The patchwork story of a life spent traveling in the north from Alaska to Siberia.
2020 · Coyote Arts · ISBN 9781587750311 · In print
Goodbye, Ice: Arctic Poems $14.95
Arctic poems.
2019 · No Frills Buffalo Publishing · ISBN 9781732419186 · In print
The Book of Origins Write for price
Rude tales from the Big Bang to the Big Now.
29 October 2019 · Princeton University Press · ISBN 9780691194721 · In print
Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore $18.95
An illustrated A–Z of mushroom lore, with more than 180 entries. One of the AIGA Top 50 Books / 50 Covers of 2021.
January 2017 · Trinity University Press · ISBN 9781595349989 · In print
At the End of the World $20
A true story of murder in the Arctic. First published by Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press; the edition still in print is from Trinity University Press.
July 2011 · Kollath-Stensaas · ISBN 9781936571017 · In print
Fascinating Fungi of New England $17
Written in non-technical language and illustrated in color, it helps identify mushrooms in the woods and in the backyard. Many of the species occur elsewhere in North America.
1990 · Houghton Mifflin · In print
Last Places: A Journey in the North Write for price
A journey in the north.
1987 · Interlink · In print
A Kayak Full of Ghosts Write for price
Eskimo folk tales, collected and retold.
1977 · Evans · In print
Our Like Will Not Be There Again Write for price
Notes from the west of Ireland.
Other titles
Out of print or otherwise hard to find new. Still part of the shelf.
2016 · Komatik Press · ISBN 9780982821916 · Out of print
I’ll Dream You Alive $13
Chants and songs from East Greenland, collected and translated by Lawrence Millman.
August 2016 · Komatik Press · ISBN 9780982821909 · Out of print
Wolverine the Trickster Write for price
Labrador Innu tales, collected and retold.
August 2013 · Komatik Press · ISBN 9780982821930 · Out of print
Giant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer $20
Travels among fungi and reindeer.
October 2012 · sunnyoutside · ISBN 9781934513378 · Out of print
Hiking to Siberia: Curious Tales of Travel and Travelers $18
Curious tales of travel and travelers.
2002 · Hobblebush Books · Out of print
Paris Was My Paramour and Other Shameless Diaries $13
Diaries.
2002 · Thunder's Mouth Press · ISBN 9781560254119 · Out of print
Lost in the Arctic: Explorations on the Edge $18
Explorations on the edge.
2000 · New Rivers Press · Out of print
Northern Latitudes $12
Prose poems.
1998 · Lumen Editions · Out of print
An Evening Among Headhunters and Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled Write for price
Reports from roads less traveled.
1992 · Capra Press · Out of print
Wolverine Creates the World Write for price
Labrador tales.
1988 · University of Missouri Press · ISBN 9780826206743 · Out of print
The Wrong Handed Man Write for price
Stories.
1986 · LoonBooks
Parliament of Ravens Write for price
Poems.
1985 · White Pine Press
Smell of Earth and Clay Write for price
East Greenland songs.
1982 · St. Martin's Press
Hero Jesse $11
A novel.
1979 · Ashplant Press
St. Kilda Amen Write for price
Poems.
Introductions and editions The Lure of the Labrador Wild — Dillon Wallace; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction Snow Man — Malcolm Waldron; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction The Jungle and the Damned — Hassoldt Davis; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction A Woman in the Polar Night — Christiane Ritter; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction True North — Elliott Merrick; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction Northern Nurse — Elliott Merrick; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction Green Mountain Farm — Elliott Merrick; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction The Last Gentleman Adventurer — Edward Beauclerk Maurice; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction The Golden Grindstone — Angus Graham; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction Mirage in the Arctic — Ejnar Mikkelsen; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction Two Against the Ice — Ejnar Mikkelsen; he brought it back into print and wrote the introduction Fascinating Fungi of New England — introduction by Gary Lincoff Last Places — 2000 edition with an introduction by Paul Theroux At the End of the World — Trinity University Press paperback, 2023; foreword by Ryan Murdock 
