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There is nothing like reading White Fang or Call of the Wild while in the Alaska backcountry. You start reading, and with no evidence of civilization suddenly it's 1890. Also read the short story, to build a fire.
Get a copy of a book or Robert Service poetry. You have to read the Cremation of Sam McGee at least once around a campfire (our most famous poem), it's even better if you cam manage to recite it from memory.
Here's a YouTube vid of Johnny Cache reciting it.
Here's one I read years ago where the sea breaks it's back it's the story of how captain Vitas Bearing and scientist George Stellar discovered Alaska. A truly harrowing tale.
this book is the memoirs or Dick Proenneke. He lived by himself in a cabin by a lake in remote Alaska for decades. The documentary based off of it (alone in the wilderness) is excellent but I haven't actually read the memoirs myself.
Since you're in the mountains read desperate passage this is an exceptionally well researched and written account of the Donner Party, it's chilling, I read while snow camping in the Chugach, powerful stuff.
Anther great thing to read in the wild, journals of famous adventurers. The Lewis and Clark diaries, for example.
A translation of the Poetic Edda (pretend your living in Viking times)
True Grit always an enjoyable slogging through untamed wilderness read.
Hatchet by Paulson, this book is aimed at a younger audience, but it's a good book for reading when out in the woods.
I'll second song of fire and ice, Alaska is the perfect place to read it and imagine themselves the king in the north, or wandering out beyond The Wall.
Also blood meridian is another good suggestion. Adventure in the wild lands with a big element of the unknown and sleeping under the stars. By that same token I'd recommend Dead Mans Walk by McMurtry, the fist prequel to Lonesome Dove, lots of slogging through the wilderness and mountains.
Those are all I can think of at the moment.
Also a note on into the wild, I've never read it but it a lot of people up here do not like it because it's caused a lot of people to come up and emulate the guy, some of them have died or almost died. So don't tell anything to the effect of that book being your inspiration for coming to alaska.
It's not fiction, but it changed my life.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Happiness-10th-Anniversary-Handbook/dp/1594488894/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
Also, I hear they're making great advancements with micro-doses of psilocybin in regards to PTSD, you may want to look into it.
Good luck.
For sheer 'play in the virtual world' stuff, you MUST read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. You'll blaze through that, so follow it up with Stephenson's The Diamond Age
Good YA dystopic future stuff:
The Windup Girl
Station Eleven
Finally, get into Neuromancer, by William Gibson. It's a fantastic--some would say genre-defining--cyberpunk novel.
Then go devour everything Stephenson and Gibson put out there. That should get you through at least the first half of the summer. Happy reading!
To mix it up with some great poetry, I read Where the Side Walk Ends by Shel Silverstein.
Loved that book, i'm also into How To Make Sh*t Happen - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1984268945/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1984268945&linkCode=as2&tag=bitcoinmine03-21&linkId=56d2c25242488c82b2a094ef124e65d7
You could try Feeling Good, a self-help classic. First few chapters give you the most important tools you need to change your thoughts and behaviour.
In the Country of Last Things
Into the Wild
Opening Moves is what you're looking for.
https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Genocide-American-Revolution-Bleeding/dp/0300218125
The Artists' Way by Julia Cameron. A spiritual approach of being an artist.