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Spirit Lake, Mount St. Helens, flowers

Books about Mount St. Helens

Children's Books

The Living Mountain

Rob Carson, Storytellers Ink, 1992

Mt. St. Helens and the Secret of the Bar-Roo Forest

Gopher to the Rescue! A Volcano Recovery Story

Terry Catasus Jennings, 2012

Volcano, The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens

Patricia Lauber, 1993

Will it Blow? Become a Volcano Detective at Mount St. Helens

Elizabeth Rusch, 2017

I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens

Lauren Tarshis, 1980

Mountain of Fire: The Daring Rescue from Mount St. Helens

Paul Thomsen, 1990

Research and Science Writing

Mount St. Helens: The Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano

Rob Carson, 2000

Potential Hazards from Future Eruptions of Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington

Dwight Raymond Crandell and Donal Ray Mullineaux, 1978

Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens

Dale, Virginia H., Swanson, Frederick J., Crisafulli, Charles M. (Eds.), 2005

Ecological Responses at Mount St. Helens: Revisited 35 Years After the 1980 Eruption

Charles M. Crisafulli, Virginia H. Dale (Eds.), 2018

Volcanic Eruptions of 1980 at Mount St. Helens: the first 100 days

Bruce L. Foxworthy and Mary Hill, 1982

Biological Research Following the 1980 Eruptions: an indexed bibliography and research abstracts (1980-1993)

Peter Frenzen, 1994

First Seventy Days: Mount St. Helens, 1980

Linda Kelso, 1980

Mount St. Helens Holocaust: A Diary for Destruction

Tom Koenninger, 1980

The 1980 Eruptions of Mount St. Helens, Washington

Peter W. Lipman and Donal Ray Mullineaux, 1981

Mount St. Helens, The Volcano Explodes!

Palmer, Leonard and KOIN TV Newsroom 6., 1980

Living with Mount St. Helens

Ronald W. Perry, and Michael K. Lindell, 1990

Earthfire: The Eruption of Mount St. Helens

Charles Rosenfeld and Robert Cooke, 1982

A Volcano Rekindled: The Renewed Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 2005-2006

David R. Sherrod, William E. Scott, and Peter H. Stauffer (eds.), 2008

Eruptions of Mount St. Helens: Past, Present, and Future

Robert Tilling, et al. 1990

After the Blast

Eric Wagner, 2020

Mount St. Helens: A Changing Landscape

Chuck Williams, 1980

Volcano Cowboys

Dick Tompson, 2002

Field Guides

Day Hiking Mount St. Helens

Craig Romano, Aaron Theisen, 2015

Roadside Geology of Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and Vicinity

Patrick Pringle, 2002

Hiking Mount St. Helens - Falcon Guides

Frank Barstad, 2004

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Gifford Pinchot National Forest

Discover Your Northwest Trail Guides, 2008

A Complete Guide to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Klindt Vielbig, 1987

Memoirs

Return to Spirit Lake

Christine Colasurdo, 2010

A Hero on Mount St. Helens

Melanie Holmes, 2019

In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens

Richard Waitt, 2015

Eruption

Steve Olson, 2015

Echoes of Fury: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens and the Lives it Changed

Frank Parchman, 2005

Truman of St. Helens, The Man and His Mountain

Shirley Rosen, 1981

Art and Poetry

Danger on Peaks, Poems

Gary Snyder, 2004

In the Red Zome

Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

Mount st. Helens: Photography by Frank Gohlke

Peter Galassi, Frank Gohlke, Simon LeVay, and Kerry Sieh, 2005

Images of America: Mount St. Helens

David A. Anderson, 2013

In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens

Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Moore, and Frederick Swanson (eds.), 2008

This list of books was selected and provided by Christine Colasurdo and Abi Groskopf. Please contact us with any omissions.