From the Moss & Fog Shop
We just added a shelf of books to the shop. Not a lot of them, and not the ones every gift guide already carries, but five books we would keep on our own coffee table, a set of postcards, one very good puzzle, and a small kit for people who lend books and want them back.
Last updated September 2026. Eight titles on the shelf.
Moss & Fog has spent fifteen years choosing images: the one photograph out of a portfolio, the one building out of a city. The shop grew out of that habit, and its rule has not changed since the relaunch: if we would not put something in an article, it does not go in the store. Books are the most natural fit of anything we have added, because a good book is a Moss & Fog post that keeps going for 300 pages. So we went through publishers’ lists the way we go through a photographer’s portfolio, looking for the handful that made us stop scrolling.
Here is what made the cut so far, and why. Everything below is in stock and ships from our studio. We are calling the section The Reading Room, and this page is its front door: when a new title arrives we add it here rather than writing a new post, so the shelf and the story stay in one place. Do you have a burning suggestion for our shop? Let us know here!
For anyone who has ever priced out a piece of land
We have written about remote cabins more times than we can count, and most of those posts trace back to one place.
Cabin Porn
Cabin Porn started as a private scrapbook for a group of friends building on 55 acres of forest in upstate New York, and became the largest collection of handmade shelters anywhere. This is the hardcover that came out of it, and honestly it is better than the website. Zach Klein, who also co-founded Vimeo, chose the best of the archive: A-frames, sod-roofed huts, fire lookouts, boathouses, treehouses, yurts. Noah Kalina photographed them, Steven Leckart wrote them up, and the longer stories about the people who built each one are the reason you end up reading it cover to cover instead of flipping.
It is the most flipped-through book in our studio. Fair warning: it will make you open a real estate app.
A good book is a Moss & Fog post that keeps going for 300 pages.
The only rule of the Reading Room
For the ones who actually go outside
Two books for the camping side of the site, one practical and one quiet.
How to Eat in the Woods
Bradford Angier wrote the field guides that the mid-century back-to-the-land crowd carried in their packs, and this is his most complete one, brought up to date by Jon Young. Foraging edible plants, berries and nuts, finding clean water, fishing, trapping, insects, bird eggs, building a fire, cooking without a single utensil. Written for people who go into the woods on purpose, so the tone is direct and unsentimental, which we find oddly calming.
The cover, a tree-ring dinner plate set between a fork and a knife, made us laugh out loud. It sits well next to our Campsite Pack List and the Pocket Survival Kit.
The Healing Nature of Trees
A small green hardcover about slowing down among trees. Patrice Bouchardon starts from an old idea, that time spent with a particular tree changes how we feel, and turns it into things you can actually do: walking and breathing exercises, notes on the character of different species, a little on tree oils. It is unhurried and a bit mystical, and we mean that as a compliment. If you liked our piece on the forest bathing retreat in Japan, this is the book to take on the walk.
At $9.99 it is also the easiest add-on in the shop, and the wood-grain cover looks very good on a shelf.
For the curious and the pattern-obsessed
Two books that live on the science side of Moss & Fog, where fungi and Fibonacci sequences have always been welcome.
Modern Psychedelics
A clear, judgment-free handbook for adults who are curious about psychedelics and would like reliable information rather than forum rumors. Joe Dolce, a journalist and former editor-in-chief of Details, gathers current research and much older traditions into one plainspoken guide: the history, the science, the myths and the practical questions around psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, DMT, ayahuasca, LSD, mescaline and ibogaine, with chapters on intention, microdosing and responsible use. Julie Holland, MD, writes the foreword.
We will be honest that the cover is what stopped us first, a rainbow doorway with every window thrown open. The inside earns it. This is a book of information, not a recommendation, and it is written for adults.
The Golden Ratio Coloring Book
Ninety-six pages of spirals, polyhedra, tessellations and Fibonacci sequences, drawn from the golden ratio and the other patterns mathematics keeps finding in shells, sunflowers, galaxies and cathedrals. Steve Richards’s line work is intricate enough to hold your attention for a whole evening and open enough to color with a pencil or a fine marker.
A very good present for the friend who is equally happy holding a compass or a paintbrush, and one of the few coloring books we would leave out on the coffee table.
For the Accidentally Wes Anderson fans
We have covered Wes Anderson’s world for years, from the house you can book on Airbnb to the props exhibition in London. Wally Koval’s Accidentally Wes Anderson project, which finds real places that look like his sets, is the natural next step, and two things from that project could not be left off the shelf.
Accidentally Wes Anderson Postcards
Twenty-six postcards of real places that look like film sets: symmetrical, pastel, slightly deadpan. Twenty-five are favorites from the bestselling book, and one has never been printed before. Pin them up, frame a few, or actually mail one. We keep a stack by the desk for exactly that.
Accidentally Wes Anderson Puzzle
Thirty picture-perfect places from the AWA archive, hung as a gallery wall and cut into 1,000 pieces. The box includes a foldout map that tells the story behind each picture, from the Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles to the Hotel Opera in Prague to the Arashiyama Monkey Park in Kyoto. A proper weekend project, and the finished puzzle is large enough to frame.
One more thing, in every parcel
The Reading Room bookmark
Every book that leaves the shop goes out with one of these tucked inside the cover. Front: a small riso treeline and the only reading advice we have ever felt qualified to give. Back: a miniature library checkout card, so when you lend the book (and you should) you have a record of who has it. Printed in the same letterpress style as our pack lists and field studies.
It is not for sale on its own. It comes with a book, and when the 250 are gone, they are gone.
For the generous reader
Personal Library Kit
The original Knock Knock kit for people who lend out books and would like them back. Twenty self-adhesive card pockets with matching checkout cards, a date stamp, an ink pad and a pencil, so you can run your shelf like a small public library and know exactly who has your copy of Cabin Porn. In print since 2009 for good reason.
It is the obvious companion to everything above, and the reason we put it on the same shelf.
Browse the Reading Room
Books, postcards, puzzles and paper goods, chosen the way we choose everything else here. New titles arrive a few at a time, and this page grows with them.
A note on the shop, since it should be said plainly: the Moss & Fog Shop is ours. We choose what goes in it, we buy the stock, we pack the parcels, and we make a margin on every sale, which is part of how the magazine stays free to read. Nothing on this page was sent to us for review, and no publisher paid for a place on the shelf.
