Appalachian


A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Demon Copperhead
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
Wish You Well
Serena
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Prodigal Summer
Fair and Tender Ladies
She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3)
The Bog Wife
Where All Light Tends to Go
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
The Giver of Stars
Bloodroot
THE HOPE TRIGGER by Deborah Riley-MagnusWildwood Flowers by Julia WattsThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorCrush by Richard SikenHypnotizing Chickens by Julia Watts
Lesbian Appalachia
10 books — 7 voters
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyRocket Boys by Homer HickamThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsStorming Heaven by Denise GiardinaCrum by Lee Maynard
West Virginia
228 books — 132 voters

What Momma Left Behind by Cindy K. SprolesThe Girls of Atomic City by Denise KiernanChristy by Catherine MarshallHillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun... by Patricia H. GrahamDolly by Dolly Parton
East Tennessee
162 books — 20 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonAWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David MillerStumbling Thru by A. Digger StolzGrandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben MontgomeryBecoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
Best Appalachian Trail Books
86 books — 188 voters

Trial by Twelve by Heather Day GilbertLast Sacrifice by Richelle MeadObsidian by Jennifer L. ArmentroutOnyx by Jennifer L. ArmentroutDivine Right's Trip by Gurney Norman
West Virginia in Fiction
56 books — 30 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBanner in the Sky by James Ramsey UllmanMystery of the Fleeing Girl by Showell StylesThe Mountain of Adventure by Enid BlytonLucky To Say Goodbye by William Mowat
Mountaineering in Juvenile Fiction
67 books — 7 voters

Adriana Trigiani
“ Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself. ”
― Adriana Trigiani, Big Stone Gap

“ Call me the taker of the arduous trek, a seeker of the ultimate track ”
― Brian S Woods, BEEN: Hidden Treasures of the Appalachian Highlands

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