Rural


A Painted House
Demon Copperhead
Educated
The Grapes of Wrath
Winter's Bone
Wuthering Heights
Of Mice and Men
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
Foster
Tierra de mujeres: Una mirada íntima y familiar al mundo rural
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockThe Road by Cormac McCarthyWinter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Regional Grit Lit
121 books — 88 voters

Jillaroo by Rachael TreasureJillaroo from Jacaranda by Mandy MagroThe Farmer's Wife by Rachael TreasureJilted by Rachael JohnsA Swag of Memories by Brian Keith Taylor
BEST AUSSIE RURAL ROMANCE BANGERS
52 books — 1 voter
Death at SeaWorld by David  KirbyBorn Free by Joy AdamsonThe Spotted Sphinx by Joy AdamsonAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotMarley and Me by John Grogan
Adult Nonfiction Animal Books
595 books — 153 voters

Miss Rumphius by Barbara CooneyPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. AuelInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Books Set in the Wilderness
137 books — 7 voters
The Hike by Alison FarrellThe Little House by Virginia Lee BurtonThe Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria HoustonThe First Strawberries by Joseph BruchacMufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
Rural Picturebooks
110 books — 7 voters

As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.
John A. Hostetler, Amish Society

Bruce Catton
They lived in rural Michigan in the pre-automobile age, and for the most part they had never been fifty miles away from the farm or the dusty village streets; yet once, ages ago, they had been everywhere and had seen everything, and nothing that happened to them thereafter meant anything much. All that was real had taken place when they were young; everything after that had simply been a process of waiting for death, which did not frighten them much -- they had seen it inflicted in the worst pos ...more
Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army

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A rural-reading book club organized by The Center for Rural Strategies.
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