Rural


A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
Demon Copperhead
A Painted House
Educated
Of Mice and Men
Walk Two Moons
Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
The Grapes of Wrath
Wolf Hollow (Wolf Hollow, #1)
Winter's Bone
Wuthering Heights
One Came Home
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Big House in a Small Town by Eric J. WilliamsWould You Marry A Farmer? by Lorna SixsmithWhen Once Destroyed by Sid ShroyerPsychological Richness As Breakthrough by Hubert J.M. HermansDreamland by Sam Quinones
Rural Sociology
30 books — 4 voters
The Haunting of Room 909 by Michael   JamesOwls in the Family by Farley MowatWho Has Seen The Wind by W.O. MitchellA Prairie as Wide as the Sea by Sarah EllisIf You're Not from the Prairie... by David Bouchard
Canadian Prairies
100 books — 39 voters

We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay SproulThe Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. DanforthFar from Xanadu by Julie Anne PetersSouth of Sunshine by Dana ElmendorfDeliver Us from Evie by M.E. Kerr
Small Town LGBT YA Fiction
73 books — 41 voters
A Compromising Position by Diane Merrill WiggintonWhen Fall Breaks by Julie SolanoBookmark Days by Scot GardnerLost & Found by Nicole  WilliamsThe Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker
YA Country Teen Romance
32 books — 29 voters

Nature Calls Outside My Window, A Collection of Poems and Sto... by Suzanne  CottrellThe Love of a Dog by Jo ProutyA Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Some Great Books on Nature
264 books — 226 voters
Fever Dream by Elsie SilverNorth Country by K.A. TuckerFinding Mr. Write by Kelley ArmstrongNew Girl in Little Cove by Damhnait MonaghanThe Royals Next Door by Karina Halle
Small town Canada romances
16 books — 1 voter

Damon  Thomas
“ I spent a lot of time on the banks of the Suwannee growing up. Cookouts and swimming at Purvis Landing. There was a rope swing on an old cypress tree. Swing out into the dark brown water. The bank was lined with cypress knees. You learned to let go. We went fishing up near Log Landing Road. A remote area. More snakes than people. One Saturday we were joined by a boat. A new doctor in town. He raced up and down a short stretch of river. Blaring ZZ Top "Legs." The boat's wake crashed against the s ...more ”
― Damon Thomas, More Snakes Than People: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

Sebastián Wortys
“ English: "Laws designed for the big city destroy the rural areas." Česky: „Zákony navržené pro velkoměsto likvidují venkov. ...more ”
― Sebastián Wortys

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For fiction readers who seek the rural gay perspective. Much has been written about the big city…more
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This group is for all Authors who have a true story to tell from their own experience of Grief t…more
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A rural-reading book club organized by The Center for Rural Strategies.
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