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
Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
The Grapes of Wrath
Walk Two Moons
Wolf Hollow (Wolf Hollow, #1)
Winter's Bone
Wuthering Heights
Of Mice and Men
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
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensThe Great Alone by Kristin HannahThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Dry by Jane Harper
ATY 2020 - A Book Set in a Rural Area
420 books — 113 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

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëCharlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Best Books with Rural Settings
1,150 books — 1,030 voters
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
287 books — 64 voters

Endingen Mole by Stephen D. FerrettKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Books Set in the Countryside
157 books — 14 voters
Cider With Rosie by Laurie LeeClochemerle by Gabriel ChevallierVillage School by Miss ReadThe Country Girls by Edna O'BrienLucas by Alison Bellringer
Rustic Novels
57 books — 4 voters

Edith Wharton
...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward") ...more
Edith Wharton, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

Damon  Thomas
My great-grandfather Delmar Thomas is buried beside his wife Lula now. Mount Horeb Cemetery near Bell, FL. As a kid I fell into a fire ant mound. Delmar rescued me. I cried. Covered in bites. He just laughed. Told me that is how you learn. This is what I learned.
Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

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