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
Death at SeaWorld by David  KirbyBorn Free by Joy AdamsonThe Love of a Dog by Jo ProutyThe Spotted Sphinx by Joy AdamsonAll Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Adult Nonfiction Animal Books
599 books — 177 voters
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
287 books — 65 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
261 books — 224 voters

Vinyl Hayride by Paul KingsburyThe Ozarks by George Oxford MillerLoretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta LynnLost Highway by Peter GuralnickHe Walks with Me by David                      ...
Deep In Some Arbitrary Holler
283 books — 6 voters
Wildwood Flowers by Julia WattsHypnotizing Chickens by Julia WattsThe Wilding of Em's Path by Ana K. WrennCrush by Richard SikenThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Lesbian Appalachia
9 books — 5 voters

It isn’t just the US: the half of the world’s population that lives in urban areas generates more than 80 percent of global output, while 600 cities that account for just one-fifth of the global population generate more than 60 percent of global output. Urban living is also healthier for the environment as it tends to involve less travel and smaller housing. Add to that the fact that urban dwellers are ideologically different from their rural counterparts: comparatively liberal, international, t ...more
Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

Shen Congwen 沈从文
Wind and sun have tanned the growing girl's skin, her eyes resting on green hills are as clear as crystal. Nature is her mother and teacher, making her innocent, lively, and untamed as some small wild creature. ...more
Shen Congwen, Border Town

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