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
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensIn a Sunburned Country by Bill  BrysonThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonThe Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by DuBose Heyward
City vs. Country
750 books — 39 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

I Malavoglia by Giovanni VergaIl sogno di Perla by Francesca MarconiCristo si è fermato a Eboli by Carlo LeviFontamara by Ignazio SiloneL'isola di Arturo by Elsa Morante
Italia Rurale / Rural Italian Fiction
22 books — 10 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 — 227 voters

Steven Magee
Remote rural areas have always been the best places to live during war.
Steven Magee

Damon  Thomas
Once I went to buy a turtle at the Chiefland flea market. They said turtles were only legal to buy for "educational purposes." Before I could buy I was asked to write "For Education" on a piece of paper. With the official paperwork completed we headed behind the booth to get the turtle. There was a capybara snoozing in a kid's wading pool. The capybara was not for sale. ...more
Damon Thomas, More Snakes Than People: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

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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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