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To Kill a Mockingbird doesn't have a rural setting. It takes place in a small town.

I think that is true with a lot of these. Certainly The Adventures of Tom Sawyer also takes place in a small town.

To kill a mockingbird is in a town, but it has sort of a rural setting around it.

Alice in wonderland isn't a rural setting...

Also Into the Wild would be a good add :)

Gone with the Wind? Atlanta? C'mon...

A lot of Gone with the Wind takes place at Tara, though.

Yeah, I'll give you that, but I still don't think of it as a rural kind of book.

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Some of these are definitely not my idea of rural. For those of you looking for a great book, I think "Ordinary Wolves" is a much under-acknowledged book. I found it fascinating, takes place in a remote part of Alaska.

What about The Help? I don't think the citizens of Mississippi would consider their capitol city "a rural setting"!

David Copperfield? Rural setting? Not quite.

There is a discrepancy in the list description which throws voters off. Rural denotes farmed or grazed land i.e. tamed by man in some way. Wild is the opposite. *shrugs*

☯Bettie☯ wrote: "There is a discrepancy in the list description which throws voters off. Rural denotes farmed or grazed land i.e. tamed by man in some way. Wild is the opposite. *shrugs*"

Agreed, that has bugged me for donkey's years.

Rebekah wrote: "What about The Help? I don't think the citizens of Mississippi would consider their capitol city "a rural setting"!"

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Jessica, since you started the list, do you want books that have rural settings (e.g. pastures, meadows, farms, grassy fields surrounded by mountains, etc.) or truly wild - wilderness, jungle, savannah, tundra, taiga, boreal forest?

I've been voting as if you meant "rural."

Which I do not consider small town, by the way. Small towns are not the same as rural.

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It is a sorry state when you are forced to promote your own book this way, at least three times....