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Deliverance
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3.89 avg rating — 33,920 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,858,469 ratings
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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4.13 avg rating — 439,790 ratings
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The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing
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4.35 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
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Old Yeller
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4.11 avg rating — 103,533 ratings
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The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4)
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4.04 avg rating — 3,937 ratings
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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Ballad, #2)
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3.98 avg rating — 5,568 ratings
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Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
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3.99 avg rating — 6,129 ratings
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She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,422 ratings
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If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (Ballad, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 3,731 ratings
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I Talk Slower Than I Think: An Antidote to Helicopter Parenting
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4.24 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Gods of Howl Mountain
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3.88 avg rating — 3,031 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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3.92 avg rating — 242,360 ratings
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver (Ballad, #5)
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3.95 avg rating — 5,530 ratings
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Sounder
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3.97 avg rating — 31,434 ratings
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A Painted House
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3.77 avg rating — 102,123 ratings
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Prodigal Summer
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4.05 avg rating — 127,768 ratings
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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4.14 avg rating — 47,709 ratings
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 262,224 ratings
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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4.25 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Slingblade
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4.45 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Where the Heart Is
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4.04 avg rating — 252,651 ratings
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When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
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4.25 avg rating — 7,490 ratings
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The Town on Beaver Creek: The Story of a Lost Kentucky Community
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3.53 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
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4.28 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Rednecks
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3.81 avg rating — 2,919 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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3.84 avg rating — 502,905 ratings
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Heaven (Casteel, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 25,787 ratings
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The Giver of Stars
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4.29 avg rating — 505,077 ratings
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One Foot in Eden
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4.13 avg rating — 6,161 ratings
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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys, The True Story
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3.73 avg rating — 1,514 ratings
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The Yearling
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4.04 avg rating — 30,482 ratings
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Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 13,501 ratings
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Driving Miss Daisy
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4.24 avg rating — 20,515 ratings
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The Kestrel Waters
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4.28 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Six O'Clock Mine Report (Pitt Poetry Series)
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4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Muddy Branch: Memories of an Eastern Kentucky Coal Camp
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine (American Made Music Series)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Eastern Kentucky Railway (KY)
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Tobacco Road
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3.71 avg rating — 15,878 ratings
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Haunted Kentucky (Haunted Series)
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3.49 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains
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3.91 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Bad Blood: A Family Murder in Marin County
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3.99 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Kentucky Straight: Stories
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4.02 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
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Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
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4.07 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Civil War in Kentucky
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3.71 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky
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3.58 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Daniel Boone
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3.84 avg rating — 236 ratings
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The Kentucky Bourbon Cookbook
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3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories
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3.80 avg rating — 2,763 ratings
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Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
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4.23 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians
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3.88 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Blood Flats
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4.36 avg rating — 39 ratings
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It's the Cookie, Mr. President
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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In the Land of Cotton
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4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Winter Calf (Maple Gap #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Drunken Crows
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Wicked Temper
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3.78 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Waters Run Wild
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4.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Storming Heaven
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4.11 avg rating — 2,181 ratings
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Ride the River (The Sacketts, #5)
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4.17 avg rating — 7,173 ratings
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The Moonshiner's Daughter
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4.20 avg rating — 23,786 ratings
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Once Upon A Time, In A Faraway Land
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Code of the Mountains
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
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3.86 avg rating — 641 ratings
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
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4.33 avg rating — 606 ratings
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To the Far Blue Mountains
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4.20 avg rating — 9,728 ratings
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The Road to Bittersweet
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4.31 avg rating — 14,298 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Casebook)
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3.89 avg rating — 11,176 ratings
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The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Dogwood
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3.98 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
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Appalachian Song
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4.44 avg rating — 7,596 ratings
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The Heart of the Mountains
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4.52 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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The Music of the Stanley Brothers
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
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4.10 avg rating — 9,676 ratings
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My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge: Laurel's Dream
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4.58 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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A Match for Emma (Mitchell's Crossroads, #3)
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4.54 avg rating — 312 ratings
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A Clock Without Hands: A Story of Abuse, Neglect, Escape and Survival in Eastern Kentucky
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Passing the Music Down
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4.17 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Bloodroot
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3.80 avg rating — 8,385 ratings
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Blue Willow: A Novel
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4.15 avg rating — 912 ratings
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I Become a Teacher: A Memoir of One-Room School Life in Eastern Kentucky
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers
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4.25 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
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4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Pickle Queen (The MacBrides, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Upheaval: Stories
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4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings
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When Venus Fell: A Novel
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3.97 avg rating — 755 ratings
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The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Promise of Jesse Woods
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4.20 avg rating — 2,320 ratings
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Mountain Passage & Other Stories of Eastern Kentucky
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The World Made Straight
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3.91 avg rating — 3,358 ratings
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Under a Cloudless Sky
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4.46 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
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Appalachia Now
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3.94 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Almost Heaven
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4.14 avg rating — 2,360 ratings
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Voices from the Mountains (Brown Thrasher Books)
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia
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4.08 avg rating — 106 ratings
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However, that said, they do fit the title Hillbilly Heaven, so I totally get why they are on the list.
Maybe the listopia discription could be expanded, so it is less location specific?