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Appalachia Books
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Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.46 — 844,390 ratings — published 2022
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.83 — 509,525 ratings — published 2016
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.21 — 269,863 ratings — published 2019
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,006 ratings — published 2018
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,384,182 ratings — published 2005
Prodigal Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,866 ratings — published 2000
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.07 — 450,873 ratings — published 1998
Flight Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.83 — 103,207 ratings — published 2012
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.29 — 521,031 ratings — published 2019
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.89 — 251,175 ratings — published 1997
Clay's Quilt (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,002 ratings — published 2001
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,959 ratings — published 2020
A Parchment of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,381 ratings — published 2002
Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.68 — 110,251 ratings — published 2014
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,177 ratings — published 2008
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.85 — 745 ratings — published 2017
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.83 — 787 ratings — published 2019
The Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,602 ratings — published 2012
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,033 ratings — published 2012
Fair and Tender Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,138 ratings — published 1988
If the Creek Don't Rise (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,722 ratings — published 2017
Christy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.25 — 57,521 ratings — published 1967
Storming Heaven (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,227 ratings — published 1987
The Dollmaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,866 ratings — published 1954
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.23 — 88,506 ratings — published 2022
Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,585 ratings — published 2000
Bloodroot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,429 ratings — published 2010
The Bog Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.57 — 14,958 ratings — published 2024
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
by (shelved 48 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,994 ratings — published 2012
Nightwoods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.66 — 15,207 ratings — published 2011
The Coal Tattoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,098 ratings — published 2004
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,194 ratings — published 2022
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.11 — 32,125 ratings — published 2014
Strange as This Weather Has Been (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,548 ratings — published 2007
One Foot in Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,285 ratings — published 2002
Gap Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.75 — 54,846 ratings — published 1999
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,638 ratings — published 1995
She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3)
by (shelved 40 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,451 ratings — published 1994
Above the Waterfall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.53 — 6,454 ratings — published 2014
River of Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,269 ratings — published 1940
The Caretaker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,303 ratings — published 2023
Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.34 — 430 ratings — published 2000
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,144 ratings — published 1963
The Ballad of Tom Dooley (Ballad, #9)
by (shelved 36 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,202 ratings — published 2011
Betty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.39 — 62,652 ratings — published 2020
These Silent Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.02 — 120,106 ratings — published 2021
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.12 — 6,490 ratings — published 2020
Where All Light Tends to Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,539 ratings — published 2015
Smothermoss (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,552 ratings — published 2024
The Midwife of Hope River (Hope River #1)
by (shelved 32 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,420 ratings — published 2012
“She heard it from her friend Sax's cousin that lived in Northern Virginia. Kids up there evidently had brains coming out of their ears, to the extent of needing to meet up with other kids for brain-to-brain combat.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Appalachia is often portrayed as a place separate and apart from the rest of America. Among other things, this allows Americans to absolve themselves of any accountability or relation. But Appalachia is America, even if those who live outside the region do not want to admit it.”
― The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
― The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal












