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Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.46 — 889,287 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 — 513,731 ratings — published 2016
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 166 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.21 — 276,491 ratings — published 2019
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,102 ratings — published 2018
Prodigal Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.06 — 134,189 ratings — published 2000
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,404,391 ratings — published 2005
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.07 — 456,739 ratings — published 1998
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.29 — 532,482 ratings — published 2019
Flight Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.83 — 104,335 ratings — published 2012
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.89 — 252,274 ratings — published 1997
Clay's Quilt (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,144 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 — 9,191 ratings — published 2020
A Parchment of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,498 ratings — published 2002
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.85 — 762 ratings — published 2017
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,352 ratings — published 2008
Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.69 — 111,525 ratings — published 2014
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.83 — 803 ratings — published 2019
The Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,687 ratings — published 2012
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,237 ratings — published 2012
If the Creek Don't Rise (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.01 — 27,239 ratings — published 2017
Storming Heaven (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,260 ratings — published 1987
Fair and Tender Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,205 ratings — published 1988
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.23 — 91,553 ratings — published 2022
Christy: A Historical Novel of Faith, Love, and Courage in the Smoky Mountains (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.26 — 58,924 ratings — published 1967
The Dollmaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,928 ratings — published 1954
Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,975 ratings — published 2000
Bloodroot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,463 ratings — published 2010
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,281 ratings — published 2022
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
by (shelved 47 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,199 ratings — published 2012
Nightwoods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.66 — 15,313 ratings — published 2011
The Bog Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.57 — 16,589 ratings — published 2024
The Coal Tattoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,174 ratings — published 2004
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 — 33,035 ratings — published 2014
Strange as This Weather Has Been (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,561 ratings — published 2007
One Foot in Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,406 ratings — published 2002
Gap Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.75 — 55,049 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 — 4,721 ratings — published 1995
Above the Waterfall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.53 — 6,499 ratings — published 2014
She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3)
by (shelved 40 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,471 ratings — published 1994
River of Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,291 ratings — published 1940
These Silent Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.02 — 124,008 ratings — published 2021
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,167 ratings — published 1963
The Caretaker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,723 ratings — published 2023
The Ballad of Tom Dooley (Ballad, #9)
by (shelved 37 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,230 ratings — published 2011
Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.35 — 435 ratings — published 2000
Betty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as appalachia)
avg rating 4.39 — 65,765 ratings — published 2020
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.12 — 6,543 ratings — published 2020
Smothermoss (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,873 ratings — published 2024
Where All Light Tends to Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,672 ratings — published 2015
The Witch's Orchard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as appalachia)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,365 ratings — published 2025
“Grandma saw our red dog road as a place where I might fall down and get hurt.
But I knew if I did I'd get back up.
And that red dog road would lead me to every place I would ever go in my lifetime.”
― Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
But I knew if I did I'd get back up.
And that red dog road would lead me to every place I would ever go in my lifetime.”
― Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
“He seems to be giving his people a (mostly) gently worded lecture on their lack of willingness to work even when it appears almost pointless to do so. For that reason, the book should have been titled Hillbilly Reprimand, because Vance doesn't want to mourn his hillbilly family. He wants to make them good proletarians like they allegedly were in the twentieth century.”
― Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
― Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
