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Appalachian Studies Books
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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,099 ratings — published 2018
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 802 ratings — published 2019
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
by (shelved 6 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,196 ratings — published 2012
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 762 ratings — published 2017
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 801 ratings — published 2020
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,502 ratings — published 2020
Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 198 ratings — published 2009
Belonging: A Culture of Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,726 ratings — published 2004
To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 181 ratings — published
Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 435 ratings — published 2000
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 888,095 ratings — published 2022
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 252,238 ratings — published 1997
The Winter People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 267 ratings — published 1982
Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 104 ratings — published 2005
Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 103 ratings — published 2018
Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 61 ratings — published 1998
Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 214 ratings — published 2020
Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 35 ratings — published
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 513,623 ratings — published 2016
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,136 ratings — published 2018
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,984 ratings — published 1992
The Ballad of Frankie Silver (Ballad, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,571 ratings — published 1998
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 456,547 ratings — published 1998
Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,440 ratings — published 2013
Southern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 27)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2010
The Thistle and the Brier: Historical Links and Cultural Parallels Between Scotland and Appalachia (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 7)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 2003
The Roots of Appalachian Christianity: The Life and Legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns (Religion In The South)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2001
Appalachian Mountain Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.33 — 18 ratings — published 1995
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 671 ratings — published 2006
Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia)
by (shelved 2 times as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published 2005
The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 12)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 26 ratings — published 2005
The Ore Knob Mine Murders: The Crimes, the Investigation and the Trials (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies Book 33)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.23 — 22 ratings — published 2013
Seasonal Folktales: Myths, Magic & Folklore of the North, from Scotland to Scandinavia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Frontier Nursing Service: America's First Rural Nurse-Midwife Service and School (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 22)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 2008
Prodigal Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 134,039 ratings — published 2000
Murder Ballads: Illustrated Lyrics & Lore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 447 ratings — published 2025
Wake the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.43 — 2,616 ratings — published 2022
Trailing the Azimuth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 13 ratings — published
The Medicine Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.73 — 11 ratings — published
Gay Poems for Red States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 767 ratings — published 2023
Roots, Branches & Spirits: The Folkways & Witchery of Appalachia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 425 ratings — published 2021
Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 155 ratings — published 1994
The Woods All Black (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,609 ratings — published 2024
Learning to Weave: A Woman-Loving Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2021
Seeing Like a Commons: Eighty Years of Intentional Community Building and Commons Stewardship in Celo, North Carolina (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 178,068 ratings — published 2023
The Bog Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.57 — 16,540 ratings — published 2024
Success in Hill Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2012
The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia (2nd Edition): Contemporary Appalachia (Volume 3)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (Indians of the Southeast)
by (shelved 1 time as appalachian-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 359 ratings — published 1998