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Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.05 — 82,187 ratings — published 1999
Crow Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.02 — 29,423 ratings — published 2002
Far From the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.97 — 170,068 ratings — published 1874
Hannah Coulter (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 23,555 ratings — published 2004
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.46 — 883,148 ratings — published 2022
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,951,533 ratings — published 2018
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.46 — 141,432 ratings — published 1911
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.89 — 252,106 ratings — published 1997
Shotgun Lovesongs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,032 ratings — published 2014
Cold Comfort Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.88 — 56,336 ratings — published 1932
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,927,563 ratings — published 1937
Foster (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.30 — 195,262 ratings — published 2010
The Searcher (Cal Hooper, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.81 — 173,938 ratings — published 2020
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.36 — 161,918 ratings — published 1970
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,762,957 ratings — published 2018
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.06 — 275,073 ratings — published 2016
Nightwoods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.66 — 15,301 ratings — published 2011
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.90 — 60,331 ratings — published 1913
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,947 ratings — published 2006
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.85 — 129,313 ratings — published 2004
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,020,429 ratings — published 1939
Flatlands (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.89 — 487 ratings — published 2023
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.21 — 275,593 ratings — published 2019
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.49 — 120,047 ratings — published 2015
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.66 — 107,147 ratings — published 2008
The Bridges of Madison County (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.72 — 109,544 ratings — published 1992
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,369,482 ratings — published 2001
So Long, See You Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,533 ratings — published 1980
The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.07 — 76,535 ratings — published 2024
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,259 ratings — published 2020
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,074,331 ratings — published 2021
The Lost Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.15 — 114,300 ratings — published 2018
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,309 ratings — published 1918
The Woodlanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.90 — 18,285 ratings — published 1887
On the Black Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,455 ratings — published 1982
The Tie That Binds (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,621 ratings — published 1984
The Memory of Old Jack: A Novel (Port William)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,237 ratings — published 1974
The Other Side of the Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,816 ratings — published 2006
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.85 — 308,012 ratings — published 1891
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,389 ratings — published 2015
Fourth of July Creek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,461 ratings — published 2014
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.02 — 181,861 ratings — published 2012
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,147,845 ratings — published 1908
Jayber Crow (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.40 — 23,978 ratings — published 2000
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,651 ratings — published 2011
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,095,085 ratings — published 1952
A Country Year: Living the Questions – A Woman's Memoir of Solitude, Bees, and Healing on an Ozarks Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,421 ratings — published 1983
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,350,476 ratings — published 1885
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rural-life)
avg rating 3.83 — 73,703 ratings — published 1991
Raising Hare: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rural-life)
avg rating 4.28 — 43,772 ratings — published 2025
“Whatever the reason for their choices, too many country men saw the best years of their lives melt with the ice cubes in the bottom of an empty whiskey glass.”
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“Cows are one thing, but you don't fuck with a man's dog.”
― Trophy Hunt
― Trophy Hunt
