Best Books Set in Appalachia

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The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story 4.34 avg rating — 3,688 ratings
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The Last Ballad
The Last Ballad 3.87 avg rating — 8,262 ratings
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The Beatinest Boy
The Beatinest Boy 4.20 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Fireflies in December (Calloway Summers #1)
Fireflies in December (Calloway Summers #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,689 ratings
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Passing the Music Down
Passing the Music Down 4.17 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Where All Light Tends to Go
Where All Light Tends to Go
by: David Joy
3.78 avg rating — 10,060 ratings
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia 3.93 avg rating — 4,445 ratings
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Feather Crowns
Feather Crowns 3.69 avg rating — 850 ratings
109.
The Road from Gap Creek
The Road from Gap Creek 3.78 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
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If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him... (Elizabeth MacPherson #8)
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him... (Elizabeth MacPherson #8) 3.83 avg rating — 2,452 ratings
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Signs in the Blood (Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mystery, #1)
Signs in the Blood (Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mystery, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 488 ratings
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The French Broad (Rivers of America, #50)
The French Broad (Rivers of America, #50) 3.95 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Mary On Horseback: Three Mountain Stories
Mary On Horseback: Three Mountain Stories 4.09 avg rating — 1,501 ratings
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle 3.66 avg rating — 104,099 ratings
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Appalachia: The Southern Highlands
Appalachia: The Southern Highlands 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead 4.47 avg rating — 705,007 ratings
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Coal River
Coal River 3.99 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Good Dream
The Good Dream 4.09 avg rating — 6,600 ratings
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Daughter of the Legend
Daughter of the Legend 4.16 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 9,594,461 ratings
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Lambs of Men
Lambs of Men 4.40 avg rating — 117 ratings
122.
A Place to Call Home: A Novel
A Place to Call Home: A Novel 4.07 avg rating — 3,165 ratings
123.
Kentucky Straight: Stories
Kentucky Straight: Stories 4.01 avg rating — 1,705 ratings
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Rednecks
Rednecks 3.83 avg rating — 2,517 ratings
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Jim the Boy
Jim the Boy 3.84 avg rating — 3,366 ratings
126.
Plant Life: A Novel
Plant Life: A Novel 3.75 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Mountain Voices: A Legacy of the Blue Ridge and Great Smokies
Mountain Voices: A Legacy of the Blue Ridge and Great Smokies 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Forty Acres and No Mule
Forty Acres and No Mule 4.25 avg rating — 195 ratings
129.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 3.85 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia 4.14 avg rating — 659 ratings
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The Voice of the Mountain (Silver John, #5)
The Voice of the Mountain (Silver John, #5) 4.11 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Fallen Land
Fallen Land 3.81 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
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Serafina and the Black Cloak (Serafina, #1)
Serafina and the Black Cloak (Serafina, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 36,545 ratings
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Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail
Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail 3.99 avg rating — 502 ratings
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I Talk Slower Than I Think: An Antidote to Helicopter Parenting
I Talk Slower Than I Think: An Antidote to Helicopter Parenting 4.24 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Each Vagabond By Name
Each Vagabond By Name 4.01 avg rating — 316 ratings
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True Places
True Places 3.95 avg rating — 22,261 ratings
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Burl: Journalism Giant and Medical Trailblazer
Burl: Journalism Giant and Medical Trailblazer 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
139.
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned 4.25 avg rating — 500 ratings
140.
Dorie: Woman of the Mountains
Dorie: Woman of the Mountains 4.15 avg rating — 192 ratings
141.
Refuge
Refuge 4.24 avg rating — 4,603 ratings
142.
Chemistry and Other Stories
Chemistry and Other Stories
by: Ron Rash
4.24 avg rating — 733 ratings
142.
Foxfire 2: Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making, and more affairs of plain living
Foxfire 2: Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making, and more affairs of plain living 4.32 avg rating — 887 ratings
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Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor's First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains
Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor's First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains 4.09 avg rating — 677 ratings
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Highland Mercies
Highland Mercies 4.19 avg rating — 70 ratings
145.
What My Heart Wants To Tell
What My Heart Wants To Tell 4.09 avg rating — 118 ratings
147.
I Am One of You Forever
I Am One of You Forever 4.09 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
148.
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia 4.52 avg rating — 54 ratings
148.
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story 4.23 avg rating — 12,767 ratings
150.
In a Dark Season (An Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mystery, #4)
In a Dark Season (An Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mystery, #4) 3.97 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains 3.95 avg rating — 8,461 ratings
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The Foster Girls: A Smoky Mountain Novel (Smoky Mountain Series)
The Foster Girls: A Smoky Mountain Novel (Smoky Mountain Series)
by: Lin Stepp
4.12 avg rating — 130 ratings
153.
Given Ground
Given Ground 4.18 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal 4.30 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors
Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors 3.53 avg rating — 426 ratings
156.
Raven Cursed (Jane Yellowrock, #4)
Raven Cursed (Jane Yellowrock, #4) 4.23 avg rating — 18,643 ratings
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The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 81,223 ratings
158.
Sweet Hollow: Stories
Sweet Hollow: Stories 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
159.
Creeker: A Woman's Journey
Creeker: A Woman's Journey 3.65 avg rating — 153 ratings
159.
Chasing Redbird
Chasing Redbird 4.10 avg rating — 13,271 ratings
161.
Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
Far Appalachia: Following the New River North 3.77 avg rating — 635 ratings
162.
The Well and the Mine
The Well and the Mine 3.77 avg rating — 3,720 ratings
163.
Bridge to Terabithia
Bridge to Terabithia 4.06 avg rating — 579,972 ratings
164.
The Blue Star
The Blue Star 3.91 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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Highland Grace (Blue Ridge Legacy #3)
Highland Grace (Blue Ridge Legacy #3) 4.29 avg rating — 62 ratings
165.
Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains
Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains 4.05 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Spencer's Mountain
Spencer's Mountain 4.23 avg rating — 1,876 ratings
168.
Land of a Hundred Wonders
Land of a Hundred Wonders 3.72 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
169.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time 4.14 avg rating — 39,417 ratings
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Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail
Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating — 7,915 ratings
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Child of the Mountains
Child of the Mountains 4.07 avg rating — 710 ratings
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Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service & Rural Health in Appalachia
Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service & Rural Health in Appalachia 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937
Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937 3.96 avg rating — 193 ratings
174.
Southernmost
Southernmost 3.95 avg rating — 9,103 ratings
175.
Lord of Misrule (National Book Award)
Lord of Misrule (National Book Award) 3.36 avg rating — 3,085 ratings
176.
Kinflicks
Kinflicks 3.78 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
177.
The Midwife's Tale
The Midwife's Tale 3.84 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
178.
Divine Right's Trip: A Novel of the Counterculture
Divine Right's Trip: A Novel of the Counterculture 4.14 avg rating — 325 ratings
178.
The Fallen Snow
The Fallen Snow 3.95 avg rating — 348 ratings
178.
Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia
Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia 4.03 avg rating — 100 ratings
178.
Where the Souls Go
Where the Souls Go
by: Ann Hite
4.31 avg rating — 207 ratings
178.
Dig Too Deep
Dig Too Deep 3.91 avg rating — 332 ratings
178.
My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge: Laurel's Dream
My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge: Laurel's Dream 4.58 avg rating — 985 ratings
178.
The Sport of Kings
The Sport of Kings 3.57 avg rating — 3,755 ratings
185.
Crackpots
Crackpots 3.75 avg rating — 192 ratings
185.
The Logan Topographies
The Logan Topographies 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
185.
This Quiet Sky
This Quiet Sky 4.46 avg rating — 696 ratings
188.
The Legend of Mammy Jane: An Uneducated Girl Becomes the Lady of the Manor in Appalachia
The Legend of Mammy Jane: An Uneducated Girl Becomes the Lady of the Manor in Appalachia 4.34 avg rating — 146 ratings
188.
Soldier On (Appalachian Hearts, #3)
Soldier On (Appalachian Hearts, #3) 4.18 avg rating — 394 ratings
188.
Kyland
Kyland 4.26 avg rating — 34,679 ratings
188.
Harrow County #1
Harrow County #1 4.11 avg rating — 359 ratings
188.
A Twist of Faith (Mitchell's Crossroads, #1)
A Twist of Faith (Mitchell's Crossroads, #1) 4.40 avg rating — 753 ratings
188.
Adventures in Terror: Mostly the 1980s
Adventures in Terror: Mostly the 1980s 4.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
194.
Though My Heart Is Torn (The Cadence of Grace, #2)
Though My Heart Is Torn (The Cadence of Grace, #2) 4.36 avg rating — 668 ratings
194.
The Song of Sourwood Mountain
The Song of Sourwood Mountain 4.30 avg rating — 858 ratings
196.
Sweetie
Sweetie 3.73 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
196.
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You 4.20 avg rating — 442 ratings
198.
The Red Flannel Rag: Memories of an Appalachian Childhood
The Red Flannel Rag: Memories of an Appalachian Childhood 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
199.
Old Ben (Juvenile Series)
Old Ben (Juvenile Series) 3.87 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Mountain Midwife
The Mountain Midwife 3.79 avg rating — 4,332 ratings
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