Best Books Set in Appalachia

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Landfall: A Ring of Stories (The Journal Non/Fiction Prize)
Landfall: A Ring of Stories (The Journal Non/Fiction Prize) 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk
Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk 3.60 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Mists of the Blue Ridge
Mists of the Blue Ridge 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel
Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel 4.16 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Outbound Train
Outbound Train 4.33 avg rating — 245 ratings
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The Promise of Jesse Woods
The Promise of Jesse Woods 4.21 avg rating — 2,258 ratings
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All the Missing Girls
All the Missing Girls 3.71 avg rating — 237,001 ratings
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And the Crows Took Their Eyes
And the Crows Took Their Eyes 4.55 avg rating — 197 ratings
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When These Mountains Burn
When These Mountains Burn
by: David Joy
4.07 avg rating — 4,229 ratings
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My Mountains, My People
My Mountains, My People 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 13,259 ratings
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Getaway With Murder (Mountain Lodge Mystery #1)
Getaway With Murder (Mountain Lodge Mystery #1) 3.87 avg rating — 1,410 ratings
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Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree
Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree 4.50 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Torrent Falls (Troublesome Creek Book 3)
Torrent Falls (Troublesome Creek Book 3) 4.32 avg rating — 694 ratings
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These Silent Woods
These Silent Woods 4.03 avg rating — 104,140 ratings
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All Rhodes Lead Here
All Rhodes Lead Here 4.23 avg rating — 156,848 ratings
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Love, Lacey Donovan
Love, Lacey Donovan 4.02 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Ingledove
Ingledove 3.30 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Revelator
Revelator 3.96 avg rating — 6,804 ratings
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause"
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause" 4.35 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Motheater
Motheater 3.41 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864 4.04 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Screaming with the Cannibals (Crum Trilogy #2)
Screaming with the Cannibals (Crum Trilogy #2) 4.12 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Strong Survival : The Life And Times Of A Mountain Woman
Strong Survival : The Life And Times Of A Mountain Woman 3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Killing Ground (Beulah Quintet #5)
The Killing Ground (Beulah Quintet #5) 3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Mountain Splendor: Long Hope Mountain Gal
Mountain Splendor: Long Hope Mountain Gal 4.56 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Go with Me
Go with Me 3.38 avg rating — 1,718 ratings
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Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery (Nurse Phoebe, #1)
Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery (Nurse Phoebe, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 2,108 ratings
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Miracle in a Dry Season (Appalachian Blessings, #1)
Miracle in a Dry Season (Appalachian Blessings, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 2,512 ratings
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Sand Knob through the Eyes of a Child
Sand Knob through the Eyes of a Child really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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An Appalachian Childhood
An Appalachian Childhood 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Old Nathan
Old Nathan 3.76 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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If Not for Grace
If Not for Grace really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia
The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia 4.69 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Thorn Healer (Penned in Time #3)
The Thorn Healer (Penned in Time #3) 4.61 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Daughters of Northern Shores (Blackbird Mountain #2)
Daughters of Northern Shores (Blackbird Mountain #2) 4.35 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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A Cades Cove Childhood
A Cades Cove Childhood 4.24 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Wayland
Wayland 4.71 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Almost Heaven
Almost Heaven 4.13 avg rating — 2,327 ratings
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Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
by: Eric Eyre
4.07 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
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The Line That Held Us
The Line That Held Us
by: David Joy
3.75 avg rating — 7,058 ratings
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Ballad of Calamity Creek
Ballad of Calamity Creek 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Willow Springs (Troublesome Creek Book 2)
Willow Springs (Troublesome Creek Book 2) 4.34 avg rating — 756 ratings
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When the Meadow Blooms
When the Meadow Blooms 4.32 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Tough Enough
Tough Enough 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Light to the Hills
Light to the Hills 4.32 avg rating — 12,494 ratings
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The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters 3.88 avg rating — 2,437 ratings
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Iron House
Iron House
by: John Hart
4.09 avg rating — 17,626 ratings
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Madness Like Morning Glories: Poems
Madness Like Morning Glories: Poems 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Walk of the Spirits (Walk, #1)
Walk of the Spirits (Walk, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
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Know Nothing (Beulah Quintet #3)
Know Nothing (Beulah Quintet #3) 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Legends of the Mountain State
Legends of the Mountain State 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Shelter
Shelter 3.38 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Wisp of a Thing (Tufa, #2)
Wisp of a Thing (Tufa, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 2,191 ratings
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My Hope Is Found (The Cadence of Grace, #3)
My Hope Is Found (The Cadence of Grace, #3) 4.41 avg rating — 536 ratings
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Weedmonkey: Mama, Mother, Whore
Weedmonkey: Mama, Mother, Whore 3.73 avg rating — 1,917 ratings
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Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne Miller Reader
Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne Miller Reader 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Look Back All the Green Valley
Look Back All the Green Valley 3.67 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Freedom
Freedom 3.79 avg rating — 173,401 ratings
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The River of Kings
The River of Kings 3.77 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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Sons of Blackbird Mountain: A Novel (A Blackbird Mountain Novel Book 1)
Sons of Blackbird Mountain: A Novel (A Blackbird Mountain Novel Book 1) 4.28 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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Dogwood
Dogwood 3.98 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
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Hillbilly Hustle
Hillbilly Hustle 3.90 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Scribe
Scribe 3.18 avg rating — 1,625 ratings
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Troublesome Creek
Troublesome Creek 4.06 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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Beanie and Tough Enough
Beanie and Tough Enough 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore
These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore 3.79 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail 3.91 avg rating — 2,807 ratings
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She-Rain
She-Rain 3.99 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Prisons (Beulah Quintet #1)
Prisons (Beulah Quintet #1) 3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Old Woman Who Named Things
The Old Woman Who Named Things 4.37 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
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Legends of the Mountain State 2
Legends of the Mountain State 2 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories (Series in Contemporary Photography, Vol. 4) (Volume 4)
Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories (Series in Contemporary Photography, Vol. 4) (Volume 4) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Livvie Owen Lived Here
Livvie Owen Lived Here 3.53 avg rating — 326 ratings
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The Mountain Girl
The Mountain Girl 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Harrow County #2
Harrow County #2 4.27 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Gone And The Going Away
The Gone And The Going Away really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Just the Way You Are (Pleasant Gap Romance, #1)
Just the Way You Are (Pleasant Gap Romance, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Under a Cloudless Sky
Under a Cloudless Sky 4.46 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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Jolene (Elemental Masters, #15)
Jolene (Elemental Masters, #15) 4.16 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
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Tough Enough and Sassy
Tough Enough and Sassy 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South 4.44 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Lamb in His Bosom
Lamb in His Bosom 3.86 avg rating — 1,827 ratings
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The Nine Brides And Granny Hite
The Nine Brides And Granny Hite 4.47 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Surviving the Applewhites (Applewhites, #1)
Surviving the Applewhites (Applewhites, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 11,682 ratings
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O Beulah Land (Beulah Quintet #2)
O Beulah Land (Beulah Quintet #2) 3.60 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Granny Will Your Dog Bite
Granny Will Your Dog Bite 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Legends of the Mountain State 3
Legends of the Mountain State 3 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Muddy Branch: Memories of an Eastern Kentucky Coal Camp
Muddy Branch: Memories of an Eastern Kentucky Coal Camp 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Six O'Clock Mine Report
Six O'Clock Mine Report 4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Harrow County #3
Harrow County #3 4.27 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Generations: An American Family
Generations: An American Family 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Shade of the Moon (Last Survivors, #4)
The Shade of the Moon (Last Survivors, #4) 3.29 avg rating — 12,592 ratings
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Above Suspicion
Above Suspicion 4.01 avg rating — 3,700 ratings
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My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 83,256 ratings
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Spider's Bite (Elemental Assassin, #1)
Spider's Bite (Elemental Assassin, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 35,226 ratings
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Sweetwater Run (The Kentucky Mountains Book 1)
Sweetwater Run (The Kentucky Mountains Book 1) 4.29 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Tough Enough's Indians
Tough Enough's Indians really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Who Fears the Devil?
Who Fears the Devil? 4.38 avg rating — 511 ratings
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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia 4.01 avg rating — 4,723 ratings
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