Best Books Set in Appalachia

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The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America 3.75 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Render Unto the Valley: A Novel (Historic Fiction Blue Ridge Mountains Series)
Render Unto the Valley: A Novel (Historic Fiction Blue Ridge Mountains Series) 3.88 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Blood Tie
Blood Tie 3.38 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Legends of the Mountain State 4
Legends of the Mountain State 4 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Growing Up in Coal Country
Growing Up in Coal Country 3.97 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Shine
Shine 3.82 avg rating — 12,979 ratings
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Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars 4.34 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Tales From South Of The Mountain
Tales From South Of The Mountain 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do
The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do 3.75 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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Harrow County #4
Harrow County #4 4.31 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Murder in the Smokies (Bitterwood P.D. #1)
Murder in the Smokies (Bitterwood P.D. #1) 4.04 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Rennie's Way
Rennie's Way 4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Coal Run
Coal Run 3.77 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War 3.93 avg rating — 646 ratings
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Mother of Rain
Mother of Rain 4.09 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Tough Enough's Pony
Tough Enough's Pony 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place 4.22 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
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Willa of the Wood (Willa, #1)
Willa of the Wood (Willa, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 7,512 ratings
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Choices
Choices 3.74 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Summer of Deliverance : A Memoir of Father and Son
Summer of Deliverance : A Memoir of Father and Son 4.03 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Have Stakes, Will Travel (Jane Yellowrock, #4.5)
Have Stakes, Will Travel (Jane Yellowrock, #4.5) 4.29 avg rating — 3,627 ratings
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Bright's Passage
Bright's Passage 3.50 avg rating — 3,008 ratings
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Foxfire 8: Southern Folk Potter from Pug Mills, Ash Glazes, Groundhog Kilns to Face Jugs, Churns, Roosters, Mule Swapping and Chicken Fighting (Foxfire Series)
Foxfire 8: Southern Folk Potter from Pug Mills, Ash Glazes, Groundhog Kilns to Face Jugs, Churns, Roosters, Mule Swapping and Chicken Fighting (Foxfire Series) 4.52 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Harrow County #5
Harrow County #5 4.19 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Rescue in the Smokies (Durham Wolves, #1)
Rescue in the Smokies (Durham Wolves, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Her Secret Song
Her Secret Song 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia
Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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From the Appalachians; a Portfolio of Drawings and Paintings
From the Appalachians; a Portfolio of Drawings and Paintings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Worse Things Waiting
Worse Things Waiting 4.15 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Y'all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia
Y'all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia 3.89 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Appalachian Song
Appalachian Song 4.46 avg rating — 5,545 ratings
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Willa of Dark Hollow
Willa of Dark Hollow 4.25 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
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Addie: A Memoir
Addie: A Memoir 3.22 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Appalachian Legacy: Photographs
Appalachian Legacy: Photographs 4.43 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods 3.99 avg rating — 909 ratings
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Foxfire 9: General Stores, The Jud Nelson Wagon, A Praying Rock, A Catawban Indian Potter, Haint Tales, Quilting, Homes Cures, The Log Cabin Revisited (Foxfire Series)
Foxfire 9: General Stores, The Jud Nelson Wagon, A Praying Rock, A Catawban Indian Potter, Haint Tales, Quilting, Homes Cures, The Log Cabin Revisited (Foxfire Series) 4.51 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Harrow County #6
Harrow County #6 4.28 avg rating — 101 ratings
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This Shaky Earth: Poems
This Shaky Earth: Poems 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Web of Lies (Elemental Assassin, #2)
Web of Lies (Elemental Assassin, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 23,380 ratings
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When Stone Wings Fly: A Smoky Mountains Novel
When Stone Wings Fly: A Smoky Mountains Novel 4.36 avg rating — 688 ratings
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The Angel Doll: A Christmas Story
The Angel Doll: A Christmas Story 4.08 avg rating — 260 ratings
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You're Not from Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America
You're Not from Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America 3.84 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Good Brother
The Good Brother 3.84 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Planting By the Signs: Mountain Gardening: The Foxfire Americana Library
Planting By the Signs: Mountain Gardening: The Foxfire Americana Library 4.49 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Home Fires Burning
Home Fires Burning 3.91 avg rating — 114 ratings
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News of the Spirit
News of the Spirit
by: Lee Smith
3.89 avg rating — 407 ratings
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The Birds of Opulence
The Birds of Opulence 4.10 avg rating — 1,483 ratings
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Fair Annie of Old Mule Hollow
Fair Annie of Old Mule Hollow really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Beyonders
The Beyonders 3.55 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia 3.12 avg rating — 6,342 ratings
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Above the Waterfall
Above the Waterfall
by: Ron Rash
3.53 avg rating — 6,291 ratings
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When Venus Fell: A Novel
When Venus Fell: A Novel 3.97 avg rating — 742 ratings
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The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3)
The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3)
by: Greg Iles
4.13 avg rating — 22,631 ratings
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Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia
Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia 4.23 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Mountain Folk Remedies: The Foxfire Americana Library
Mountain Folk Remedies: The Foxfire Americana Library 4.48 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Two for Texas
Two for Texas 4.03 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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Bequest
Bequest 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Hanging at Cinder Bottom
A Hanging at Cinder Bottom 3.81 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Venom (Elemental Assassin, #3)
Venom (Elemental Assassin, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 23,146 ratings
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Hoagie's Rifle-Gun
Hoagie's Rifle-Gun 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Valley So Low: Southern Mountain Stories
Valley So Low: Southern Mountain Stories 4.12 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Pickle Queen (The MacBrides, #2)
The Pickle Queen (The MacBrides, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Voices from the Mountains (Brown Thrasher Books)
Voices from the Mountains (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book 3.71 avg rating — 3,251 ratings
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Boogers, Witches, and Haints: Appalachian Ghost Stories: The Foxfire Americana Library
Boogers, Witches, and Haints: Appalachian Ghost Stories: The Foxfire Americana Library 4.01 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Heaven of Mercury
The Heaven of Mercury 3.57 avg rating — 866 ratings
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Her Words: Diverse Voices In Contemporary Appalachian Womens Poetry
Her Words: Diverse Voices In Contemporary Appalachian Womens Poetry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)
Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 94,214 ratings
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The Appalachians: America's First and Last Frontier
The Appalachians: America's First and Last Frontier 3.85 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley?
Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? 4.23 avg rating — 92 ratings
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In the Hour of Crows
In the Hour of Crows 3.80 avg rating — 1,925 ratings
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Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia
Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Appalachian Justice (Cedar Hollow Series Book 1)
Appalachian Justice (Cedar Hollow Series Book 1) 4.33 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper East Tennessee
Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper East Tennessee 3.75 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)
The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27) 4.14 avg rating — 64,878 ratings
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Waltzing with Horses
Waltzing with Horses 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.97 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Tangled Threads (Elemental Assassin, #4)
Tangled Threads (Elemental Assassin, #4) 4.14 avg rating — 20,078 ratings
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The Ghost of Tillie Jean Cassaway
The Ghost of Tillie Jean Cassaway 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Pickling and Preserving: The Foxfire Americana Library
Pickling and Preserving: The Foxfire Americana Library 4.31 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)
Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 16,828 ratings
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Guests on Earth
Guests on Earth
by: Lee Smith
3.63 avg rating — 6,600 ratings
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More Than Heavy Rain: Poems
More Than Heavy Rain: Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Hatfields and the McCoys
The Hatfields and the McCoys 3.52 avg rating — 337 ratings
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All the Dark Places
All the Dark Places 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Return to Crutcher Mountain
Return to Crutcher Mountain 4.21 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Driving with the Dead: Poems
Driving with the Dead: Poems 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom 4.33 avg rating — 569 ratings
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When Gabriel Called (Silhouette Desire, No 650)
When Gabriel Called (Silhouette Desire, No 650) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Sweet Creek Holler
Sweet Creek Holler 4.09 avg rating — 165 ratings
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This Rock
This Rock 3.68 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal
Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal 3.54 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Blowout (An FBI Thriller, 9)
Blowout (An FBI Thriller, 9) 4.20 avg rating — 13,943 ratings
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Blood Feud: The Hatfields And The Mccoys: The Epic Story Of Murder And Vengeance
Blood Feud: The Hatfields And The Mccoys: The Epic Story Of Murder And Vengeance 3.36 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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The People Therein
The People Therein 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Day Human Prince (Day Human Trilogy #1)
The Day Human Prince (Day Human Trilogy #1) 4.18 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Midwife of the Blue Ridge
Midwife of the Blue Ridge 3.56 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life
Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life 3.75 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Brier Poems
The Brier Poems 4.21 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal
Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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