Books Set in Appalachia

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The Secret Place of Thunder (Librarians of Willow Hollow, #4)
The Secret Place of Thunder (Librarians of Willow Hollow, #4) 4.41 avg rating — 69 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating — 436,143 ratings
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Hearts on Lonely Mountain (Librarians of Willow Hollow #3)
Hearts on Lonely Mountain (Librarians of Willow Hollow #3) 4.50 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Miranda Warning (A Murder in the Mountains, #1)
Miranda Warning (A Murder in the Mountains, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,047 ratings
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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain 3.89 avg rating — 248,122 ratings
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Prodigal Summer
Prodigal Summer 4.05 avg rating — 123,770 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating — 488,850 ratings
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Gap Creek
Gap Creek 3.74 avg rating — 54,202 ratings
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She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3)
She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 4,405 ratings
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The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4)
The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4) 4.04 avg rating — 3,918 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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Trial by Twelve (A Murder in the Mountains #2)
Trial by Twelve (A Murder in the Mountains #2) 4.44 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Be Still My Soul (The Cadence of Grace, #1)
Be Still My Soul (The Cadence of Grace, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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Ghost Riders (Ballad, #7)
Ghost Riders (Ballad, #7) 3.95 avg rating — 1,923 ratings
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Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter 3.99 avg rating — 6,039 ratings
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The Funeral Dress
The Funeral Dress 3.95 avg rating — 4,536 ratings
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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
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Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead 4.47 avg rating — 705,337 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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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 — 6,341 ratings
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The Giver of Stars
The Giver of Stars 4.29 avg rating — 485,797 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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When the Meadow Blooms
When the Meadow Blooms 4.32 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Guilt by Association (Murder in the Mountains #3)
Guilt by Association (Murder in the Mountains #3) 4.63 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Dogwood
Dogwood 3.98 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
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Finding Hope (Librarians of Willow Hollow #0.5)
Finding Hope (Librarians of Willow Hollow #0.5) 4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Flight Behaviour
Flight Behaviour 3.82 avg rating — 100,171 ratings
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Long Man
Long Man 3.79 avg rating — 2,620 ratings
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Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal
Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area 4.07 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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The Devil Amongst the Lawyers (Ballad, #8)
The Devil Amongst the Lawyers (Ballad, #8) 3.61 avg rating — 1,806 ratings
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American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett
American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett 3.88 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Bloodroot
Bloodroot 3.80 avg rating — 8,337 ratings
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When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books) 4.25 avg rating — 7,458 ratings
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Coal River
Coal River 3.99 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories
Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories 4.16 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains
Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains 3.93 avg rating — 86 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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Singing Family of the Cumberlands
Singing Family of the Cumberlands 4.01 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement 4.14 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Cove
The Cove
by: Ron Rash
3.70 avg rating — 12,378 ratings
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia 4.28 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Sadie's Mountain (Montani Semper Liberi , #1)
Sadie's Mountain (Montani Semper Liberi , #1) 3.95 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Orchard Hill: A Personal Appalachian Triumph
Orchard Hill: A Personal Appalachian Triumph 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Winter Calf (Maple Gap #1)
The Winter Calf (Maple Gap #1) 4.18 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Melting the Ice
Melting the Ice 4.05 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Red Flannel Rag: Memories of an Appalachian Childhood
The Red Flannel Rag: Memories of an Appalachian Childhood 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Drunken Crows
Drunken Crows 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Sinner in Paradise
A Sinner in Paradise 3.53 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Amber and Blue II Victory
Amber and Blue II Victory
by: K.R. Rowe
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Jericho
Jericho
by: Ann McMan
4.18 avg rating — 3,774 ratings
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Heartsick
Heartsick 3.47 avg rating — 88 ratings
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A Waste of Shame and Other Sad Tales of the Appalachian Foothills
A Waste of Shame and Other Sad Tales of the Appalachian Foothills 3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Middle Ground
The Middle Ground it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Man Who Moved a Mountain
The Man Who Moved a Mountain 4.36 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Waters Run Wild
Waters Run Wild 4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Storming Heaven
Storming Heaven 4.11 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
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Spinning Jenny
Spinning Jenny 4.24 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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Julianna's Choice (The Stone Wolves Book 1)
Julianna's Choice (The Stone Wolves Book 1) 3.72 avg rating — 18 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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This Quiet Sky
This Quiet Sky 4.46 avg rating — 696 ratings
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Clog Dance in the Appalachians
Clog Dance in the Appalachians 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Outbound Train
Outbound Train 4.33 avg rating — 245 ratings
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The Road to Bittersweet
The Road to Bittersweet 4.31 avg rating — 13,808 ratings
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The Sport of Kings
The Sport of Kings 3.57 avg rating — 3,755 ratings
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Goshen Road
Goshen Road 4.22 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Hum and the Shiver (Tufa, #1)
The Hum and the Shiver (Tufa, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 4,724 ratings
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Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia
Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia 4.10 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Down Down the Mountain
Down Down the Mountain 4.24 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Summer Sons
Summer Sons 3.79 avg rating — 13,321 ratings
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Revelator
Revelator 3.96 avg rating — 6,804 ratings
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Affair at Boreland Springs
Affair at Boreland Springs 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Rednecks
Rednecks 3.83 avg rating — 2,519 ratings
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Weeping Willow
Weeping Willow 4.36 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Amber and Blue
Amber and Blue
by: K.R. Rowe
3.86 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Aftermath
Aftermath
by: Ann McMan
4.11 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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A Tree Full of Stars
A Tree Full of Stars 4.03 avg rating — 29 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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Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout: A Hillbilly Poet's Journey From Appalachia to Yale to Writing Hits for Elvis, Johnny Cash & More
Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout: A Hillbilly Poet's Journey From Appalachia to Yale to Writing Hits for Elvis, Johnny Cash & More 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Wayland
Wayland 4.71 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Moonshiner's Daughter
The Moonshiner's Daughter 4.21 avg rating — 22,208 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 Name Is River
My Name Is River 4.27 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Mind Games
Mind Games 4.32 avg rating — 37,908 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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Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking
Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking 4.42 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Under a Cloudless Sky
Under a Cloudless Sky 4.46 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by: Beth Macy
3.86 avg rating — 2,918 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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The Promise of Jesse Woods
The Promise of Jesse Woods 4.21 avg rating — 2,258 ratings
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I Love to Tell the Story (Librarians of Willow Hollow #2)
I Love to Tell the Story (Librarians of Willow Hollow #2) 4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Child of the Mountains
Child of the Mountains 4.07 avg rating — 710 ratings
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice 4.30 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Western North Carolina Beer: A Mountain Brew History
Western North Carolina Beer: A Mountain Brew History it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance 4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings
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A Strand of Hope
A Strand of Hope 4.49 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Mother of Rain
Mother of Rain 4.09 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Thirteen Moons
Thirteen Moons 3.75 avg rating — 16,134 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia 4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings
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Appalachian Song
Appalachian Song 4.46 avg rating — 5,538 ratings
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