Set on a Farm or Ranch

Get back to the land! Try one of these books with an agricultural setting or featuring farmers or ranchers at work. Plant a seed, read!

Updated May 12, 2026
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Cold Comfort Farm
Gibbons, Stella
Paper Book
"Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century." --Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a...
Daddy's girls : a novel
Steel, Danielle
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In Danielle Steel's riveting novel, three women raised by their father on a sprawling California ranch now confront difficult truths about their past.   Decades ago, after the death of his wife, Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three...
The excellent Lombards
Hamilton, Jane
Paper Book
A new classic from the author of Oprah's Book Club picks A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth. "This is the book Jane Hamilton was born to write... [it is] magnificent." --Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of...
The farm stand
Clipston, Amy
Paper Book
Salina is engaged to the "perfect" man--except for the fact that Josiah feels more like a friend than a fiancé. In this second installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Marketplace series, love begins to grow between Salina and Will, a Mennonite chef--and both must decide if it's a love...
Farming the woods : an integrated permaculture approach to growing food and medicinals in temperate forests
Mudge, Ken
Paper Book
The first in-depth guide for farmers and gardeners who have access to an established woodland and are looking for productive, innovative ways to create a natural forest ecosystems that produces a wide range of food, medicinals, and other non-timber products. "What a joy to...
Funny farm : my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals
Zaleski, Laurie
Paper Book
An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a...
The gun man Jackson Swagger : a western
Hunter, Stephen
Paper Book
Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, "a true master at the pinnacle of his craft" (Jack Carr), returns with a classic Western--gunfights, horses, saloons, and looming above, the ominous presence of the railroad--about a Civil War veteran investigating the dark reality of a prosperous ranch....
Properties of thirst : a novel
Wiggins, Marianne
Paper Book
A National Bestseller | A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a "big, bold book" (...
Sacrificial animals : a novel
Pedersen, Kailee
Paper Book
Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up alongside her family's farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology. The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive...
This promised land
Gohlke, Cathy
Paper Book
When she ran away as a young war bride, she was cut off from her family forever . . . or so she believed. Decades later, maybe the only way to move on is to go home. Ginny Pickering Boyden can't wait for her last day of work, when she'll be free to pursue a lifelong ambition through...
Vampires of El Norte
Cañas, Isabel
Paper Book
As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters - her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead....

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