Books Set in or about Appalachia

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Updated January 13, 2023
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Demon Copperhead
Kingsolver, Barbara
Paper Book
A masterpiece in storytelling from the global bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behaviour.
The giver of stars
Moyes, Jojo
Paper Book
England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van. But stuffy Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours his work and overbearing father, is not what she had hoped for. Then she meets Margery O'Hare, troublesome daughter of a notorious...
Blacktop wasteland : a novel
Cosby, S. A.
Paper Book
Child of God
McCarthy, Cormac
Paper Book
Cormac McCarthy plumbs the depths of human degradation in Child of God, his most brutally violent, shocking work. From the author of Blood Meridian and The Road. 1960s, Tennessee. Lester Ballard is a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman,...
The book woman of Troublesome Creek : a novel
Richardson, Kim Michele,
Paper Book
RECOMMENDED BY DOLLY PARTON IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE! A NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMESBESTSELLER The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse...
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