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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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!

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Animal farm : the grahic novel
Orwell, George
Paper Book
A beautiful graphic adaptation of George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." In 1945, George Orwell, called "the conscience of his generation," created an enduring, devastating story of new tyranny...
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...
Dangerous refuge
Lowell, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Murder and mystery spark unexpected romance in this captivating new tale from the beloved New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell. On the surface Shaye Townsend has little in common with Tanner. He's a hard-edged big city cop come home to the historic Davis family...
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...
The farmer's son : calving season on a family farm
Connell, John
Paper Book
For fans of James Herriot, a poignant memoir--and #1 Irish bestseller--about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in...
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....
Love is a war song
Nava, Danica
Paper Book
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER ∙ THREADS SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK FOR ROMANCE ∙ AN ELLE BEST ROMANCE OF THE YEAR! A Muscogee pop star and a cowboy who couldn't be more different come together to strike a deal in this new...
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...
The shepherd's life : modern dispatches from an ancient landscape
Rebanks, James.
Paper Book
A major new talent redefines the literature of rural life.      Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty decent camera and a pre...
This life is in your hands : one dream, sixty acres, and a family undone
Coleman, Melissa.
Paper Book
"Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn't just tell the story of her family's brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history....
A thousand acres
Smiley, Jane.
Ebook
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride--and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to...
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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