10 best-selling fiction books like The Coal Tattoo by Silas House

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The Coal Tattoo

By: Silas House

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In World War II-era rural Kentucky, twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth, her teenaged sister, los…

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1. Strange as This Weather Has Been

By: Ann Pancake

3.88

Format: 357 pages, Paperback

Set in present day West Virginia, Ann Pancake’s debut novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been, tell… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • novels
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2. The Birds of Opulence

By: Crystal Wilkinson

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberriesand Water Streetco… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Wilkinson's The Birds of Opulence book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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3. The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4)

By: Sharyn McCrumb

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

Randall Stargill lies dying on his southern Appalachian farm, and his four sons have come home to b… read more

Similar categories in Sharyn McCrumb's The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4) book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

By: Timothy B. Tyson

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a … read more

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Cover of Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương, Nina McPherson, Phan Huy Đường

5. Paradise of the Blind

By: Dương Thu Hương , Nina McPherson , Phan Huy Đường

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Paradise of the Blindis an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a … read more

Similar categories in Dương Thu Hương's Paradise of the Blind book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

By: Dolly Parton

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

In concerts, movies and on TV, Dolly Parton's singing and honest-to-God personality has charmed mil… read more

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7. Divine Right's Trip

By: Gurney Norman , Ed McClanahan

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fiction. A "novel of the counterculture," Gurney Norman's DIVINE RIGHT'S TRIP elicited comparison t… read more

Similar categories in Gurney Norman's Divine Right's Trip book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • novels
  • fiction

8. Pigs in Heaven

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about fa… read more

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9. Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel

By: Robert Gipe

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Dawn Jewell is fifteen. She is restless, curious, and wry. She listens to Black Flag, speaks her mi… read more

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10. Saints at the River

By: Ron Rash

4.41

Format: None pages,

When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, th… read more

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11. A Place on Earth

By: Wendell Berry

4.25

Format: None pages,

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12. The Ballad of Frankie Silver (Ballad, #5)

By: Sharyn McCrumb

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A career lawman will bear witness to the final judgement, as a man he put away twenty years ago is … read more

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13. Fair and Tender Ladies

By: Lee Smith

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From Ivy Rowe's birth on Blue Star Mountain, her life is full of passion and longing as she writes … read more

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14. When These Mountains Burn

By: David Joy

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail hi… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's When These Mountains Burn book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It had never been that addicts don’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over."

-David Joy, When These Mountains Burn

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15. Whispering Winds of Appalachia

By: John Ellington

4.46

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Life-long friendships, class differences, terrible mistakes, and the beauty of unspoiled nature ar… read more

Similar categories in John Ellington's Whispering Winds of Appalachia book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

17. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

By: Cassie Chambers

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Chambers's Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • southern
  • audiobook
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"

-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

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18. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By: Elizabeth Catte

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Catte's What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • historical
  • southern
  • audiobook
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19. Along a Storied Trail

By: Ann H. Gabhart

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serv… read more

Similar categories in Ann H. Gabhart's Along a Storied Trail book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Coal Tattoo by Silas House

20. The Coal Tattoo

By: Silas House

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In World War II-era rural Kentucky, twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth, her teenaged sister, los… read more

Similar categories in Silas House's The Coal Tattoo book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of I Can Fix This: And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child by Kristina Kuzmic

21. I Can Fix This: And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child

By: Kristina Kuzmic

4.70

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Hold On, But Don’t Hold Still, the emotionally charged and eye-opening account o… read more

Similar categories in Kristina Kuzmic's I Can Fix This: And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child book and Silas House's The Coal Tattoo

  • audiobook

8 best-selling audiobook books like The Coal Tattoo by Silas House

Transform Your Habits

The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4)

Sharyn McCrumb

3.69

Transform Your Habits

When These Mountains Burn

David Joy

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Those We Thought We Knew

David Joy

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Cassie Chambers

3.96

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8 best-selling audiobook books like What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

Transform Your Habits

Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Cassie Chambers

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Even As We Breathe

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Rednecks

Taylor Brown

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

Neema Avashia

4.26

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