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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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
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"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
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
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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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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
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"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
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
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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
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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
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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
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