17 Best nonfiction books like Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy by Anthony Harkins

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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

By: Anthony Harkins

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its aut…

"In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story."

-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

"In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story."

-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

"Appalachia, in fact, is a very matriarchal culture. We revere our grandmothers and mothers."

-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

"Appalachia, in fact, is a very matriarchal culture. We revere our grandmothers and mothers."

-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy by Anthony Harkins , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. Caucasia

By: Danzy Senna

3.37

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

In Caucasia--Danzy Senna's extraordinary debut novel and national bestseller--Birdie and Cole are t… read more

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2. Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

By: David Rakoff

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist. Whether David … read more

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3. Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945

By: None

3.62

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. … read more

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4. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

By: J.D. Vance

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a former Marine and Yale Law School Graduate, a poignant account of growing up in a poor Appal… read more

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5. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

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6. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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  • southern
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7. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. How I Won a Nobel Prize

By: Julius Taranto

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, wickedly funny debut novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgrace… read more

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9. 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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  • southern
"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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10. The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.65

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

For Sarah Krasnostein it begins with a Mennonite choir performing on a subway platform, a fleeting … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • essays
Cover of Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1) by Danielle Arceneaux

11. Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)

By: Danielle Arceneaux

3.81

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the uncensored amateur sleuth G… read more

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  • southern
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12. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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13. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

Cover of Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

14. 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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  • southern
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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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15. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir

By: Michael McDonald

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

By: Miles Taylor

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

By: Blair L.M. Kelley

4.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in Ameri… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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18. The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (Detective Varg, #0.8)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.70

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Ulf Varg from the Department of Sensitive Crimes is often called upon to investigate unus… read more

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Cover of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

19. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • southern
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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20. Reunion

By: Elise Juska

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more

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Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

21. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir by Nina St. Pierre

22. Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir

By: Nina St. Pierre

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

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24. Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

By: Anthony Harkins

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its aut… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Harkins's Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy book and Anthony Harkins's Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

  • poetry
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • anthologies
  • southern
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • sociology
"In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story."

-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

"Appalachia, in fact, is a very matriarchal culture. We revere our grandmothers and mothers."

-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

"Elegies are poems dedicated to the dead. The American hillbilly(assuming we can use that word for the white working class) isn't dead; she is just poor."

-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

"On election season politicos dawn their timber boots and red handkerchiefs. Many claim salt of the earth roots every time they eat a watermelon, but they never bite the bitterness of the rind. Everyo…"

-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

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25. On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World

By: Sean Connolly

3.86

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

Cover of Disproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data that Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections by Ken Block

27. Disproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data that Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections

By: Ken Block

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Former US Attorney General Bill Barr says this about Disproven: "I did not know it at the time, bu… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

28. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

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Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

30. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

11 best-selling history books like Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy by Anthony Harkins

Transform Your Habits

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4.14

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3.96

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Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

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4.44

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4.48

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

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3.73

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Taylor Brown

3.89

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4.26

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