Appalachian


A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Demon Copperhead
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
Wish You Well
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Serena
Prodigal Summer
Fair and Tender Ladies
She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3)
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
Bloodroot
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Where All Light Tends to Go
Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #1)
What Momma Left Behind by Cindy K. SprolesThe Girls of Atomic City by Denise KiernanHillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun... by Patricia H. GrahamChristy by Catherine MarshallLiar's Winter by Cindy K. Sproles
East Tennessee
161 books — 17 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonAWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David MillerStumbling Thru by A. Digger StolzGrandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben MontgomeryBecoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
Best Appalachian Trail Books
86 books — 184 voters

Wildwood Flowers by Julia WattsCrush by Richard SikenThe Wilding of Em's Path by Ana K. WrennHypnotizing Chickens by Julia WattsFinding H.F. by Julia Watts
Lesbian Appalachia
8 books — 4 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBanner in the Sky by James Ramsey UllmanMystery of the Fleeing Girl by Showell StylesThe Mountain of Adventure by Enid BlytonMy Side of the Mountain Trilogy by Jean Craighead George
Mountaineering in Juvenile Fiction
66 books — 6 voters
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyRocket Boys by Homer HickamThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsStorming Heaven by Denise GiardinaCrum by Lee Maynard
West Virginia
211 books — 130 voters

Amanda Elliot
Appalachian food?" "It's not given its proper due," Kel said. "But it's just as rich and diverse and interesting as every other cuisine." I didn't know a ton about Appalachian food, but I knew it incorporated foods native to the Appalachian region and was sometimes stereotypically associated with times of hardship, when families had to feed a lot of people with very little. Buckwheat cakes. Vinegar pie. Stews and rabbits. Vegetables like morrels and ramps eaten fresh, or others canned in creativ ...more
Amanda Elliot, Sadie on a Plate

Adriana Trigiani
Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself.
Adriana Trigiani, Big Stone Gap

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