Rural


A Painted House
Educated
Demon Copperhead
The Grapes of Wrath
Winter's Bone
Wuthering Heights
Of Mice and Men
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
Foster
Tierra de mujeres: Una mirada íntima y familiar al mundo rural
The Hunger by Alma KatsuThe Ruins by Scott        SmithThe Troop by Nick CutterThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardDry Lands by Elizabeth Anne  Martins
Into the Wilderness
12 books — 4 voters
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonThe Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesWonderland Creek by Lynn AustinThe Secret Place of Thunder by Alicia G. RuggieriThe Librarian of Boone's Hollow by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Kentucky horse riding librarians
16 books — 32 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonDon't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo WillemsRosa by Nikki GiovanniLast Stop on Market Street by Matt de la PeñaThe Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Bus Rider
267 books — 23 voters
A Compromising Position by Diane Merrill WiggintonWhen Fall Breaks by Julie SolanoBookmark Days by Scot GardnerLost & Found by Nicole  WilliamsThe Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker
YA Country Teen Romance
32 books — 29 voters

The Public Notice by Maurice RickardsBits of Wit and Wisdom by J.O. WintzellA Long Look at Steam by Robert P. OlmstedThe Cattle Guard by Jim HoyA literary history of wallpaper by E.A. Entwisle
• Rare + Bland
98 books — 2 voters

Aravind Adiga
I am talking of a place in India, at least a third of the country, a fertile place, full of rice fields and wheat fields and ponds in the middle of those fields choked with lotuses and water lilies, and water buffaloes wading through the ponds and chewing on the lotuses and lilies. Those who live in this place call it the Darkness. Please understand, Your Excellency, that India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness. The ocean brings light to my country. Every place ...more
Aravind Adiga

Steven Magee
Remote rural areas have always been the best places to live during war.
Steven Magee

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