Rural


Demon Copperhead
A Painted House
Educated
A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
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
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
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)
Foster
The Big House in a Small Town by Eric J. WilliamsWould You Marry A Farmer? by Lorna SixsmithWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsElizabeth's Mountain by Lucille GuarinoDreamland by Sam Quinones
Rural Sociology
30 books — 4 voters

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockThe Road by Cormac McCarthyWinter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Regional Grit Lit
125 books — 89 voters
The Hike by Alison FarrellThe Little House by Virginia Lee BurtonThe Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria HoustonThe First Strawberries by Joseph BruchacMufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
Rural Picturebooks
111 books — 8 voters

The Lost Spells by Robert MacfarlaneAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotCider with Rosie by Laurie LeeH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldAll Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
Memoirs of British country life
153 books — 18 voters
Vinyl Hayride by Paul KingsburyThe Ozarks by George Oxford MillerLoretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta LynnLost Highway by Peter GuralnickHe Walks with Me by David                      ...
Deep In Some Arbitrary Holler
283 books — 6 voters

It isn’t just the US: the half of the world’s population that lives in urban areas generates more than 80 percent of global output, while 600 cities that account for just one-fifth of the global population generate more than 60 percent of global output. Urban living is also healthier for the environment as it tends to involve less travel and smaller housing. Add to that the fact that urban dwellers are ideologically different from their rural counterparts: comparatively liberal, international, t ...more
Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

Plantar és un començament i replantar una continuació, i no és fàcil discernir què és què. Un cep que es planta sempre serà un punt de partida, un inici d’una vida. Si es replanta, si es posa en els espais buits d’altres que van morir en vinyes ja plantades, és un punt de partida i un punt i seguit. Que plantar sigui un començament no deixa de ser també una ficció. És imaginar els anys que vindran, els raïms, les formes que agafaran els rabassons i la visió de la uniformitat de la vinya, però t ...more
Júlia Viejobueno Cavallé, Quedar-se al tros

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For fiction readers who seek the rural gay perspective. Much has been written about the big city…more
3 members, last active 10 years ago
A rural-reading book club organized by The Center for Rural Strategies.
1 member, last active 2 years ago
This group is for all Authors who have a true story to tell from their own experience of Grief t…more
1 member, last active 12 years ago