Recs if you like Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy...

If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer

Country roads, take me home. Appalachia is such an interesting region of the US, and also the setting of many incredible books! Whether it be historical fiction, biographies, folklore, or just every day stories from the Great Smoky Mountains, every recommendation is welcome

For all of the mythos around it, few people truly understand the Appalachian region or why it is the way it is. This list is by no means comprehensive, but hopefully it's a start.

books set in or about appalachia

Books of all genres set in and focused on the Appalachian Mountains!

List named in honor of the women who rode on horseback to bring books to remote mountain regions during the Great Depression, this list now brings books out of the mountains to all of us.