Recs if you like Prodigal Summer...

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

audiobooks where the narrator is the author! any book goes, no matter the genre. there may be multiple versions of the audiobook, but at least one version has the author as narrator. please suggest more in the comments!

partly inspired by toni morrison’s concept of ‘rememory’, where the past haunts the present. these are stories where family ties, friendships, communities, trauma, or physical locations act as threads (or invisible string) to connect characters across distance or time and through generations.

This is the list from which I'll be choosing for my Personal Syllabus this year. It explores the question: "How has the history and culture of Appalachia impacted Appalachian literature and storytelling?"

I would love recommendations! Nonfiction about Appalachia and fiction produced by Appalachia.

“It was the garden that came first, heaven trailing in its wake” — Olivia Laing

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⋆ ˚｡⋆ summer sapphic/wlw stories ⋆ ˚｡⋆

( majority or all of the book must take place during summertime! ) recs appreciated <3

Humans share 25% of our DNA with trees and I share 100% of my affections with these books that feature forests, trees, and wild landscapes.

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🌲🌲🌲 See you in the forest ✌️🌲🌲🌲

A balance of breezy page-turners with immersive classics and thought-provoking non-fiction.

For when you need to get off your phone and be immersed in the beauty of the world!

books set in or about appalachia

eco-philosophy, ecology, capitalism and how it relates to climate, etc etc with some fiction thrown in there to spice things up.

Books that are set in a small town; variety of genres but all one teeny tiny town

The SciFri Book Club, created by the people who bring you the weekly public radio show Science Friday, is a program to bring people together around all things science reading—anything from sci-fi short stories to nonfiction science books to science articles from various publications to science-y poetry!

A compilation of the books mentioned in The Last Page by Katie Holt. The story is set in a bookstore and each chapter starts with a staff pick recommendation from one of the employees there. Gonna be relying on this for the Bookception prompt of HRCYED 3.0

Goodreads Published List of Consistently > 4 ⭐️(by year published)

2000: Plain Truth - House of Leaves ‘01: Other Boleyn Girl - Secret Life of Bees ‘02: Fingersmith - Lamb ‘03: Shutter Island - Time Traveler’s Wife ‘04: Shadow of the Wind - Cloud Atlas ‘05: No Country for Old Men - Book Thief ‘06: Sharp Objects - Road ‘07: Terror - Thousand Splendid Suns ‘08: City of Thieves - Hunger Games ‘09: Maze Runner - Cutting for Stone

Ran out of room.. See Comments for full list!

discover the literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of Appalachian author Barbara Kingsolver!

Pretty self explanatory, the main character is a biologist, and I love that as someone studying biology.

Note: I'm basing this on the synopsis of the books because I haven't read most of them yet. If I got any wrong, please do tell me. If anyone has any recommendations, please also do tell me.

Learn fascinating facts about animals while you read.

Fiction books with explicit or implied themes of earth, water, air and fire