books set in or about appalachia
created by clubby
last updated March, 2025
They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History (Oxford Oral History Series)
Alessandro Portelli
Writing Appalachia
Katherine Ledford
Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945
Ronald D. Eller
Storming Heaven
Denise Giardina
Hawk's Nest
Hubert Skidmore
Don't Tell'em You're Cold: A Memoir of Poverty and Resilience
Katherine P. Manley
A History of Appalachia
Richard B. Drake
Our Southern Highlanders: Introduction By George Ellison
Horace Kephart
Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia
Emily Hilliard
A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West
James J. Lorence
The Southern Highlander and His Homeland
John C. Campbell
Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
David Alan Corbin
Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937
Durwood Dunn
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
Harry M. Caudill
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
James R. Green
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
Elizabeth Catte
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Cassie Chambers
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Steven Stoll
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
Chris Hamby
Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia
Judah Schept
Rednecks
Taylor Brown
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Anthony Harkins
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
Neema Avashia
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