The most popular countryside books

Books set in the countryside live close to the land. Farms, fields, hedgerows and the turn of the seasons shape the days of the people in them. You will find gentle rural novels, family sagas and stories of city dwellers starting again in the country.

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The Secret Garden
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The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

1970 · 2003 edition

1 page

Emma
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Emma

Jane Austen

1892 · 2020 edition

490 pages

East of Eden
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East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Published 1970

602 pages

Atonement
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Atonement

Ian McEwan

2001 · 2002 edition

351 pages

Stardust
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Stardust

Neil Gaiman

1995 · 2000 edition

224 pages

Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

1970 · 2008 edition

364 pages

Black Beauty
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Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

1970 · 2003 edition

265 pages