The most popular countryside books of 2026

A Wagon in the Woods

James Aldred

Rural Policing Perspectives of International Police Leaders

Alistair Harkness, Karen Bullock, Kyle J. D. Mulrooney, Jessica Rene Peterson

Media Rurality

Darin Barney, Patrick Brodie

A Little Bit of Chappell Roan An Unofficial Celebration of a Fearless Pop Princess

Summersdale Publishers

Rural Policing in Global Contexts Exploring the Unheard Voices of Rural Police Officers

Wendell C. Wallace

The Oks are Not OK

Grace K. Shim

Our Fair Share

Sarah Marie Jette

For the Greatest Good

Blair Hanson

Milly-Molly-Mandy Makes a Garden

Joyce Lankester Brisley

Paradise of Thorns

Aidan Hartley

Farming with Animals

Charis Mather

The Sage Handbook of Eco-Social Policy and Politics

The Convict Gets His Girl

Jane Poller

Medical Mistrust in Appalachia Helping Patients and Providers Communicate with Cultural Humility

Wendy Welch, Beth O'Connor

Farming the Land

Charis Mather

Cultivated

Jeffrey Hoelle

Farmers and Climate Change

Margiana Petersen-Rockney

American Alt Friendship, Madness, and the Search for Home in the Land of Unreality

Chris Lockhart

Africulture How the Principles, Practices, Plants, and People of African Descent Have Shaped American Agriculture

Michael Carter, Jr.

Hot Dog Days

Cam Higgins

Four-Track Tractors on the Farm

Samantha Bell

Bookshop Cats

Daphne du Meowier

Pop-Up Farm

Lizzie Cope

Flaptastic Farm

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