Deliverance
James Dickey
1970 · 2023 edition
272 pages
The most popular regional identity books
These books are about peoples with their own language or culture inside a larger country. Basques, Catalans, Bretons, Corsicans, Scots and many others appear, with stories of land, language and the wish to be recognized. Novels and histories here are full of local color and stubborn pride.
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What You are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
Elizabeth Catte
Published 2018
146 pages
Hill William
Scott McClanahan
Published 2013
222 pages
Sweetie
Kathryn Magendie
Published 2010
216 pages
Our Southern Highlanders
Horace Kephart
1976 · 2000 edition
548 pages
No Time for Sergeants
Mac Hyman
Published 1995
214 pages
At Home in the Heart of Appalachia
John O'Brien
2001 · 2002 edition
320 pages
Shenandoah A Story of Conservation and Betrayal
Sue Eisenfeld
Published 2014
193 pages
The United States of Appalachia How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
Jeff Biggers
2006 · 2007 edition
256 pages
Creeker
Linda Scott DeRosier
Published 2002
272 pages
Blue Ridge Billy
Lois Lenski
2000 · 2015 edition
215 pages
Washed in the Blood
Lisa Alther
Published 2011
420 pages
Yesterday's People
Jack E. Weller
Published 1995
184 pages
To Make My Bread
Grace Lumpkin
1995 · 2014 edition
384 pages
The Spirit of the Mountains
Emma Bell Miles
Published 1975
205 pages
Mama's Shoes
Rebecca D. Elswick
Published 2011
340 pages
Appalachian Lives
Shelby Lee Adams
Published 2003
98 pages
Heart of Glass
Diane Noble
Published 2002
374 pages
Back Talk from Appalachia
Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, Katherine Ledford
2000 · 2013 edition
352 pages
Removing Mountains Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields
Rebecca R. Scott
Published 2010
271 pages
A People and Their Quilts
John Rice Irwin
1984 · 1997 edition
214 pages
Riding on Comets A Memoir
Cat Pleska
Published 2015
236 pages
Hill Folks
Brooks Blevins
Published 2002
360 pages
Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule
Loyal Jones, Billy Edd Wheeler
Published 2005
211 pages