The latest 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. The newest come first.

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Lukas Eibensteiner, Robert Hesselbach

Published 2025

245 pages

Kin
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Kin

Shawna Kay Rodenberg

2021 · 2022 edition

352 pages

Ozark Country
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Ozark Country

Otto Ernest Rayburn, Brooks Blevins

Published 2021

280 pages

Shelby Lee Adams
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Shelby Lee Adams

Shelby Lee Adams, John Rohrbach

Published 2019

184 pages

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Meredith McCarroll

Published 2018

172 pages

Rereading Appalachia
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Rereading Appalachia

Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Kim Donehower

Published 2015

238 pages