Riding on Comets A Memoir
Cat Pleska
Published 2015
236 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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The Face of Appalachia Portraits from the Mountain Farm
Tim Barnwell
Published 2003
157 pages
Hill Folks
Brooks Blevins
Published 2002
360 pages
Salt & Truth
Shelby Lee Adams, Catherine Evans, James Enyeart
Published 2011
125 pages
Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule
Loyal Jones, Billy Edd Wheeler
Published 2005
211 pages
Hillbillyland What the Movies Did to the Mountains and what the Mountains Did to the Movies
Jerry Wayne Williamson
Published 1995
325 pages
A Shattered Nation
Anne Sarah Rubin
Published 2007
336 pages
American Hollow
Rory Kennedy, Steve Lehman, Mark Bailey, Umbrage Editions
Published 1999
117 pages
Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill Books)
Muriel Earley Sheppard
Published 1991
302 pages
Purt Nigh Gone The Old Mountain Ways
Zell Miller
Published 2009
171 pages
Stinking Creek
John Fetterman
1970 · 1967 edition
192 pages
The Anguish of Displacement
Katrina M. Powell
2007 · 2015 edition
232 pages
Mountain Voices
Warren Moore
1988 · 1997 edition
320 pages
Children of Crisis - Volume 2
Robert Coles
Published 1971
653 pages
Used to be a Rough Place in Them Hills Moonshine, the Dark Corner, and the New South
Joshua Beau Blackwell
Published 2009
180 pages
Eve's Mountain
Marian Coe
Published 1998
362 pages
Deliverance
James Dickey
Published 1982
168 pages
Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands
Allen H. Eaton
Published 1973
370 pages
Reformers to Radicals The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty
Thomas Kiffmeyer
Published 2008
320 pages
How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things
Joe Jackson
2004 · 2008 edition
336 pages
Mist over the Mountains
Raymond Bial
Published 1997
48 pages
Yesterday in the Hills
Floyd C. Watkins, Charles Hubert Watkins
1973 · 2000 edition
200 pages
Appalachian Heart
Lynn Coffey
Published 2013
278 pages
Songs of Life and Grace
Linda Scott DeRosier
2008 · 2021 edition
736 pages