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Suggested Readings

 

An Introduction to Appalachian Literature
And
Appalachian Studies

- by Lon D. Oliver

 

Alexander, John.  Appalachia: A History.  University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Arnow, Hariette Simpson.  The Dollmaker.  Avon, 1999.

Arnow, Hariette Simpson.  Flowering of the Cumberland.  University of Nebraska Press, 1963.

Baldacci, David.  Wish You Well.  Warner Books, 2000.

Ball, Bo.  Appalachian Patterns.   University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Ballard, Sandra L. and Patricia L. Hudson.  Listen Here:  Women Writing in Appalachia.  University of Kentucky Press, 2003.

Billings, Dwight B. and Kathleen M. Blee.  The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia.  Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Billings, Dwight B., Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford, eds. Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes.  Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1999.

Brake, Katherine Vande.  How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia.  Mercer University Press, 2001.

Campbell, Marie.  Tales from the Cloud Walking County.  University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Carawan, Guy and Candie Carawan, eds.  Voices from the Mountains.  The University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Conway, Cecelia.  African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions.  University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Covington, Dennis.  Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia.   Penguin USA, 1996.

DeRosier, Linda Scott.  Creeker: A Woman’s Journey.  The University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

DeRosier, Linda Scott.  Songs of Life and Grace.  University of Kentucky, 2003.

Dillard, Annie.  The Living.  Harper Perennial, 1992.

Dorgan, Howard.  Giving Glory to God in Appalachia.  Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1987.

Dorgan, Howard.  The Old Regular Baptists of Central Appalachia: Brothers and Sisters in Hope.  Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Drake, Richard B.  A History of Appalachia.  Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2001.

Drennen, William M. and Dolores Johnson, eds.  Red, White, Black, and Blue: A dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia.  Ohio University Press, 2003.

Dyer, Joyce, ed.  Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers.  Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1998.

Fox, John Jr.  The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.  University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Frazier, Charles.  Cold Mountain.  Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.

Garrison, Memphis Tennessee.  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman.  Ohio Universtiy Press, 2001.

Giardina, Denise.  The Unquiet Earth: A Novel.  New York: Ivy Books, 1992.

Giardina, Denise.  Storming Heaven.  New York: Ivy Books, 1987.

Hevener, John W.  Which Side Are You On?: The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-1939.  University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Hickam, Homer.  The Coalwood Way.  Dell Publishing, 2000.

Hickam, Homer.  The Rocket Boys also published as October Sky.  Delta Publishing, 2000.

Higgs, Robert J., Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller, eds.  Appalachia Inside Out Volume I: Conflict and Change.  Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Higgs, Robert J., Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller, eds.  Appalachia Inside Out Volume II: Culture and Custom.  Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Hinsdale, Maryann.  It Comes from the People: Community Development and Local Theology.  Temple University Press, 1995.

House, Silas.  Clay’s Quilt.  Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001.

House, Silas.  A Parchment of Leaves.  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002.

House, Silas.  The Coal Tattoo.  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.

Inscoe, John C. ed.  Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Jones, Loyal.  Appalachian Values.  Ashland: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994.

Jones, Loyal.  Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands.  University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Jones, Loyal and Billy Edd Wheeler.  Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor.  Little Rock: August House Publishers, 1987.

Karon, Jan.  At Home in the Web of Life: The Mitford Years.  Penguin USA, 1996.

Kephart, Horance.  Our Southern Highlanders.   The University of Tennessee Press, 1976.

Kingsolver, Barbara.  Prodigal Summer.  Harper Perennial, 2001.

Lewis, Ronald L.  Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

McCauley, Deborah Vansau.  Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

McCrumb, Sharyn.  The Rosewood Casket.  Dutton, 1996.

McCrumb, Sharyn.  She Walks These Hills.  Dutton, 1994.

McCrumb, Sharyn.  The Songcatcher.  Dutton, 2001.

Miles, Emma Bell.  The Spirit of the Mountains. Tennesseana Editions, 1975.

Montell, William Lynwood.  Ghosts along the Cumberland: Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills.  The University of Tennessee Press, 1975.

Norris, Randall and Jean-Philippe Cypres.  Women of Coal.  Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1996.

O’Brien, John.  At Home in the Heart of Appalachia.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

Pudup, Mary Beth, Dwight B. Billings and Altina L. Waller, eds.  Appalachia in the Making; The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Settle, Mary Lee.  The Beulah Quintet.  University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

Shapiro.  Henry D.  Appalachia on our Mind.   University of North Carolina Press, 1978.

Shifflett, Crandall A.  Coal Towns: Life, Work and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

Still, James.  River of Earth.  Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1978.

Still, James.  Jack and the Wonder Beans.  The University of Kentucky Press, 1996.

Still, James.  Pattern of a Man and Other Stories.  Gnomon, 2001.

Still, James.  Rusties and Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles.  University of Kentucky Press, 1975.

Straw, Richard A. and H. Tyler Blethen.  High Mountains Rising.  University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Stuart, Jesse.  Strength from the Hills.  Ashland: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988.

Stuart, Jesse.  Trees of Heaven.  Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1980.

Turner, William H. and Edward J. Cabbell, eds.  Blacks in Appalachia.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

Wagner, Thomas E. and Phillip J. Obermiller.  African American Miners and Migrants.  University of Illinois, 2004.

Warren, Rhoda Bailey.  Appalachian Mountain Girl.  Academy Chicago Publishers, 1998.

Williams, John Alexander.  Appalachia: A History.  The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 

Weller, Jack E.  Yesterday’s People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia.  University of Kentucky Press, 1965

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