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Appalachian Titles
Look away over Yandro: Books about the Appalachian Mountain Folk
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October 2002
Compiled by Christine Jeffords,
from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
FICTION
Harriet Simpson Arnow The Dollmaker (also a movie w/Jane Fonda)
David Baldacci Wish You Well
Bo Ball Appalachian Patterns.
Cal Carpenter The Walton War and Tales of the Great Smoky Mountains
Erskine Caldwell Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre (set in Georgia)
Fred Chappell all titles
James Dickey Deliverance
Pamela Duncan Moon Women
Tony Early Jim the Boy
John Ehle The Winter People
John Fox, Jr. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, & others
Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
Denise Giardina Storming Heaven
Janice Holt Giles Shady Grove, Wellspring, The Plum Thicket, The Enduring Hills, Tara's Healing, Miss Willie, Hill Man (w/Wade Hall)
Silas House Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves
Barbara Kingsolver Prodigal Summer
Cormac McCarthy Suttree
Sharyn McCrumb Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Sharyn McCrumb Nora Bonesteel/Spencer Arrowwood series: If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, The Rosewood Casket, She Walks These Hills, The Songcatcher
Catherine Marshall Christy
Robert Morgan Gap Creek, This Rock, The Truest Pleasure, The Blue Valleys: A Collection of Stories.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Sang Spell (YA)
Sterling North So Dear to My Heart
Breece D'J Pancake short stories
Melville Davisson Post Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries
Eugenia Price Savannah Quartet (series)
Gwynn Rubio Icy Sparks
Donald Secreast White Trash, Red Velvet: Stories.
Lee Smith The Devil's Dream, Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, Saving Grace
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall Come and Go, Molly Snow
Andrea Trigiani Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler, Milk Glass Moon
Manly Wade Wellman Appalachian fantasies featuring "Silver John"; The Valley So Low, The Voice of the Mountain
Patricia Tichenor Westfall Fowl Play, Mother of the Bride
Harold Bell Wright The Shepherd of the Hills (also a movie w/John Wayne, of all people, and Harry Carey Sr.)
Isabel Zuber Salt
MIXED:
Wendell Berry novels and essays
Jesse Stuart various fiction and nonfiction titles
NONFICTION
James Agee & Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, & followup, Dale Maharidge, And Their Children After Them
Kathi Appelt Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky (juvenile)
Michael P. Branch & Daniel J. Philippon The Height of Our Mountains
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods
James Burchill, et al. The Cold, Cold Hand: Stories of Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills ---. Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills: Stories and Legends
North Callahan "Smoky Mountain Country"
Al Capp collections of his "Li'l Abner" strip (though not politically correct)
Richard Chase Jack Tales & other collections
Thomas D. Clark Rivers of America: The Kentucky
Donald Davidson Rivers of America: The Tennessee
Linda Scott DeRosier Creeker
Wilma Dykeman Rivers of America: The French Broad
Robert Karl Gilmore Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions: Theatrical Folkways of Rural Missouri, 1885-1910
Cecille Haddix, ed. Who Speaks for Appalachia?
Joseph S. Hall Yarns and Tales from the Great Smokies.
Homer Hickam Rocket Boys, The Coalwood Way, etc.
Herbert L. Hyde My Home is in the Smoky Mountains.
W. C. Jameson Buried Treasures of the Appalachians: Legends of Homestead Caches, Indian Mines and Loot from Civil War Raiders.
F. Roy Johnson Supernaturals Among Carolina Folk and Their Neighbors.
Katie Letcher Lyle Scalded to Death by the Steam, The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives
Loretta Lynn Coal Miner's Daughter
James McConkey Rowan's Progress
C. Hodge Mathes Tall Tales From Old Smoky.
William Lynwood Montell Ghosts Along the Cumberland: Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills.
Edain McCoy Mountain Magick: Folk Wisdom from the Heart of Appalachia
W. K. McNeil, ed. Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture
Patrick B. Mullen Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers.
Philip J. Obermiller & William W. Phillber, eds. Too Few Tomorrows: Urban Appalachians in the 1980's
Ted Olson Blue Ridge Folklife
Chris Ouffut No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
Elaine Fowler Palencia Brier County: Stories from Blue Valley.
Charles Edwin Price Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper East Tennessee ---. The Mystery of Ghostly Vera and other Haunting Tales of Southwest Virginia
Vance Randolph various books on Ozark folklore
Otto Ernest Rayburn Ozark Country
Leonard W. Roberts ed. South from Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Tales.
Nancy Roberts Ghosts of the Southern Mountains and Appalachia
Randy Russell & Janet Barnett The Granny Curse and Other Ghosts and Legends from East Tennessee ---. Mountain, Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina
Cynthia Rylant When I Was Young in the Mountains, Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds, & others
James Still The Wolfpen Notebook: A Record of Appalachian Life.
Jean Thomas Blue Ridge Country
Roy Edwin Thomas Southern Appalachia, 1885-1915: Oral Histories from Residents of the State Corner Area of Northern Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
James West Plainville, USA (Ozarks) & followup, Art Gallaher, Jr., Plainville Fifteen Years Later
Bill & Hazel Westfall Singin' in the Hills
Eliot Wigginton et al. Foxfire volumes
Meredith Sue Willis In the Mountains of America
Various biographies of Dolly Parton (keyword search @ Amazon.com) and other
country singers
ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/bibliography/index.htm
http://www.appalachianstudies.org/syllabi/index.html
http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/suggread.htm
http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/readsug2.htm
http://www.etsu.edu/english/judaculla/awa_connections.htm
http://www.etsu.edu/arts.asp
MUSIC
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Alan Lomax's 1950's field collections
Soundtracks to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," "O Sister: The Women's Bluegrass Collection"
A Fiction_L archive page from 2001:
Books Like Jesse Stuart's, With Appalachian Dialect
http://www.webrary.org/Maillist/msg/2001/1/Re.bookslikeJesseStuartsw.html
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