- Classics
- Strong characterization
- Rural setting
As I Lay Dying By William Faulkner
F Faulkner
In a novel about hopeless perseverance in the face of mortality, guileless Lena Grove searches for the father of her unborn child, Reverend Hightower is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen, and drifter Joe Christmas is consumed by his mixed ancestry.
The Truest Pleasure
By Robert Morgan
F Morgan
Pentecostal worship ideals attract Ginny while her husband Tom disapproves, but they keep their marriage intact in the early-20th-century Blue Ridge mountains through a series of difficulties.
My Antonia
By Willa Cather
F Cather
Antonia works as a servant for her neighbors after her father's death, elopes, and then returns to marry a Bohemian farmer.
Cold Mountain By Charles Frazier
F Frazier
After Inman escapes from a war hospital in 1864 and starts walking to Cold Mountain, Ada struggles to save her mountain farm with the help of Ruby, an illiterate but efficient farmer.
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
F Steinbec
The Joad family, Okie farmers forced from their dustbowl home during the Depression, try to find work as migrant fruitpickers in California.
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