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The Best Rural Reads UK/USA
Cider with Rosie (Essential Penguin)Cider with Rosie (Essential Penguin) by Laurie Lee
Buy used from: £0.01
Country classic
To Kill a MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.22
Another classic, not to be missed
My Family and Other AnimalsMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Buy new: £5.51 / Used from: £2.35
Bright and funny
The ToymakerThe Toymaker by J.D. Ballam
Buy new: £8.95 / Used from: £4.23
Compelling new novel: warm, evocative, poignant. Great read.
Lake Wobegon DaysLake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £1.29
A favorite reading companion
The Road to Harmony:  An Appalachian Childhood.The Road to Harmony: An Appalachian Childhood. by J.D. Ballam
Buy used from: £6.24
Wobegon in the Mountains.
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie; as I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning; A Moment of WarRed Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie; as I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning; A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £2.94
More lyrical writing by L.L.
Confessions of Nat Turner (Vintage Classic)Confessions of Nat Turner (Vintage Classic) by William Styron
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.99
Vivid and evocative
Toast: The Story of a Boy's HungerToast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.01
Not strictly rural, but fits the list
The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.44
Can't leave this one off