Rural Life & Small Town Living in Fiction & Non Fiction

The books listed below will lead you to rural places all over the world. Travel to new locales through them!

Fiction
Bidding For Love by Katie Fforde
Birchwood by John Banville
The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
Courting Shadows by Jem Poster
Glint of Gold by Frances Paige
The Hill Road by Patrick O'Keeffe
The House at Midnight: A Novel by Lucie Whitehouse
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor
The Misremembered Man by Christine McKenna
Mrs. Fytton's Country Life by Mavis Cheek
Shadows & Lies by Marjorie Eccles
That Summer In Sicily: A Love Story by Marlena deBlasi
Wonderboy by Fiona Gibson

Non Fiction
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Bean Blossom Dreams: A City Family's Search For A Simple Country Life by Sallyann J. Murphey
Country Life: A Handbook for Realists & Dreamers by Paul Heiney
The Foxfire 40th Anniversary Book; Faith, Family & The Land edited by Angie Cheek, Lacy Hunter Nix, and Foxfire Students
A Gift From Brittany: A Memoir of Love & Loss in the French Countryside by Marjorie Price
The Harrowsmith Country Life Readers: The Best of North America's Award-Winning Journal of Country Living introduction by James M. Lawrenece
Rural Hoursby Susan Fenimore Cooper
See You In A Hundred Years: Four Seasons In Forgotten America by Logan Ward
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self Reliance by Deborah Burns (ed.); foreward by John & Martha Storey
Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey by Bill Roorbach