Books like Ava’s Man

#1

Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams

Canter Brown

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#2

Lbj’s Texas White House “Our Heart’s Home&#8221

Hal Rothman

Themes: Rural • Customs & Traditions • Cultural & Social

#3

Hillbilly Highway The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class

Max Fraser

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural & Social

#4

The Land Remembers The Story of a Farm and Its People

Ben Logan

Themes: Rural • Customs & Traditions • State & Local

#5

Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J. D. Vance

Themes: Rural • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#6

Farm Girl A Wisconsin Memoir

Beuna Coburn Carlson

Themes: Rural • Economic History • State & Local

#7

From Congregation Town to Industrial City Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community

Michael Shirley

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural & Social

#8

The Quiet Zone Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

Stephen Kurczy

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#9

High Cotton Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta

Gerard Helferich

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#10

Season of the Witch Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love

David Talbot

Themes: Customs & Traditions • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#11

Rainbow’s End A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm

Lauren St John

Themes: Rural • Customs & Traditions • Cultural & Social

#12

Night Comes to the Cumberlands A Biography of a Depressed Area

Harry M. Caudill

Themes: Economic History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural & Social

#13

Lost Plantation The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks

Marc R. Matrana

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#14

Currituck as it Used to be

Travis Morris

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#15

The Tropic of Cracker

Al Burt

Themes: Rural • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions

#16

White Flight Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Kevin M. Kruse

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#17

V was for Victory Politics and American Culture During World War II

John Morton Blum

Themes: Customs & Traditions • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#18

The Flame Trees of Thika Memories of an African Childhood

Elspeth Huxley

Themes: Rural • Customs & Traditions • Cultural & Social

#19

Bayou Harvest Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana

Helen A. Regis

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions • Cultural & Social

#20

In the Shadow of Statues A White Southerner Confronts History

Mitch Landrieu

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#21

The Vital Dead Making Meaning, Identity, and Community Through Cemeteries

Alison Bell

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions • Cultural & Social

#22

Visions of the Black Belt A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama

Robin McDonald

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions • Cultural & Social

#23

Jockomo The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians

Shane Lief

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Customs & Traditions • Cultural & Social

#24

Power in the Blood A Family Narrative

Linda Tate

Themes: Cultural & Social • Anthropology • State & Local