What to Read After Appalachian Elegy
Readers who loved Appalachian Elegy by bell hooks keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Appalachian Elegy is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Appalachian Elegy
The circle game
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
Morning haiku
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Undoing Border Imperialism
Feminist, Queer, Crip
A timbered choir
Undersong
Sin
The woman who fell from the sky
Ain't I a Woman
Absalom, Absalom!
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The fire next time
The New Jim Crow
Men Explain Things To Me
The Thing Around Your Neck
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
As I Lay Dying
The Girls
The Artist's Way
The happiness project
Hillbilly Elegy