I'm back and in another reading slump, hoping for a book to scratch the itch.
I live on a farm in New England. It's amazing and a life-long dream. I love to read seasonally – I want to read autumnal books in autumn, wintery books in winter. I will actually put a book down and save it for later if I start to realize it's a "spring" book.
I am looking for fiction books that, regardless of the actual story, have elements of living in rural life. Gardening, harvesting, foraging… living in a cabin or farmhouse… in the woods, in a field… right now I'm looking for autumnal, obviously, but I'd take any recommendations!
I'm not looking for YA and have excluded YA from my list below. I'm also not looking for nonfiction – that could be a whole other post.
Here's some that I've read:
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (my favorite of all time and #1 recommendation to anyone that will listen)
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Wild Dark Shore by Carlotte McConaghy
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
Evergreen by Rebecca Rasmussen
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
Greenwood by Michael Christie
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Go as a River by Shelley Read
Small Game by Blair Braverman
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
What Wild Women Do by Karma Brown
Brinam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrum
Weyward by Emilia Hart
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
A Month in the Country by JL Carr
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch
The River by Peter Heller
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
by MajesticVelcro