A Farming Life:
Family Farms & Farm Life in Fiction

The Not So Simple Life, Alayne Adams

A Recipe for Bees, Gail Anderson-Dargatz

In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story, Jerry Apps

Winter Run, Robert Ashcom

Dominion, Calvin Baker

Wish You Well, David Baldacci

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

Undercover Love, Mary Sydney Burk

Q Road, Bonnie Jo Campbell

The Moonflower Vine, Jetta Carleton

My Ántonia, Willa Cather

Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee

Alice's Tulips, Sandra Dallas

The Legacy of Eden, Nelle Davy

A Can of Peas, Traci DePree

A Blade of Grass, Lewis DeSoto

The Edge of Town, Dorothy Garlock

The Paperbark Shoe, Goldie Goldbloom

Sweet Jiminy, Kristin Gore

A Painted House, John Grisham

A Soldier Returns: A Western Story, Fred Grove

A Winter Marriage, Kerry Hardie

Plainsong, Kent Haruf

A Student of Weather, Elizabeth Hay

The Turtle Catcher, Nicole Helget

The Quickening, Michelle Hoover

Saving Willowbrook, Anna Jacobs

Mudbound, Hillary Jordan

Home to Woefield, Susan Juby

Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver

A Home of Our Own, Gwen Kirkwood

The Other Side of the Bridge, Mary Lawson

The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life, Gene Logsdon

Blessed Are the Cheesemakers, Sarah-Kate Lynch

The Eye of the Leopard, Henning Mankell

Walking Through Shadows, Bev Marshall

Clouds Before the Sun, Janet Wright Matthews

Benny & Shrimp, Katarina Mazetti

This Heavy Silence, Nicole Mazzarella

After River, Donna Milner

Under this Unbroken Sky, Shandi Mitchell

We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates

What We Lost, Dale Peck

Starting Over, Robin Pilcher

Bent Road, Lori Roy

Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz

Fruit of All Evil,* Paige Shelton

God's Fool, Mark Slouka

An Untamed Land,* Lauraine Snelling

A Cherished Freedom, Joyce Stranger

Across the River,* Alice Taylor

Next of Kin, Joanna Trollope

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

Blue Moon Bay, Lisa Wingate

*part of a series

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