Small town books
Stories set in small towns, where everyone knows everyone and old secrets never quite go away. George Eliot's Middlemarch paints a whole English provincial community, Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead follows a boy through Appalachian poverty, and Fredrik Backman's Anxious People turns a failed bank robbery into a portrait of a Swedish town. Close neighbours shape every choice in these books.
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- 1Demon Copperhead
8.88.8 / 10 - 2To Kill a Mockingbird
8.48.4 / 10 - 3Anxious People
8.48.4 / 10 - 4The Help
8.48.4 / 10 - 5How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
8.48.4 / 10 - 6The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
8.48.4 / 10 - 7Reaper Man
8.38.3 / 10 - 8Remarkably Bright Creatures
8.38.3 / 10 - 9It
8.28.2 / 10 - 10Funny Story
8.28.2 / 10 - 11All My Rage
8.28.2 / 10 - 12Where the Crawdads Sing
8.28.2 / 10 - 13Middlemarch
8.28.2 / 10 - 14Book Lovers
8.18.1 / 10 - 15Anne of Avonlea
8.18.1 / 10 - 16In Cold Blood
8.18.1 / 10 - 17Wild Sign
8.18.1 / 10 - 18Small Things Like These
8.18.1 / 10 - 19Storm Cursed
8.18.1 / 10 - 20Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
8.08.0 / 10 - 21Odd Thomas
8.08.0 / 10 - 22The Raven Boys
8.08.0 / 10 - 23The Blue Castle
8.08.0 / 10 - 24Snake-Eater
8.08.0 / 10 - 25Seascraper
8.08.0 / 10 - 26One Hundred Years of Solitude
8.08.0 / 10 - 27The Innocent Man
8.08.0 / 10 - 28Sounds Like Love
8.08.0 / 10 - 29Because of Winn-Dixie
8.08.0 / 10 - 30Dime Store Magic
7.97.9 / 10