STORIESfrom
SMALL TOWN AMERICA
Several Classics
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson
The View From Pompey’s Head (1954) by Hamilton Basso
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) by John Cheever
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck
Our Town: a play in three acts (1957) by Thornton Wilder
Contemporary Authors
Mysteries
Thyme of Death (China Bayles series) by Susan Wittig Albert
A Typical American Town by John Maddox Roberts
Small Towns Can Be Murder by Connie Shelton
Short Stories
Love Life by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Loneliest Road in America by Roy Parvin
Homemade Humble Pie: and Other slices of Life
by Annette Gail Smith
Camaro City by Alan Sternberg
Other Fiction
A Southern Exposure by Alice Adams
South of Resurrection by Jonis Agee
Vinegar Hill by A.Manette Ansay
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
Honeysuckle, Creosote, and Trainsmoke
by William O. Cook
John’s Wife by Robert Coover
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Pawpaw Patch by Janice Daugharty
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Welcome to Higby by Mark Dunn
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
Shadow of Ashland by Terence M. Green
Grand Opening and Staggerford by Jon Hassler
Small Town by Shelby Hearon
At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years series) by Jan Karon
Lake Woebegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor
Sister North by Jim Kokoris
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts
The Village by David Mamet
Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle
War Memorials by Clint McCown
Texasville by Larry McMurtry
Goodnight, Nebraska by Tom McNeal
Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
Life Between Wars by Robert H. Patton
A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson
“–and Ladies of the Club” by Helen Santmyer
Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories by Jean Shepherd
World of Pies by Karen Stolz
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
She Flew the Coop: a novel concerning life, death, sex and
recipes in Limoges, Louisiana by Michael Lee West
Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
