Former President Donald Trump has chosen Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his vice presidential running mate. Vance is the author of the 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy about his youth in Appalachia and the social and socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio. Just a day after the announcement, holds on the title have started to soar. While you wait to get a copy, here are some other titles that might interest you.
Bageant, Joe. Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War
Bruder, Jessica. Nomadland: Surviving American in the Twenty-first Century
Chambers, Cassie. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Corcoran, Jonathan. No Son of Mine
Griswold, Eliza. Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Harkins, Anthony. Appalachian Reckoning
Isenberg, Nancy. White Trash: the 400-year Untold History of Class in America
Liftig, Anya. Holler Rat
Lingan, John. Homeplace: a Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-tonk
McClanahan, Scott. Crapalachia: a Biography of a Place
McGaha, Jennifer. Flat Broke with Two Goats: a Memoir
Potts, Monica. The Forgotten Girls
Smarsh, Sarah. Heartland: a Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Trubek, Anne. Voices from the Rust Belt
Silva, Jennifer M. We’re Still Here: Pain and Pollitics in the Heart of America
Snyder, Todd. 12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym: Boxing, and Manhood in Appalachia