Educated

Tara Westover

2018 ★ 4.5

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

1874 ★ 3.7

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Korey Jackson, William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

2009 ★ 4.4

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

1891 ★ 4.1

Quarto de Despejo

Carolina Maria de Jesus

1962 ★ 4.4

Fa Maru a Pula a Kokoana Setswana

Bessie Head

1970

The devil all the time

Donald Ray Pollock

2011 ★ 4.3

Let us now praise famous men

Walker Evans, James Agee

1941

All over but the shoutin'

Rick Bragg

1997 ★ 3.3

The harvest of sorrow

Robert Conquest

1986

The Unsettling of America

Wendell Berry

1977

Castle Rackrent

Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth

1903

A Collector of Treasures

Bessie Head

1992

Populism

Margaret Canovan

1981

The Art of Not Being Governed

James C. Scott

2009

Wake in Fright (Film Ink)

Josep Sampere, Pedro Donoso, Kenneth Cook

1962

Life in a medieval village

Frances Gies

1990 ★ 4.0

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Bryan Mealer

2010

Icons of England

Bill Bryson

2010

Postcards

Annie Proulx

1992 ★ 4.0

Ancient futures

Helena Norberg-Hodge

1991

The remembered village

M. N. Srinivas

1976

A place to call home

Deborah Smith

1997

Irish Folk Ways

E. Estyn Evans

1957

The Other Side of the Bridge

Mary Lawson

2006

Peasant economics

Ellis, Frank

1993

Testimony

Victor Montejo

1987

Captain Swing

Eric Hobsbawm, George Rudé, Marísa González de Oleaga et al.

1968

The Purple Violet of Oshaantu

Neshani Andreas

2001

An hour before daylight

Jimmy Carter

2001