Kentucky -- Fiction books

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

A Romance of Billy‑Goat Hill is a regional novel set in a lush Kentucky spring, where the old Carsey mansion,…

The wheel of earth

Helga Sandburg

The Wheel of Earth is a piece of mid‑century fiction that centers on the daily rhythms of a Kentucky farm,…

Mr. Opp

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

The novel opens on a languid Kentucky riverbank where Jimmy Fallows, a stout‑bodied ferryman, waits for the…

The Roof Tree

Charles Neville Buck

The Roof Tree is a regional drama set in the rugged borderlands of Kentucky and Virginia, where a violent…

Aunt Jane of Kentucky

Eliza Calvert Hall

The novel is a domestic tale set in rural Kentucky, narrated through the eyes of a young visitor who finds…

Shawn of Skarrow

James Tandy Ellis

The novel is a regional coming‑of‑age tale set in rural Kentucky, following the teenage Shawn as he moves…

The Crossing

Winston Churchill

The Tempering

Charles Neville Buck

A Knight of the Cumberland

John Fox, Jr.

Ella Barnwell: A historical romance of border life

Emerson Bennett

Why Joan?

Eleanor Mercein Kelly

Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky

William Gilmore Simms

Kildares of Storm

Eleanor Mercein Kelly

Sunlight Patch

Credo Fitch Harris

The Law of Hemlock Mountain

Hugh Lundsford

Autobiography of a Female Slave

Martha Griffith Browne

The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields

James Lane Allen

Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War

John Fox, Jr.

The Last Stetson

John Fox, Jr.

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

The Love Story of Abner Stone

Edwin Carlile Litsey

Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant

Mathew Joseph Holt

In Old Kentucky

Marshall, Edward; Dazey, Charles Turner

A Pagan of the Hills

Charles Neville Buck