Now’s a good time to read all the Mountain State classics you’ve been meaning to get around to, like Homer Hickam’s Rocket Boys (an anagram for October Sky, the movie it inspired) and Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven. Introduce the kids to an old friend, Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. And keep supporting local by browsing Taylor Books online bookstore for their bestsellers and regional reads!
Check out more of our picks below:
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Telltale Lilac Bush and other West Virginia Ghost Tales by Ruth Ann Musick
The Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina
Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home by Larry L. Rowe
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