The WSO research library has many books covering Appalachian topics.
- A Look Into Appalachia
- American Commonwealths: Kentucky A Pioneer Commonwealth Edited by Scudder, Horace E. 1885
- Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life and Culture Published by Berea College 1993
- Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 1985 Vol.18 #3 1985
- Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission Vol. 9 #6 Bicentennial Issue 1976
- Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer by Speer, Jean Haskell 1984
- The Celebration of Kentucky: People, Places and Events in Kentucky Counties Edited by Steele, Keith R. 1992
- A Cumberland Gap Area Guide Book: Open Sesame by Shattuck, Tom N. 1992
- Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky by Pearce, John Ed 1994
- Exploring The Frontier of the Future: How Kentucky Will Live, Learn and Work Edited by: Childress, Michael T.; Sebastian, Billie M.; Schirmer, Peter: Smith-Mello, Michal 1996
- Family Keepsakes by Niemeyer, Shirley 1982
- The Foxfire Book Edited by Wigginton, Eliot 1972
- Foxfire 5 Edited by Wigginton, Eliot 1979
- Gateway: Dr. Thomas Walker and the Opening of Kentucky by Burns, David M. 2000
- Kentucky Bicentennial: The Celebration 1792-1992 by KY Bicentennial Commission1992
- Kentucky: Decades of Discord 1865-1900 by Tapp, Hambleton and Klotter, James C. 1077
- The Kentucky Encyclopedia Edited by Kleber, John E.1992
- Kentucky's Governors 1792-1985 Edited by Harrison, Lowell H. 1985
- Kentucky: Land of Contrast by Clark, Thomas C. 1968
- Kentucky Lives: The Bluegrass State Who's Who by Tapp, Hambleton 1996
- The Kentucky Story: A Teacher's Manual by Van Hook, Joseph O. and Gillenwater, Cornelia 1960
- Military History of Kentucky by Worker of the Federal Writers Project of WPA 1939
- The Mountain Moments: Portraits of life in Appalachia, Vol. I by Crawford, Thelma R.
- A New History of Kentucky by Harrison, Lowell and Klotter, James C. 1997
- Our Kentucky: A Study of the Bluegrass State Edited by Klotter, James C. 1992
- The Pine Mountain Story: 1913-1980 by Pine Mountain Settlement School 1980
- Stinking Creek by Fetterman, John 1967 (2 Copies of this book are available)
- Wilderness Road by Kincaid, Robert L. 1966
- The WPA Guide to Kentucky Edited by Simon, F. Kevin1996