Novels with fiddlers (Donnybrook Fair)

If you're a reader and a fiddler, here are some recommendations for books from children's books to YA and general fiction that feature fiddlers and fiddling. Some of these books have even been known to inspire folks to pick up the fiddle!

Kids books:
Mole music
Just Enough and Not Too Much
Fiddling Sam
Nina’s Waltz
A Fiddle for Angus

YA or chapter books: 
The New Policemen
Little House on the Prairie
A Girl of the Limberlost
Fiddle Fever

Thriller/Detective:
Violin conspiracy
An Equal Music
As I walked Out One Midsummer Morning
The Busker
The Fifth String
Fiddle Game
Keeper of Secrets
The Gentle Care for Broken Thing

War:
Long March Home
Simon the Fiddler
Cold Mountain
Master & Commander

South/Mountain Culture:
Fiddler’s Ghost
The Devil’s Dream
The Insolent Breed
The Grapes of Wrath
Refuge by Dot Jackson

Healing:
Come and Go, Molly Snow
Soldier's Joy
Paddy on the Hardwood

Romance:
Carnal Innocence
Fiddler’s Dream
The Devil and Preston Black

Our tune this week is the Irish jig Donnybrook Fair.

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