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	Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter, Virginia Spencer Carr (Editor), Barbara Thompson (Contributor) 3.45 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery by John Gregory Brown (Goodreads Author), Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1994 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918–1939 by Richard Godden (editor), Andrew Warnes (Contributor), Clive Webb (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Citizen-Scholar: Essays in Honor of Walter Edgar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bob Brinkmeyer and 28 other people liked switterbug (Betsey)'s review of The Five Wounds: "When it comes to dysfunctional family drama, there is no shortage of novels. They often merge and blur for me, many devoid of distinction. But then there’s Kirstin Valdez Quade, who created an imaginative, exciting, and richly textured story that con" Read more of this review »
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Bob Brinkmeyer and 25 other people liked Quo's review of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary: "Simon Winchester is an exceedingly gifted story teller, as well as a raconteur if you will, someone who occasionally adds a colorful flourish to some of the characters he has unearthed, people long lost within the farther shadows of history but broug" Read more of this review »
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Bob Brinkmeyer and 30 other people liked Jan-Maat's review of The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness & the Love of Words: "Moderately entertaining and a good story. Since this well to do prisoner was allowed an extensive library and wide ranging access to books, it is interesting how the influence of class extended into the Victorian prison system. Books like this, recogn" Read more of this review »
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4.5 stars This is a dense and dark novel. Serious, difficult fiction. Not for the faint of heart or the impatient. You can’t breeze through The Melancholy of Resistance. The novel explores the life of a small Hungarian town coming undone, as seen thro ...more
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Bob Brinkmeyer and 370 other people liked Gaurav Sagar's review of Satantango: "“Far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing.” -W. G. Sebald. "In that case, I’ll miss the thing by waiting for it.” - Franz Kafka. source As I step out of the world of Krasznahorkai, I feel a deep hollowness inside my heart as if the" Read more of this review »
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