American South


To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
Go Set a Watchman
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Secret Life of Bees
Gone With the Wind
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Color Purple
Their Eyes Were Watching God
As I Lay Dying
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Sound and the Fury
Mudbound
Fay by Larry BrownSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardMy Reading Life by Pat ConroyCherry by Mary KarrMilk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
21st Century Southern Literature
118 books — 9 voters
Brooms by Jasmine WallsThe Black Queen by Jumata EmillRamona Blue by Julie   MurphyShort Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco by K. IverThe Majestic Leo Marble by R.J. Lee
Queer Books Set in Mississippi
7 books — 4 voters

Big Freedia by Big FreediaI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldSexuality and Its Impact on History by Hunter S. JonesCreole by Sybil KeinBlack Life in Old New Orleans by Victor Block
New Orleans (nonfiction)
96 books — 34 voters

Changer de République Maintenant ! by philippe penciolelliReconstruction by Eric FonerBlack Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du BoisThe Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann WoodwardA Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
Civil War Reconstruction (nonfiction)
101 books — 38 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHaleFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Southern Goodness
324 books — 162 voters

Donald McCaig
Lurid tales are the South’s principal export. - Rhett Butler
Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

A.E. Samaan
Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.
A.E. Samaan, H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator

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