South


To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Secret Life of Bees
Gone With the Wind
The Sound and the Fury
Go Set a Watchman
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
As I Lay Dying
The Color Purple
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
Sing, Unburied, Sing
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeLowcountry Boil by Susan M. BoyerThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Neon Rain by James Lee BurkeBootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
Best Southern Mysteries
209 books — 121 voters
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayTuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbittA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareDandelion Wine by Ray BradburyMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Summer of Speculative Reading
46 books — 13 voters

Peaches by Jodi Lynn AndersonThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady HendrixThe Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison AllenGeorgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin BrownAin't She a Peach by Molly Harper
Peaches
70 books — 16 voters

The Terror by Dan SimmonsAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDark Matter by Michelle PaverWho Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
Polar Horror
61 books — 103 voters
This Little Light of Mine by Kay MillsHands on the Freedom Plow by Faith S. HolsaertBayard Rustin by Jervis AndersonFreedom Riders by Raymond ArsenaultParting the Waters by Taylor Branch
Julian Bond refers to these books
50 books — 2 voters

Susan Sontag
Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor ...more
Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover

Colson Whitehead
He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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