Southern

Southern literature (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region. Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one’s role within it, a sense of justice, the region's dominant religion (Christianity) and the burdens/rewards religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, a sense of social class and place, and the use of the Southern dialect. ...more

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The Great Wherever
All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
Should the Waters Take Us: A Novel
Pretty as a Peach
Judge Stone
Road Trip
All the Sinners Bleed
The Storm
The Foursome
All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Falling for Peachtree Bluff (Peachtree Bluff #5)
Summer State of Mind
The Mountains We Call Home (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #3)
Dominion
Summers at the Saint
The Witch's Orchard
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3)
The Women of Oak Ridge
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Where the Crawdads Sing
Gone With the Wind
The Secret Life of Bees
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Prince of Tides
The Color Purple
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Best 1800s Historical Fiction
509 books — 299 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Gothic Literature
356 books — 525 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
77 books — 19 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Great Books of Southern Fiction
391 books — 446 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Books
843 books — 751 voters


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