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

New Releases Tagged "Southern"

The Forget-Me-Not Library
I'll Make a Spectacle of You
Overdue
Crafting for Sinners
The Second Story Bookshop
My Beloved (Mitford Years, #15)
Theo of Golden
Forget Me Not
All the Sinners Bleed
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3)
When the Jessamine Grows
Dominion
The Forget-Me-Not Library
The Book of Lost Friends
My Beloved (Mitford Years, #15)
Lightning in a Mason Jar
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
The Second Story Bookshop
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss
The Witch's Orchard
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

The Casquette Girls by Alys ArdenMina and the Undead by Amy McCawThe Beautiful by Renée AhdiehRuined by Paula MorrisLocked In Time by Lois Duncan
Paranormal YA set in Louisiana
64 books — 69 voters

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockThe Road by Cormac McCarthyWinter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Regional Grit Lit
120 books — 87 voters
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
454 books — 280 voters

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
The Prince of Tides
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Color Purple
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)

Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's how you're brought up -- with Southerners, family (blood kin or not) is sacred; you respect others and are polite nearly to a fault; you always know your place but are fierce about your beliefs. And food along with college football -- is darn near a religion. ...more
Jan Norris

Richard Ford
Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who assumes every body in earshot knows all about his parents and history and wants to hear an update about them at every opportunity. He looks young, but still manages to act 65.
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

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Reckon Readers Reckon Readers explores the best books the South has to offer.
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