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 Great Wherever
All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
Should the Waters Take Us: A Novel
Pretty as a Peach
Judge Stone
The Storm
Road Trip
Paper Ghosts
All the Sinners Bleed
All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
The Foursome
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Summer State of Mind
The Mountains We Call Home (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #3)
Summers at the Saint
Dominion
The Witch's Orchard
Leave It Up To Love
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3)
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)
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
Out of the Silence by Marie TheodoreTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeLooking for Alaska by John  GreenThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddDumplin' by Julie   Murphy
YA Southern Fiction
196 books — 51 voters

The Raven Boys by Maggie StiefvaterThe Dream Thieves by Maggie StiefvaterThe Casquette Girls by Alys ArdenBeautiful Creatures by Kami GarciaCompulsion by Martina Boone
Southern Paranormal YAs
103 books — 110 voters
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Life by Jill Conner BrowneThe Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHaleThe Grizzard Sampler by Lewis Grizzard
Southern Humor and Humorists
108 books — 31 voters



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― Nancy B. Brewer, Carolina Rain

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