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 Storm
The Seven Daughters of Dupree
Women of a Promiscuous Nature
Burn Down Master's House
Theo of Golden
The Storm
The Lies They Told
All the Sinners Bleed
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Dominion
The Forget-Me-Not Library
The Jackal's Mistress
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3)
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
Summers at the Saint
My Beloved (Mitford Years, #15)
Lightning in a Mason Jar
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)
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
Daddy's Game by Normandie AllemanDaddy Morebucks by Normandie AllemanSilent We Stood by Henry ChappellKinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky FriedmanDallas Noir by David Hale Smith
Books Set In Dallas
32 books — 29 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
71 books — 16 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
102 books — 109 voters



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