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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Where the Wildflowers Grow
Kin
Books & Bewitchment (Arcadia Falls, #1)
The Hadacol Boogie (Dave Robicheaux, #25)
The Storm
The Seven Daughters of Dupree
Burn Down Master's House
Women of a Promiscuous Nature
Judge Stone
The Storm
The Lies They Told
All the Sinners Bleed
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Booked for Murder (An Old Juniper Bookstore Mystery, #1)
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3)
The Hadacol Boogie (Dave Robicheaux, #25)
Dominion
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
Women of a Promiscuous Nature
The Forget-Me-Not Library
Summers at the Saint
The Jackal's Mistress
When the Jessamine Grows
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Regional Grit Lit
124 books — 89 voters
Beneath This Mask by Meghan MarchPerfect Together by Kristen AshleyDarkness Awakened by Katie ReusMidnight Soul by Kristen AshleyMoonlight Scandals by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Romance in or near New Orleans
61 books — 1 voter

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
835 books — 747 voters
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Paranormal YA set in Louisiana
64 books — 70 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Prince of Tides
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Color Purple
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)

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