Southern Writers


To Kill a Mockingbird
The Sound and the Fury
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Optimist's Daughter
Gone With the Wind
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
The Help
As I Lay Dying
Wise Blood
Light in August
The Prince of Tides
The Complete Stories
The Moviegoer
All the King's Men
The Secret Life of Bees
Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor  BrownRednecks by Taylor  BrownAnimal Quintet by Colin DayanThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddPride of Eden by Taylor  Brown
Books by Georgia Authors
179 books — 33 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsLight in August by William FaulknerThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Mississippi Writers - Best 100 books by
305 books — 115 voters

Lillian Hellman
Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it. ...more
Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes

Patricia Hickman
Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in the eyes of every person I meet. This awareness informs the flesh of my stories. Grief has been an odd companion, at first a terror, but now I am all the better having accepted it for its intrinsic worth. ...more
Patricia Hickman, The Pirate Queen

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