The South


To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
Where the Crawdads Sing
Gone With the Wind
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Secret Life of Bees
Their Eyes Were Watching God
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
The Color Purple
Go Set a Watchman
The Underground Railroad
The Prince of Tides
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettCountry Ham by Steve CoomesThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Historical Fiction - The American South
375 books — 127 voters
Vinyl Hayride by Paul KingsburyThe Ozarks by George Oxford MillerLoretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta LynnLost Highway by Peter GuralnickHe Walks with Me by David                      ...
Deep In Some Arbitrary Holler
283 books — 6 voters

Secrets Never Lie by R.R. McDonald"Rich Georgian Strangely Shot" by Tom HughesHanging the Peachtree Bandit by Tom HughesWicked Atlanta by Laurel-Ann DooleyThe Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene
Atlanta History and True Crime
8 books — 3 voters
Written on His Skin by Simone StarkLucky's Lady by Tami HoagPoison Princess by Kresley ColeTall, Dark, and Cajun by Sandra HillThe Cajun Cowboy by Sandra Hill
Cajun Heroes in Romance
39 books — 43 voters

Margaret Mitchell
“ Why had he gone, stepping off into the dark, into the war, into a Cause that was lost, into a world that was mad? Why had he gone, Rhett who loved the pleasures of women and liquor, the comfort of good food and soft beds, the feel of fine linen and good leather, who hated the South and jeered at the fools who fought for it? Now he had set his varnished boots upon a bitter road where hunger tramped with tireless stride and wounds and weariness and heartbreak ran like yelping wolves. And the end o ...more ”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind

Michael Shaara
“ Southern women like their men religious and a little mad. ”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

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