The South


To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
Gone With the Wind
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Secret Life of Bees
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Their Eyes Were Watching God
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
The Color Purple
Go Set a Watchman
The Underground Railroad
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage Departures)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Sing, Unburied, Sing
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
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
37 books — 43 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
7 books — 3 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

Maggie Thrash
You might assume my father is a Republican because he's so old-fashioned. But actually he's a Democrat. In the South, the difference is that Democrats go bird hunting while Republicans go deer hunting. ...more
Maggie Thrash, Lost Soul, Be at Peace

Alyssa Rosenheck
We don’t pretend the South has reconciled itself—this is a land that has been built by and taken from enslaved people. We are committed to having the uncomfortable discussions, telling the truth, and letting our curiosity fuel questions, in the name of moving civil liberties, gender equality, and race relations forward. I am merely a photographer and storyteller, but my goal is to shine light on the idea that art and creativity reveal that we are far more alike than different.
Alyssa Rosenheck, The New Southern Style: The Interiors of a Lifestyle and Design Movement

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This group is dedicated to books and scholarship related to all periods of the American South.
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Donna Tartt For readers who, like me, love both of Donna Tartt's novels, The Secret History (1992) and The L…more
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USA Geography Challenge Can you read a book set in each of the fifty states? This is a self paced challenge for readers …more
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