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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,863,621 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 195,711 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 186,597 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 727,474 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,707 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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4.16 avg rating — 49,643 ratings
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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3.99 avg rating — 119,198 ratings
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Wise Blood
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3.82 avg rating — 37,659 ratings
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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3.98 avg rating — 334,083 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 489,291 ratings
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Light in August
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3.94 avg rating — 66,655 ratings
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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4.15 avg rating — 218,848 ratings
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The Kestrel Waters
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4.28 avg rating — 179 ratings
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 297,439 ratings
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Child of God
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3.82 avg rating — 55,116 ratings
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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
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4.06 avg rating — 26,225 ratings
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Winter's Bone
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3.87 avg rating — 40,062 ratings
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Wicked Temper
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3.78 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
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4.22 avg rating — 22,087 ratings
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Deliverance
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3.89 avg rating — 33,926 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
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3.99 avg rating — 47,914 ratings
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Outer Dark
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3.89 avg rating — 25,496 ratings
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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4.06 avg rating — 64,349 ratings
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
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3.75 avg rating — 17,674 ratings
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The Ballad of the Sad Café
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3.78 avg rating — 26,299 ratings
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The Complete Stories
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4.38 avg rating — 40,767 ratings
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Twilight
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3.95 avg rating — 3,073 ratings
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Suttree
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4.21 avg rating — 28,136 ratings
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
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3.83 avg rating — 46,266 ratings
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The Violent Bear It Away
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4.07 avg rating — 15,491 ratings
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The Devil All the Time
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4.14 avg rating — 41,084 ratings
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Tobacco Road
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3.71 avg rating — 15,879 ratings
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Red Lory
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3.46 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Sanctuary
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3.63 avg rating — 14,805 ratings
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A Feast of Snakes
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4.02 avg rating — 5,238 ratings
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Provinces of Night
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4.20 avg rating — 2,929 ratings
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Joe
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4.17 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
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The Collected Stories
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4.20 avg rating — 8,326 ratings
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Some Small Magic: One boy’s search for his father and the home he’s always longer for
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3.91 avg rating — 319 ratings
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I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
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4.31 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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Serena
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3.55 avg rating — 36,997 ratings
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Collected Stories
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4.24 avg rating — 7,880 ratings
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Collected Stories
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4.31 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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Steal Away Home
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3.52 avg rating — 363 ratings
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The Little Friend
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3.48 avg rating — 82,158 ratings
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There Will Be Stars
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3.78 avg rating — 340 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,335,582 ratings
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The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
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3.99 avg rating — 6,426 ratings
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The Long Home
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4.03 avg rating — 2,787 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 270,168 ratings
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Swamplandia!
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3.28 avg rating — 60,141 ratings
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The Gospel Singer
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4.22 avg rating — 1,967 ratings
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Tomato Red
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3.80 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
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This Dark Road to Mercy
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3.79 avg rating — 9,727 ratings
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The Wretched and Undone
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4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Compulsion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 3,277 ratings
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Gone South
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3.99 avg rating — 7,865 ratings
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The Bottoms
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4.19 avg rating — 9,829 ratings
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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
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4.34 avg rating — 2,972 ratings
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Bootlicker
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4.26 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Prince of Tides
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4.26 avg rating — 216,327 ratings
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Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South
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4.18 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Knockout Artist
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3.90 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
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3.84 avg rating — 7,349 ratings
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Give Us a Kiss
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3.94 avg rating — 1,522 ratings
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The Orchard Keeper
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3.51 avg rating — 13,012 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,016,557 ratings
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The Lords of Discipline
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4.34 avg rating — 30,072 ratings
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Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand
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3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Elementals
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3.98 avg rating — 23,025 ratings
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All the King's Men
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4.09 avg rating — 66,562 ratings
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So Many Things To Bury
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4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Curse of Crow Hollow
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3.63 avg rating — 893 ratings
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The Devil Walks in Mattingly
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3.66 avg rating — 456 ratings
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The Keepers of the House
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4.01 avg rating — 13,802 ratings
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Galveston
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3.75 avg rating — 16,902 ratings
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My Sunshine Away
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3.57 avg rating — 18,741 ratings
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The Death of Sweet Mister
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3.90 avg rating — 3,520 ratings
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And the Ass Saw the Angel
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3.84 avg rating — 11,270 ratings
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
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3.93 avg rating — 4,554 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,255,633 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 648,755 ratings
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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4.28 avg rating — 326,221 ratings
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The Great Santini
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4.16 avg rating — 34,656 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 148,442 ratings
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In the Heart of the Dark Wood
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3.69 avg rating — 451 ratings
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In the Pines
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4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Secret Sense of Wildflower (Wildflower #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 1,770 ratings
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Music of the Swamp
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4.08 avg rating — 674 ratings
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The Optimist's Daughter
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3.52 avg rating — 15,489 ratings
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Body
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3.89 avg rating — 1,402 ratings
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The Water Is Wide
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4.17 avg rating — 26,917 ratings
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Scar Lover
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3.75 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Go Down, Moses
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3.93 avg rating — 10,574 ratings
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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3.85 avg rating — 88,476 ratings
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The Yearling
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4.04 avg rating — 30,490 ratings
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The Portable Poe
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4.28 avg rating — 2,220 ratings
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Beach Music
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4.19 avg rating — 54,735 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 750,791 ratings
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Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature
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4.07 avg rating — 87 ratings
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I also think Robert Penn Warren's "The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories" would be a solid addition.