To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorRaney by Clyde EdgertonFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Great Books of Southern Fiction
379 books — 440 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerMiddlemarch by George EliotAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Most Difficult Novels
589 books — 2,044 voters

The Daughter of Time by Josephine TeyCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Best Historical Mystery
2,088 books — 4,548 voters
The Swamp Fox, Francis Marion by Noel B. GersonJohnny Tremain by Esther ForbesCelia Garth by Gwen BristowDrums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. EdmondsBen & Me by Robert Lawson
American Revolutionary War Fiction
154 books — 279 voters