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The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,110,210 ratings — published 2009
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,765 ratings — published 2017
A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.13 — 835,434 ratings — published 1989
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,241 ratings — published 2010
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.72 — 196,078 ratings — published 1930
Mudbound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,447 ratings — published 2008
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,616 ratings — published 2011
The Calamity Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.61 — 510,353 ratings — published 2026
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,738 ratings — published 1929
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,357,137 ratings — published 1885
The Appeal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.66 — 64,923 ratings — published 2008
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.95 — 69,026 ratings — published 1932
The Summons (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.74 — 86,296 ratings — published 2002
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,024 ratings — published 2015
Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.11 — 144,569 ratings — published 2013
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 34 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.91 — 133,071 ratings — published 1976
The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)
by (shelved 33 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.23 — 43,040 ratings — published 1999
Ford County (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.74 — 30,134 ratings — published 2008
Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.02 — 247,460 ratings — published 2003
The Little Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.48 — 88,120 ratings — published 2002
The Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,168 ratings — published 2021
The Last Juror (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.97 — 112,190 ratings — published 2004
Whistling Past the Graveyard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.11 — 46,217 ratings — published 2013
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,049,981 ratings — published 1876
The Chamber (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.86 — 149,152 ratings — published 1994
Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.30 — 30,401 ratings — published 2013
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.41 — 613,723 ratings — published 2024
The Boys from Biloxi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.04 — 98,797 ratings — published 2022
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,113 ratings — published 2020
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,988 ratings — published 1936
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.52 — 16,317 ratings — published 1972
The Affair (Jack Reacher, #16)
by (shelved 24 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.16 — 113,434 ratings — published 2011
Cemetery Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,453 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,048,246 ratings — published 2017
Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
by (shelved 22 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.17 — 42,478 ratings — published 2014
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,021 ratings — published 1997
Deep South (Anna Pigeon, #8)
by (shelved 22 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,528 ratings — published 2000
Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2)
by (shelved 21 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,613 ratings — published 2005
A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.29 — 101,249 ratings — published 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.48 — 123,151 ratings — published 2010
The Tilted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,173 ratings — published 2013
Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks #1)
by (shelved 18 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,019 ratings — published 2010
Heavy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.46 — 46,938 ratings — published 2018
The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3)
by (shelved 18 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.13 — 23,710 ratings — published 2009
Tishomingo Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.72 — 10,058 ratings — published 2002
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,896 ratings — published 2024
The Girls in the Stilt House (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,702 ratings — published 2021
Hunting Season (Anna Pigeon, #10)
by (shelved 17 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,516 ratings — published 2002
A Spark of Light (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as mississippi)
avg rating 3.75 — 172,161 ratings — published 2018
The Runaway Jury (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mississippi)
avg rating 4.03 — 319,117 ratings — published 1996
“The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks.”
― A Painted House
― A Painted House
“A kind of affectionate racism prevailed among the delta gentry, they had kind, paternalistic feelings toward black people and a genuine appreciation for black culture, but they didn’t want a black man dating their daughters or sitting down to eat dinner at their table, because that wasn’t the way things were done or meant to be.”
― Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
― Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
