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Southern Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 614 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,998,694 ratings — published 1960
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 529 times as southern)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,056,057 ratings — published 2009
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 377 times as southern)
avg rating 4.27 — 330,341 ratings — published 1987
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 362 times as southern)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,708,961 ratings — published 2018
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as southern)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,264,152 ratings — published 1936
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as southern)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,363,040 ratings — published 2001
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as southern)
avg rating 3.92 — 299,709 ratings — published 1994
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,466 ratings — published 1940
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as southern)
avg rating 3.72 — 190,374 ratings — published 1930
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 198,592 ratings — published 1929
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 393,847 ratings — published 1937
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 218,943 ratings — published 1986
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as southern)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,724 ratings — published 1982
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 570,212 ratings — published 1996
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 187 times as southern)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346,573 ratings — published 1885
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 181 times as southern)
avg rating 4.02 — 105,809 ratings — published 1984
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as southern)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,419 ratings — published 1992
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Audio CD)
by (shelved 160 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 87,973 ratings — published 2010
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 155 times as southern)
avg rating 3.78 — 322,473 ratings — published 2020
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as southern)
avg rating 3.31 — 293,714 ratings — published 2015
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as southern)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,606 ratings — published 1952
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as southern)
avg rating 3.89 — 302,893 ratings — published 1980
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as southern)
avg rating 4.07 — 109,151 ratings — published 2007
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as southern)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,465 ratings — published 2017
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as southern)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,440 ratings — published 1932
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 563,328 ratings — published 2001
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as southern)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,681 ratings — published 2010
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as southern)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,527 ratings — published 1955
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 335,811 ratings — published 2014
The Peach Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,188 ratings — published 2011
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,643 ratings — published 1936
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as southern)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,126 ratings — published 1971
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as southern)
avg rating 4.24 — 306,986 ratings — published 2010
The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 64,177 ratings — published 2010
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as southern)
avg rating 3.89 — 251,245 ratings — published 1997
South of Broad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as southern)
avg rating 3.87 — 51,414 ratings — published 2009
The Moviegoer (Vintage International)
by (shelved 110 times as southern)
avg rating 3.64 — 31,409 ratings — published 1961
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as southern)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,203 ratings — published 1947
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as southern)
avg rating 4.21 — 270,303 ratings — published 2019
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as southern)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,232 ratings — published 1946
Gods in Alabama (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,196 ratings — published 2005
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as southern)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,042 ratings — published 2012
The Sugar Queen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 57,793 ratings — published 2008
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as southern)
avg rating 3.96 — 74,821 ratings — published 2011
Mudbound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as southern)
avg rating 4.06 — 70,780 ratings — published 2008
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as southern)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,031,778 ratings — published 1876
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as southern)
avg rating 4.46 — 847,456 ratings — published 2022
Beach Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as southern)
avg rating 4.19 — 55,646 ratings — published 1995
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as southern)
avg rating 3.52 — 15,828 ratings — published 1972
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as southern)
avg rating 4.40 — 742,945 ratings — published 2017
Adult Novels Depicting the Black Experience in the Jim Crow South by African-Americans
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“Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who assumes every body in earshot knows all about his parents and history and wants to hear an update about them at every opportunity. He looks young, but still manages to act 65.”
― The Sportswriter
― The Sportswriter
“You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?"
"Not at all," Cindy Lou answers. "Daddy freed him."
Ron's jaw almost hits the floor. His wine glass does.”
― Vampire Syndrome
"Not at all," Cindy Lou answers. "Daddy freed him."
Ron's jaw almost hits the floor. His wine glass does.”
― Vampire Syndrome
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