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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 614 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,166,287 ratings — published 1960
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 533 times as southern)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,112,718 ratings — published 2009
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 374 times as southern)
avg rating 4.27 — 336,738 ratings — published 1987
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 369 times as southern)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,823,791 ratings — published 2018
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as southern)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,274,808 ratings — published 1936
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as southern)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,376,476 ratings — published 2001
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as southern)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,138 ratings — published 1994
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 125,387 ratings — published 1940
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as southern)
avg rating 3.72 — 196,441 ratings — published 1930
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,983 ratings — published 1929
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as southern)
avg rating 4.00 — 403,478 ratings — published 1937
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 222,225 ratings — published 1986
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as southern)
avg rating 4.28 — 777,326 ratings — published 1982
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 572,327 ratings — published 1996
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 187 times as southern)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,357,803 ratings — published 1885
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 184 times as southern)
avg rating 4.02 — 106,598 ratings — published 1984
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as southern)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,442 ratings — published 1992
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Audio CD)
by (shelved 160 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 90,220 ratings — published 2010
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 159 times as southern)
avg rating 3.78 — 361,371 ratings — published 2020
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as southern)
avg rating 3.81 — 40,559 ratings — published 1952
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as southern)
avg rating 3.31 — 297,714 ratings — published 2015
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as southern)
avg rating 3.89 — 310,701 ratings — published 1980
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,961 ratings — published 2017
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as southern)
avg rating 3.95 — 69,087 ratings — published 1932
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as southern)
avg rating 4.07 — 111,414 ratings — published 2007
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as southern)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,968 ratings — published 1955
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as southern)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,263 ratings — published 2010
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 340,910 ratings — published 2014
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as southern)
avg rating 4.00 — 50,049 ratings — published 1936
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 567,607 ratings — published 2001
The Peach Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,761 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as southern)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,675 ratings — published 1971
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as southern)
avg rating 4.24 — 314,905 ratings — published 2010
The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 64,912 ratings — published 2010
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as southern)
avg rating 3.89 — 253,190 ratings — published 1997
The Moviegoer (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as southern)
avg rating 3.64 — 32,265 ratings — published 1961
The Calamity Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as southern)
avg rating 4.60 — 538,469 ratings — published 2026
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as southern)
avg rating 4.46 — 928,538 ratings — published 2022
South of Broad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as southern)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,266 ratings — published 2009
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as southern)
avg rating 3.98 — 343,039 ratings — published 1947
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as southern)
avg rating 4.09 — 68,151 ratings — published 1946
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as southern)
avg rating 4.21 — 282,133 ratings — published 2019
Gods in Alabama (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,388 ratings — published 2005
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as southern)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,701 ratings — published 2011
Mudbound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as southern)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,485 ratings — published 2008
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as southern)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,703 ratings — published 2012
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as southern)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,050,944 ratings — published 1876
The Sugar Queen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 101 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 58,336 ratings — published 2008
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as southern)
avg rating 3.52 — 16,336 ratings — published 1972
Beach Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as southern)
avg rating 4.19 — 57,203 ratings — published 1995
“I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.”
― Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
― Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
“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
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