367 books
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Southern Lit Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,017,631 ratings — published 1960
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,061,666 ratings — published 2009
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 190,931 ratings — published 1930
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,265,266 ratings — published 1936
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 199,035 ratings — published 1929
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 331,002 ratings — published 1987
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,364,653 ratings — published 2001
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 394,914 ratings — published 1937
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,866 ratings — published 1940
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 300,466 ratings — published 1994
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,586 ratings — published 1932
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 94 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,721,390 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 764,325 ratings — published 1982
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 303,696 ratings — published 1980
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 50,732 ratings — published 1955
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 77 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346,388 ratings — published 1885
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,778 ratings — published 1936
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,525 ratings — published 1992
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 570,442 ratings — published 1996
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 219,308 ratings — published 1986
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,185 ratings — published 1971
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,763 ratings — published 2010
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,850 ratings — published 1952
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 105,874 ratings — published 1984
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,718 ratings — published 1947
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,346 ratings — published 1946
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Audio CD)
by (shelved 62 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 88,071 ratings — published 2010
The Moviegoer (Vintage International)
by (shelved 57 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 31,501 ratings — published 1961
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,214 ratings — published 2008
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 251,476 ratings — published 1997
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,756 ratings — published 2017
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,016 ratings — published 2011
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.52 — 15,897 ratings — published 1972
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,644 ratings — published 1946
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.31 — 294,179 ratings — published 2015
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,081 ratings — published 2012
Gods in Alabama (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,220 ratings — published 2005
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,920 ratings — published 1960
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 231,040 ratings — published 1899
Between, Georgia (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,284 ratings — published 2006
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,033,746 ratings — published 1876
South of Broad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 51,508 ratings — published 2009
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,407 ratings — published 1965
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 855,983 ratings — published 2022
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,949 ratings — published 1951
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 336,305 ratings — published 2014
The Great Santini (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 35,044 ratings — published 1976
The Peach Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,251 ratings — published 2011
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 109,381 ratings — published 2007
Fair and Tender Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,157 ratings — published 1988
“There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you stop telling it. I believe I'll stop telling this one here.”
― The Last Ballad
― The Last Ballad
“Them dandelion wishes float and float for miles hoping they might get lucky and find a place to root.”
― False Dandelions
― False Dandelions










