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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,149,352 ratings — published 1960
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,107,258 ratings — published 2009
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 195,635 ratings — published 1930
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,486 ratings — published 1929
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,273,577 ratings — published 1936
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 336,051 ratings — published 1987
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,375,229 ratings — published 2001
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,882 ratings — published 1940
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,283 ratings — published 1937
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,309 ratings — published 1994
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,944 ratings — published 1932
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 94 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,813,014 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 775,664 ratings — published 1982
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,800 ratings — published 1955
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 309,856 ratings — published 1980
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,897 ratings — published 1936
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 77 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,356,465 ratings — published 1885
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,349 ratings — published 1992
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 572,143 ratings — published 1996
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 221,886 ratings — published 1986
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,567 ratings — published 1971
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 40,347 ratings — published 1952
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,205 ratings — published 2010
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 68,051 ratings — published 1946
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 106,511 ratings — published 1984
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 342,442 ratings — published 1947
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Audio CD)
by (shelved 62 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 89,802 ratings — published 2010
The Moviegoer (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 32,177 ratings — published 1961
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,480 ratings — published 2008
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,640 ratings — published 2017
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,523 ratings — published 2011
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 252,949 ratings — published 1997
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.52 — 16,285 ratings — published 1972
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,055 ratings — published 1946
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.31 — 297,291 ratings — published 2015
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,635 ratings — published 2012
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,425 ratings — published 1960
Gods in Alabama (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,377 ratings — published 2005
Between, Georgia (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,370 ratings — published 2006
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 918,989 ratings — published 2022
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,048,892 ratings — published 1876
South of Broad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,191 ratings — published 2009
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 234,570 ratings — published 1899
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,702 ratings — published 1965
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 340,187 ratings — published 2014
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 111,112 ratings — published 2007
The Great Santini (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 35,424 ratings — published 1976
Fair and Tender Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,248 ratings — published 1988
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,708 ratings — published 1951
The Peach Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,698 ratings — published 2011
“Although I wasn't there to bear witness, I imagine Lot's wife scanned the masses for her children. Perhaps she sought out the curves of their mouths and the shapes of their faces, trying to memorize her children, grown now. She looked back as I and any strong, loving mother would have done.”
― Dogwood Blues
― Dogwood Blues
“I have learn'd Poppy that people come an' go. Only Jesus is your true friend. And even He had Judas. Git rid of your Judas. Like your sister. Marc has lost his mind. Buying one gift for her an' anoth'r for Cherie. That boy bet'r git himself home. There's ain't no blessing in sin, I tell ya. The devil roams, he prowls Poppy and a man's heart is fertile territory.”
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