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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,110,210 ratings — published 1960
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,093,094 ratings — published 2009
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 193,926 ratings — published 1930
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,270,850 ratings — published 1936
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 201,274 ratings — published 1929
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 334,509 ratings — published 1987
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,372,095 ratings — published 2001
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,837 ratings — published 1940
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,037 ratings — published 1937
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 305,336 ratings — published 1994
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 68,434 ratings — published 1932
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 94 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,785,703 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,009 ratings — published 1982
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 307,814 ratings — published 1980
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,465 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 — 1,352,836 ratings — published 1885
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,566 ratings — published 1936
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,102 ratings — published 1992
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 571,520 ratings — published 1996
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 221,062 ratings — published 1986
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,410 ratings — published 1971
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,091 ratings — published 2010
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 39,893 ratings — published 1952
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,815 ratings — published 1946
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 106,278 ratings — published 1984
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 341,245 ratings — published 1947
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Audio CD)
by (shelved 62 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 88,983 ratings — published 2010
The Moviegoer (Vintage International)
by (shelved 57 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 31,981 ratings — published 1961
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,387 ratings — published 2008
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 152,082 ratings — published 2017
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 252,466 ratings — published 1997
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.52 — 16,169 ratings — published 1972
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,018 ratings — published 2011
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,936 ratings — published 1946
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.31 — 296,348 ratings — published 2015
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,366 ratings — published 2012
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,255 ratings — published 1960
Gods in Alabama (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,335 ratings — published 2005
Between, Georgia (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,340 ratings — published 2006
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 898,153 ratings — published 2022
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,044,123 ratings — published 1876
South of Broad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 51,976 ratings — published 2009
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.69 — 233,341 ratings — published 1899
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,600 ratings — published 1965
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 338,646 ratings — published 2014
The Great Santini (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 35,301 ratings — published 1976
Fair and Tender Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,217 ratings — published 1988
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,479 ratings — published 1951
The Peach Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,542 ratings — published 2011
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as southern-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 110,372 ratings — published 2007
“Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction.”
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“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
