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Southern Writers Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,976,982 ratings — published 1960
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.86 — 198,046 ratings — published 1929
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,894 ratings — published 1940
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.52 — 15,766 ratings — published 1972
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,262,625 ratings — published 1936
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,271 ratings — published 1955
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,049,222 ratings — published 2009
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.72 — 189,640 ratings — published 1930
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,424 ratings — published 1952
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,278 ratings — published 1932
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.26 — 218,499 ratings — published 1986
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,072 ratings — published 1971
The Moviegoer (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.64 — 31,302 ratings — published 1961
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,096 ratings — published 1946
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,361,075 ratings — published 2001
Beach Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.19 — 55,433 ratings — published 1995
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,751 ratings — published 1951
Look Homeward, Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,906 ratings — published 1929
Delta Wedding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,866 ratings — published 1946
The Lords of Discipline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.35 — 30,342 ratings — published 1980
Ellen Foster (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.79 — 32,227 ratings — published 1987
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 251,032 ratings — published 1997
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.14 — 48,262 ratings — published 1992
The Ponder Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,291 ratings — published 1954
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,504 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 301,930 ratings — published 1980
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.28 — 329,598 ratings — published 1987
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,104 ratings — published 2017
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.31 — 293,144 ratings — published 2015
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.99 — 392,442 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.28 — 760,747 ratings — published 1982
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.09 — 740,295 ratings — published 1966
A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.12 — 829,377 ratings — published 1989
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.46 — 836,663 ratings — published 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,694,012 ratings — published 2018
The Water Is Wide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.17 — 27,246 ratings — published 1972
Tobacco Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.71 — 16,002 ratings — published 1932
A Summons to Memphis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,890 ratings — published 1986
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,589 ratings — published 2010
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.98 — 337,462 ratings — published 1947
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.86 — 569,892 ratings — published 1996
All Over But the Shoutin' (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,631 ratings — published 1997
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,159 ratings — published 2008
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.02 — 105,731 ratings — published 1984
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,783 ratings — published 1960
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,305 ratings — published 1965
Father and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,979 ratings — published 1996
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,539 ratings — published 1946
The Great Santini (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.16 — 34,933 ratings — published 1976
Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.81 — 56,683 ratings — published 1973
“I want you to learn how to do when you didn’t shoot. It’s after the chance for the bear or the deer has done already come and gone that men and dogs get killed.”
― The Bear
― The Bear
“While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the story features come tumbling out, the revision is the end of the joy ride. We pull on the gloves and sort of poke around inside the body. Is that a tumor? Will that limb need amputation? I nearly second-guessed myself into heart failure while learning to self-edit.”
― The Pirate Queen
― The Pirate Queen
