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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,154,168 ratings — published 1960
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,632 ratings — published 1929
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.99 — 125,024 ratings — published 1940
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.52 — 16,304 ratings — published 1972
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,273,956 ratings — published 1936
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.72 — 195,875 ratings — published 1930
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,845 ratings — published 1955
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,108,957 ratings — published 2009
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.81 — 40,409 ratings — published 1952
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,992 ratings — published 1932
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.26 — 221,996 ratings — published 1986
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,607 ratings — published 1971
The Moviegoer (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.64 — 32,207 ratings — published 1961
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.09 — 68,078 ratings — published 1946
Delta Wedding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,950 ratings — published 1946
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,375,569 ratings — published 2001
Beach Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.19 — 57,089 ratings — published 1995
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,727 ratings — published 1951
Look Homeward, Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,142 ratings — published 1929
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,378 ratings — published 1992
The Lords of Discipline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.35 — 30,901 ratings — published 1980
Ellen Foster (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.79 — 32,732 ratings — published 1987
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 253,017 ratings — published 1997
The Ponder Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,357 ratings — published 1954
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,940 ratings — published 1936
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 310,088 ratings — published 1980
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.27 — 336,239 ratings — published 1987
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,700 ratings — published 2017
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.31 — 297,414 ratings — published 2015
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,619 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,120 ratings — published 1982
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.09 — 760,349 ratings — published 1966
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,499 ratings — published 2008
A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.13 — 835,275 ratings — published 1989
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,069 ratings — published 1946
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.46 — 921,699 ratings — published 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,816,047 ratings — published 2018
The Water Is Wide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,888 ratings — published 1972
Tobacco Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.71 — 16,213 ratings — published 1932
A Summons to Memphis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,999 ratings — published 1986
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,227 ratings — published 2010
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.98 — 342,627 ratings — published 1947
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,578 ratings — published 2011
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 3.86 — 572,215 ratings — published 1996
All Over But the Shoutin' (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,971 ratings — published 1997
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.02 — 106,540 ratings — published 1984
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,448 ratings — published 1960
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,730 ratings — published 1965
Father and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,030 ratings — published 1996
The Great Santini (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as southern-writers)
avg rating 4.16 — 35,438 ratings — published 1976
“And then we had the wake. It was lovely with tears and laughter, roar and uproar. Nobody died. Well, only a little. We all died a little. But death mostly let us be. Death seemed to think there was, for us, a fate worse than it. Which left us alive in the end, and so very, very drunk.”
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“He tried the crank radio, a pirate station out of Memphis. Static and guitar scratch, the straggling notes of a song about home.”
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