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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,114,110 ratings — published 1960
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,094,509 ratings — published 2009
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,271,099 ratings — published 1936
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 85 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,788,467 ratings — published 2018
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.91 — 305,551 ratings — published 1994
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,372,439 ratings — published 2001
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,246 ratings — published 1937
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.72 — 194,059 ratings — published 1930
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.86 — 201,386 ratings — published 1929
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,360 ratings — published 1982
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.31 — 296,428 ratings — published 2015
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.06 — 459,137 ratings — published 2016
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 43 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,921 ratings — published 1998
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,353,133 ratings — published 1885
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.00 — 152,143 ratings — published 2017
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.26 — 221,141 ratings — published 1986
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.86 — 571,563 ratings — published 1996
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,607 ratings — published 1936
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.26 — 338,745 ratings — published 2014
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,911 ratings — published 1940
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,491 ratings — published 1932
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.27 — 334,686 ratings — published 1987
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.89 — 308,003 ratings — published 1980
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.24 — 312,007 ratings — published 2010
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.89 — 252,496 ratings — published 1997
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,075 ratings — published 2011
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.02 — 106,299 ratings — published 1984
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.93 — 399,944 ratings — published 2018
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.41 — 598,751 ratings — published 2024
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,476 ratings — published 1987
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.40 — 758,696 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.83 — 514,712 ratings — published 2016
The Moviegoer (Vintage International)
by (shelved 27 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.64 — 32,003 ratings — published 1961
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.46 — 900,125 ratings — published 2022
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,044,605 ratings — published 1876
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.81 — 39,935 ratings — published 1952
Mudbound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,212 ratings — published 2008
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,176 ratings — published 2022
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 24 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.25 — 325,203 ratings — published 2019
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.78 — 336,799 ratings — published 2020
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,497 ratings — published 1955
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,842 ratings — published 1946
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,137 ratings — published 1992
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.07 — 110,433 ratings — published 2007
All Over But the Shoutin' (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,851 ratings — published 1997
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.11 — 883,012 ratings — published 2020
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.29 — 535,226 ratings — published 2019
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,097 ratings — published 2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as the-south)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,086 ratings — published 2010
South of Broad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as the-south)
avg rating 3.88 — 51,998 ratings — published 2009
“For many years, Blanche worried that it was fear which sometimes made her reluctant to meet white people's eyes, particularly on days when she had the loneliest or the unspecified blues. She'd come to understand that her desire was to avoid pain, a pain so old, so deep, its memory was carried not in her mind, but in her bones. Some days she simply didn't want to look into the eyes of people likely raised to hate, disdain, or fear anyone who looked like her. It was not always useful to be in touch with race memory. The thought of her losses sometimes sucked the joy from her life for days at a time.”
― Blanche on the Lam
― Blanche on the Lam
“I had lived too long in states where you could - for the space of one blink, one breath - pretend there was no difference between white and any other color. My mother said that this belief was more dangerous than the in-your-face racism of the South.”
― A Study in Honor
― A Study in Honor
